PEOPLE
Who was the last czar of Russia?
Nicholas II
What desert covers about 70 percent of Turkmenistan?
Karakum
"The Roof of the World" refers to....
Pamir Mountains
The system in which individuals must give up control of all property to the government is CAPITALISM?
False; Collectivism
What war was fought over Russia's attempts to invade Ottoman territory?
Crimean
Who is the man whose writings promoted Communism?
Karl Marx
What is the name of the coldest city in the world?
Yakutsk
"One of the majority" refers to....
Bolshevik
The Russian president whose goal was to reclaim all the land that had ever been part of the Soviet Union was Vladimir Putin.
True
Who was the Soviet leader who supported the building of the Berlin Wall?
Nikita Khrushchev
Who was last leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is the name of the world's largest landmass?
Eurasia
"Sleeping land" refers to....
Siberia
The primary religion in the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia is Catholicism.
False; Islam
What is the name of Europe's longest river that flows through Russia, and the deepest freshwater lake in the world also located in Russia?
Volga River; Lake Baikal
Who was the Soviet leader during the Great Purge?
Joseph Stalin
What is the name of the world's largest landlocked country?
Kazakhstan
"Land of the Free" refers to....
Uzbekistan
Vladimir the Saint was the man who introduced the Russians to Eastern Orthodoxy.
True
Who is the first true national leader of a united Russia?
Ivan III
Who was the leader of the first Communist state in history?
Vladimir Lenin
What is one of the world's largest regions of continuously level land?
The West Siberian Plain
"Switzerland of Central Asia" refers to....
Kyrgyzstan
Gorbachev's plan to restructure the Soviet Union's business and economy was know as glasnost.
False; perestroika
What are three hardships people in the Soviet Union faced under the Communist government?
-People were told where to work and live
-Severely limited freedoms
-Living arrangements were poorly built/crowded
-Travel restrictions
-Government controlled education
-Groceries were scarce