silkroad - Ideas and goods were spread along this, serf - a peasant legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord, Caesar - Tsar comes from the Latin word, Peter the Great - Tsar who worked to westernize Russia and built the new capital of St. Petersburg was, Catherine the Great - She greatly expanded Russia's territory., World War I - This event caused so much unrest that it helped to bring about the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik - A political group who called for workers to control all private property, communist - The state (government) controlled all economic decisions. This is what type of economy?, JosefStalin - brutal tactics to maintain power by crushing all opposition and sending millions to prison and labor camps, industrialization - economic change made by Stalin in/to Russia, troops - Soviet Union came to dominate Eastern Europe by keeping ____________ in the region and setting up communist governments, restructuring - meant reduced government control over the economy, fellapart - In 1991, what was the unexpected result of Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms? The Soviet Union _______________ ______________, poverty - President Putin's economic reforms helped Russia by lowering the _______________ rate., Russia - largest country in the world, Taiga - A thick forest of coniferous trees that covers Siberia, Siberia - The cold climate and permafrost make the construction of roads and buildings difficult here, Slavs - 80 percent of Russian citizens, Islam - the main religions followed in Northern Eurasia are Eastern Orthodox Christianity and ________, freespeech - Vladamir Putin has put limits on , opposition - Vladamir Putin also put limits on, command - The former Soviet Union had the central government making most economic decisions in a ________ economy, naturalgas - resources have been the main contributors to Russia’s wealth. Oil and ________ ___________, skilledworkforce - Due to its strong education system, Russia has a, coldwar - Long conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, USSR - abbreviation for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Totalitarian - The type of government that has total control over every aspect of public and private life; often used in a dictatorship, propaganda - Information, often misleading, that deliberately tries to promote a particular point of view. Much of this was conveyed on posters in the Soviet Union., Ural - mountain range separates the European part of Russia from the Asian part of Russia. ____ Mountains,

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