economy and politics
What major transportation project allowed people to move into Russia’s Asian territory?
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad
Russia Ruler before the 1917 revolution
What is a Czar
Who was able to take control of the government as a result of the Russian Revolution?
Who is Vladimir Lenin
Contaminated by residue from generation of nuclear energy and weapons
What is Radioactive Material
Ground that is frozen all year long
What is permafrost
Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic reform
what is Perestrokia
During what year did the Russian Revolution start
What is 1917
Who took control of the Soviet Union in 1939 when WW II broke out?
Who is Stalin
Which nuclear disaster released 400 times more radioactivity than Hiroshima?
What is Chernobyl
rich, fertile topsoil on the European plain
What is chernozem
Mikahil Gorbachev's program of political openness
What is Glasnost
What is the major religion in Russia?
Which leader gave the Soviet Union more political and economic freedoms in the 1980’s?
Who is Gorbachev
By-products of atomic energy or the making of atomic weapons
what is Nuclear Waste
extremes of temperature, and little rainfall, in the center of a large landmass
What is contentinality
Contry controlled by another, stronger country
What is a Satellite country
How has the Russian economy been since 1998?
what is it slowly recovered
What happened in Chechnya after the violence and wars with Russia?
what is It remained a republic of Russia with some autonomy under a new constitution
What are the dominant climate zones in Russia and the Republics?
What are humid continental and Subarctic
Links Moscow to a Pacific port
What is the Trans-Siberian railway
Even after the new constitution and partial autonomy, what challenge does Chechnya still face?
What is Recovering from past violence and instability
Why did the Soviet era leave a legacy of environmental pollution
what is Soviet leaders' priority was to industrialize and they disregarded the damage it was causeing