Early Russia
Geography
Communism
The New Russian Revolution
Terms
100
Long ago, Russia was home to scattered band of these people.
What are Slavic people?
100
Russia spans these two continents.
What are Asia and Europe?
100
In 1917, the czar was overthrown by this event in history.
What are Communist Revolution?
100
Gorbachev tried to change the Soviet system with this policy that means openness.
What is glasnost?
100
This is a king in Russia.
What is a czar?
200
Legend has it that certain Slavic groups invited these people to be their rulers.
What are the Vikings?
200
This is the kind of land you find most in Russia.
What is huge, low, plains?
200
This group believes that the gov’t should own and run everything for the common good.
What are communists?
200
Peristroika was a policy Gorbachev tried to use to improve the Soviet and mean this.
What is restructuring? People were allowed to start private businesses.
200
This is a permanently frozen layer of soil just beneath the earth's surface.
What is permafrost?
300
The first Russian empire rose in the late 800s in this city.
What is Kiev?
300
This section of Russia is freezing cold.
What is Siberia?
300
This was Russia's name after winning the Communist Revolution.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union)?
300
After the Communist party lost control, each republic declared this.
What is their independence?
300
This is a peasant who cannot legally leave the land on which he or she works.
What is a serf?
400
From 800s to 1917, the government of Russia was a ________.
What is a monarchy?
400
This is the type of land that is dry, flat, and covered with grass found in Russia.
What is steppe?
400
This was not introduced by the Communist: industry health care technology freedom of speech education
What is freedom of speech?
400
Russian arts include all of the following except icon painting classical music great novels Socialist Realism paintings gymnastics
What is gymnastics?
400
This is a large farm run by a group pf people working together under government supervision.
What is a collective farm?
500
Russian czars ruled from this ocean to this body of water.
What is the Artic Ocean to the Black Sea?
500
This marks a division between two bodies of land in Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
500
Under Communism, sports were given special importance. For this reason, Russia often won top medals in this international competition.
What are the Olympics?
500
This was the reason Russia was no longer a Communist country in 1991.
What is Gorbachev stopped down?
500
This is a sudden violent overthrow of top government leaders by another group of leaders.
What is a coup?
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