Musical Terms
Pitched sounds arranged in musical time; the primary musical line that catches one's ear.
What is a melody?
The leader of the Russian Revolution, whose mausoleum is still on the Red Square today.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
A political ideology based on the ideas of Adam Smith and free market exchange.
What is capitalism?
This was the year that the Berlin Wall fell.
What happened in 1989?
This region is located East of the Ural Mountains.
What is Siberia?
What is Electronic Dance Music?
This leader from Georgia led the Soviet Union during WWII, known as the "Man of Steel."
Who was Joseph Stalin?
A political ideology based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
What is communism?
This was the year in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
What happened in 1991?
These are the three Baltic countries.
What are Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
This genre is often features saxophones, brass instruments, a rhythm section, and sometimes a banjo or clarinet.
What is jazz?
This leader oversaw the creation of the Soviet space program.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
What is State Socialism?
This was the year of the Chornobyl disaster.
What happened in 1986?
These countries are located in the Caucasus region.
What are Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan?
This is a subgenre of rock, known for its fast tempo, piercing sounds, and rebellious character.
What is punk?
The last leader of the USSR; he oversaw the period of "restructuring" (perestroika) and "openness" (glasnost').
Who was Mikahail Gorbachev?
Indirect conflict between two rival nations by supporting two other nations at war.
What is a Proxy War?
Boris Yeltsin became the first president of the Russian Federation on this date.
What happened on December 25, 1991?
These are the five Central Asian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.
What are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan?
This term describes the quality of a given pitch; i.e. how we tell the difference between a trumpet and a violin playing the same note.
What is timbre?
This leader was in office from 1964-1982, a period known as "stagnation."
Who was Leonid Brezhnev?
These were the countries of the Eastern Bloc, located behind the "iron curtain."
What are Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland? (Yugoslavia and Albania are non-aligned)
The Estonian SSR was the first to declare itself a sovereign state on this date.
What happened on November 16, 1988?
These former Soviet countries in Europe are the last to still use the Cyrillic script.
What are Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia?