Geography
This mountain range is the natural border between Europe and Asia, located in Russia:
What are the Ural Mountains?
These Swedish Vikings ruled over Slavic lands, known as Kievan Rus, for centuries.
HINT: they were also the bodyguards of the Byzantine Eastern Roman) Emperors.
Who are the Varangians?
First dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
First president of the Russian Federation.
What is Boris Yeltsin?
A system of government in which the people have power, electing officials to represent them in government.
What is democracy/republic/democratic republic?
This lake has ~20% of the world's freshwater, located in Russia.
What is Lake Baikal?
Russian word for 'emperor'
What is Tsar/Czar?
Second dictator of the Soviet Union, known as the 'Man of Steel.'
Who is Josef Stalin?
Second and fourth president of the Russian Federation, has become a dictator, rigged elections, invaded neighbors and oppressed the Russian people and promoted an oligarchy system.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
A system of government in which one person holds all the power through undemocratic means.
Ex: Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Putin
What is a dictatorship/authoritarianism?
Asian Russia is more commonly known as...
What is Siberia?
These were the peasants during the Russian Empire, eventually emancipated [freed] by Alexander II in 1861.
Who are serfs?
This was the economic model the Soviet Union used, where all production and allocation of resources was decided upon by the central government.
What is Communism/Command Economy?
Last leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This system of government, usually associated with dictatorships [ex: Russia], is where a small group of people control the government.
What is an oligarchy?
Due to the sheer size of Russia, the country is largely connected by these.
Allows the transportation of goods, materials and people.
What are railroads?
In a feudal society [feudalism pyramid]. this social class was on top and this other social class was on the bottom.
What is the king?/What are the peasants?
Political prisoners, criminals, and more were sent to these Soviet labor-prison camps, known for their brutality.
Many were in Siberia or other inhospitable parts of Russia.
What are the gulags?
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the quality of life, financial stability, and life expectancy experienced this.
What is a massive decline?
This ethnicity includes the Russian people, and a lot of Eastern and Southeastern white Europeans.
What are Slavs?
This is the cold, frozen-like deserts, in the far north of Russia where little vegetation [plants] grows.
What is the tundra?
Last emperor of Russia, killed alongside his family by the Communists.
Who is Nicholas II?
This wall was built in Germany's capital city, Berlin, during the Cold War, separating the democratic West Berlin and communist East Berlin. Designed to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Soviet military alliance between Communist nations collapsed at the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This is the specific sub-ethnicity of the Russian people.
What are East Slavs?
Capital city of Russia.
What is Moscow?
This event by the Communists overthrew the Russian Empire in 1917, killing the royal family [the Romanovs], and saw to the formation of the Soviet Union.
What is the October Revolution?
This is what the USSR stands for.
Full name, not shortened one.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
These two policies were to reform the Soviet Union in the 1980s, initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
What were Glasnost and Perestroika?
This is the predominant [main] Christian denomination in Russia.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?/What is the Russian Orthodox Church?