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A class of wealthy businessman who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s
Oligarchs
Country invaded by SU in 1980
Afghanistan
Last tsar of Russia
Nicolas II
First president of Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin
Does Poland border Russia?
Yes
Russian word describing Gorbachev political reforms
Perestroika
Main security agency of the Soviet Union
KGB
What was nickname ot tsar Ivan (1547-1584)
The Terrible
His real name was Dzhugashvili
Stalin
Name 3 Baltic States - former Soviet republics
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
A system of Soviet forced labor camps
GULAGs
First man in space
Yuri Gagrin
Name of false pretender to Russian throne, killed in 1605
Dmitry the False
President of Russian Federation 2008-2012
Dmitry Medvedev
What was the name of city of St. Petersburg in Soviet Union?
Leningrad
First artificial satellite in the world
Sputnik1
A forced and brutal agricultural reform in 1930s.
Collectivization
He took power in SU after Khruschhev
Brezhnev
Russian opposition leader and political prisoner who died in prision in 2024
Alexei Navalny
The year of Napoleon's invasion in Russia
1812
Political slogan for openness and transparency by Gorbachev in mid 1980s
Glasnost
Estimate World War II losses of the Soviet Union
More than 20 millions
That Tsar was killed in bomb assasination in 1881
Alexander II
Stalin's main opponent in power struggle in 1930s.
Trotsky
First country that declared independence from SU in 1988
Estonia