| A | B |
|---|
| Alexander II | Russian Tsar who freed the serfs in 1860s |
| Catherine the Great | she got a warm-water port for Russia |
| Peter the Great | modernized/westernized Russia |
| Ivan the Terrible | expanded Russia to Siberia, built St. Basel's, but went nuts after his wife died |
| Karl Marx | wanted workers to unite & overthrow owners - got communist dictatorship |
| Romanovs | the ruling monarchy of Russia |
| Lenin | the father of Soviet communism |
| Stalin | ruthletss dicator of Soviet Union - but got economy going |
| Khrushchev | leader of USSR - 1950s & early 1960s - tried put missiles in Cuba |
| Brezhnev | hard line Soviet - pro-communist leader of USSR - 1970s & early 1980s |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader/reformer - introduced glasnost & perestroika |
| Boris Yeltsin | leader of Russia - 1990s - oversaw transition from command economy to capitalism |
| Vladimir Putin | present leader of Russia - former KGB agent |
| Rasputin | Russian monk with hypnotic healing powers |
| Alexander Dubcek | tried reform communist govt. in Czechoslovakia 1968 |
| Vaclav Havel | ruler of Czech Republic - former playwright |
| Lech Walesa | Polish person - fought against communism in Poland |
| Pope John Paul II | Roman Catholic leader - spoke out against communism in eastern Europe |
| Nicholas II | the last Tsar/monarch to rule Russia |
| Nicolae Ceacescu | ruthless communist dictator of Romania |
