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Soviet Era
People
Water Systems
100
Kind of economy in which government does not interfere in free enterprise.
What is a market economy?
100
Kind of economy in which the government makes key economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
100
Country controlled by the Soviet Union.
What is a satellite?
100
Current President of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
Deepest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
200
Kind of economy in which government supports free enterprise.
What is a mixed economy?
200
Government encouraged people to speak Russian and follow the Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is Russification?
200
Small farm in the Soviet Union that was worked by farmers who shared in the farm's production and profits.
What is a kolkhoz?
200
Advocated a classless society and equal share of wealth.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
Salt water lake located in a deep depression.
What is the Caspian Sea?
300
Change from state owned companies to private ownership.
What is privatization?
300
Supreme Ruler.
What is a czar?
300
Large farm in the Soviet Union owned and run by the state.
What is a sovkhoz?
300
Leader of the Bolsheviks when they seized control of Russia in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
Provides Russia with a warm water outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Black Sea?
400
Virtually enslaved workforce bound to the land and under the control of nobility.
What is a serf?
400
Ruling house or continuing family of rulers.
What is a dynasty?
400
Government believed that art should glorify the government's achievements.
What is social realism?
400
First elected President of Russia.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
400
Links Moscow to the Baltic and Caspian Sea.
What is the Volga River?
500
Rich black soil.
What is chernozem?
500
Fortress filled with churches and palaces, now used as Russian Federation headquarters.
What is the Kremlin?
500
Soviet Union's intellectual ellite.
What is Soviet intelligentsia?
500
Endorsed by Putin to become President of Russia from 2008-2012.
Who is Dmitry Medvedev?
500
Forms the border between Russia and China.
What is Amur River?