Russian Geography
This type of climate makes up the majority of Russia's landmass. (use letter)
D Climate
This concept is based on land being owned by the state and farmed by individuals who live on the land and cannot profit from it. Often leads to starvation.
Collectivized agriculture
The man responsible for dissolving the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This territory once belonged to Ukraine but was taken by Russia in 2014 claiming it was protecting Russian citizens living in the territory after protests erupted in Ukraine about trade deals with Russia.
Crymea
The main reason that many "boomers" of Russia want communism back.
Failure of the pension system
Ural Mountains
This type of economy involves the state setting prices for goods, negating the concepts of supply and demand.
Command economy
The first leader of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
This nation has territory within it that once belonged to Armenia.
Azerbaijan
This term refers to the small majority population of people that own the majority of land and control most of the economy in Russia
Oligarchs
This lake is the largest lake by volume and has more water than all of the Great Lakes combined.
Lake Baikal
This concept was put in place by Stalin and had the goal of producing all goods "in house" (within the Soviet Union) to stop the need for trade and dependence on capitalism.
5 year plans.
This Soviet leader is responsible for purges in which a significant number of people were either killed or sent to Gulags.
Joseph Stalin
This landlocked nation has really bad geography and the majority of its population follows Christianity.
Armenia
This group of people were able to benefit the most when the state started selling land after the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia starting converting over to a capitalistic system
Criminals / Mobsters
This is something that Russia does not want to combat as much as the rest of the world because it will economically benefit them.
Climate change
This was the world's worst nuclear disaster that not only deeply affected the area surrounding it, but also all around the world from wind carrying the nuclear fallout.
Chernobyl - Ukraine
The leader that took over Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. He took the brunt of the issues that came from the collapse.
Boris Yeltsin
This state wanted to join the EU and NATO but was denied. Russia invaded this nation in 2022.
Ukraine
This statistic highlights a significant problem in Russia (the main statistic discussed in class today).
Crime rate
Translation means black earth/soil. This word refers to the soil underneath permafrost in Russia which is some of the most fertile in the world.
Chernozem
A very costly period of time for the all parties involved, this war involved multiple proxy wars and economic competition between the USSR and United States
The Cold War
This leader is essentially a tyrant and changed Russia's constitution to keep his power indefinitely.
Vladimir Lenin
This place was not a Soviet Republic but wanted its independence after the USSR collapsed.
Chechnya
Banned under communism because it is a strong unifying force, this came back in full swing after the USSR collapsed.
Religion