Population & Culure
People that share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of these things.
What is Ethnic Group?
Former term for Russian supreme ruler.
What is a Czar?
This lies in the Southern Part of Russia: rich black soil.
What is Chernozem?
a change to private ownership of state-owned companies.
What is privatization?
Chemicals used to kill crop-damaging insects, rodents, and other pests.
What are pesticides?
Self ruling.
What is sovereignty?
Peasants who became virtually enslaved to the land and under the control of nobility.
What is a serf?
What is permafrost?
Farms worked by farmers who shared, to a degree, in the farm's production and profits.
What are Kolkhozes?
Material contaminated by residue from the generation of nuclear energy and weapons
What are radioactive materials?
The belief that there is no God or other supreme being.
What is atheism?
A belief that calls for greater economic equality in society.
What is socialism?
Western Russia's fourth-longest river in the country.
What is the Volga River?
Where the government makes key economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
These are the by-products of producing nuclear power and weapons.
What is nuclear Waste?
During Czarist times, Jews could settle only in certain areas, could not own land, and were often targets or organized persecution and massacres.
What are pogroms?
A philosophy that called for the violent overthrow of government and the creation of a society led by workers.
What is communism?
In the Northern region of Russia, this is a vast, treeless plain.
What is the tundra?
Illegal trade in which scarce goods are sold at high prices.
This is the world's largest and deepest lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
The Russian intellectual elite.
What is intelligentsia?
Encouraged people to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
What is Russification?
The boreal forest belt that covers two-fifths of western Russia and extends into much of Siberia
What is the Taiga?
Goods needed for everyday life.
What are consumer goods?
When the Soviet (Russian) government limited individual artistic expression.
What is social realism?