Question
click below
click below
Question
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Russia Test
Ch. 14,15,16
Question | Answer |
---|---|
The __ is a layer of subsoil that is always frozen. | Permafrost |
Progroms were the planned persecution and massacre of... | Jewish People |
A sovkhoz was a ... | Large farm run like a factory with farm workers recieving wages. |
Who was Leo Tolstoy? | A writer that wrote poems about Russian life. |
The Kamchatka Peninsula is... | A peninsula that is a region of Siberia on the Eastern part of Russia. |
What is the taiga? | A forest belt that covers 2/5 of European Russia and extends into much of Siberia. |
The term tundra refers to a... | Vast, treeless plain that dominates the Russian landscapes. |
Russia has __ because most of the country is far from any ocean. | Continental Climate |
The main idea behind __ is that economic wealth should be distributed more evenly. | Communism |
The move from __ is known as privatization. | Government ownership |
Most rivers in Russia are __ much of the year. | Frozen |
Soviet industrial growth led to serious... | Power for the Russians in wars. |
What is a serf? | An enslaved workforce bound to the land and under the control of nobility |
In general Russia has a __ climate | Subarctic |
After the Soviet Union broke up, the government encouraged... | Independance and freedom |
Perestroika: | A policy of economic restuction. |
Kolkhoz: | A small farm worked by farmers who shared, to a degree, the farm's profits and production. |
Kievan Rus: | A loose organization of city-states ruled by princes and started by Bulgaria. |
Slavs: | A ethnic group in Russia that includes Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, and other Europeans. |
Galsnot: | A policy of greater political openess. |
Satellite State: | Counties controlled by the Soviet Union. |
Bolsheviks: | A revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin. |
Socialist Realism: | Artists had the duty to incorperate famous Russian events and eras into art. |
Chernozem: | Rich, black soil in Southern Russia. |
Catherine the Great: | An empress who in the 1700's expanded Russia, and got a warm-water port on the Black Sea. |
Ethnic Group: | A group of people who share a common ancestry, language, religion, or set of customs, or a combination of these things. |
Communism: | A philosophy developed by Karl Marx's ideas that called for a violent overthrow of government and the creation of a new society led by workers. |
Black Market: | An illegal trade in which scarce or illegal goods are sold at prices higher than the government. |
Czar: | Supreme ruler |
Nuclear Waste: | The byproducts of producing nuclear power. |
Cold War: | The struggle between the two opposing systems-communist and capitalist-for world influence and power. |
Permafrost: | A layer of subsoil that is always frozen. |
Atheism: | The belief that there is no god or supreme bieng. |
Chernobyl: | A town 60 miles north of Keiv where a nuclear spill occured and killed 8,000 people. |