A system of public ownership of all property and a classless society with equal sharing of wealth.
What is communism?
100
A natural boundary between Russia and its southern neighbors.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
100
A title held by the ruler of Russia before the 1917 revolution.
What is a czar?
100
The rich, black soil that supports agriculture in the southern part of the Northern European Plain.
What is chernozem?
100
Current President of the Russian Federation.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
200
An ideological, economic and political conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
What is the Cold War?
200
This mountain is located in the Caucasus Mountains and is a popular destination for skiers and hikers.
What is Mount Elbrus?
200
A Ukrainian town where a nuclear accident occurred in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
200
The trade of consumer goods not available under government sanctioned channels.
What is a black market?
200
1700s Russian ruler who expanded Russia's empire, including a warm water port on the Black Sea.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
A nineteenth century policy requiring everyone to convert to Christianity and speak Russian.
What is Russification?
300
Natural barrier that marks the traditional separation of Eastern Russian and Siberian Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
300
A Russian word meaning "forest," used to describe the northern biome that includes broad expanses of coniferous evergreen trees.
What is taiga?
300
A country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviets after 1945.
What is a satellite state?
300
This last leader of the Soviet Russia introduced reform programs that brought an end to the Soviet Union and its political domination of Eastern Europe that had lasted since the end of World War II.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
A policy instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev that promoted greater political and social openness in Russia.
What is glasnost?
400
Longest waterway in Europe and is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power.
What is the Volga River?
400
The German philosopher responsible for the development of communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
The system in which businesses are owned privately, not by the state and trade is competitive instead of completely regulated.
What is a market economy?
400
1600s Russian ruler that strengthened the military, expanded Russia's territory to make "a window on the West."
Who is Peter the Great?
500
A policy of reform and restructuring of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980s
What is perestroika?
500
The world's oldest and deepest body of fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
500
The process of changing an economy away from state ownership of companies and industries to a competitive, market economy.
What is privatization?
500
A word meaning "north" used to describe the huge and environmentally important evergreen forests found primarily in the Russian Core and Canada.
What is boreal?
500
This man seized control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin and is remembered for his ruthless style of leadership and successfully guiding the Soviet Union through World War II.