phys geo
tsarist Russia
USSR
Fall of USSR
Random
100
Divides Europe and Asia
What is Ural Mts
100
First Tsar
What is Ivan IV (Terrible)
100
Most brutal Soviet leader, in power during WWII and beginning of the Cold War
What is Josef Stalin
100
Current president of Russia
What is Putin
100
Location of one of the world's most deadly nuclear explosions
What is Chernobyl, Ukraine
200
Dry grass land south (Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan)
What is steppe
200
type of government in tsarist Russia
What is absolute monarch
200
Another name for Lenin's communist party
What is Bolshevik
200
Policy of openness instituted by Gorbechev to try and save the Soviet Union
What is glasnost
200
Area in the trans-Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) that is fragmented and referred to as a
What is shatterbelt
300
Separates Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
What is Caucasus
300
Lower than a peasant
What is serf
300
Last Soviet Leader
What is Mikhail Gorbechev
300
Approximate year the Soviet Union ceased to exist
What is 1991
300
Rich black topsoil on the North European plain
What is chernozem
400
Body of water that shrunk and was heavily polluted with pesticides and fertilizers during Soviet times.
What is Aral Sea
400
Russia's last Tsar who abdicated his throne
What is Nicolas II
400
Siberian work camp
What is gulag
400
New countries that were formed after the fall of the Soviet Union matched
What is ethnic boundaries
400
Period beginning at the end of WWII and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall
What is Cold War
500
Oldest and deepest lake in the world (jewel of Siberia), formed by glaciers
What is lake Baikal
500
Justification for expanding the Russian Empire
What is spreading Eastern Orthodox Christianity, uniting Slavs
500
Policy to restructure the Soviet economy from command to private ownership
What is perestroika
500
Allowing for multiple political parties and free and fair elections
What is democratization
500
Three "proxy wars" fought during the Cold War.
What is Vietnam, invasion of Afghanistan, Korean war, Cuban missile Crisis
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