| A | B |
|---|
| perestroika | restructuring of the economy |
| glasnost | openess |
| czar | the emperor of Russia |
| consumer goods | products such as household goods |
| heavy industry | products such as military and machinery |
| light industry | household products like clothes and furniture |
| tundra | cold treeless plains |
| taiga | vast evergreen forest |
| permafrost | permanently frozen ground |
| communism | an authoritarian political system in which the government controls the economu |
| command economy | the national government owns all the land, resources, industry, farm and railroads |
| free enterprise system | businesses are privately owned, operating to earn a profit and do so with little government control |
| ethnic groups | people who have the same culture, language and history |
| steppe | vast treeless plains containing many grasses |
| nature preserve | land set aside by the government to protect plants and animals |
| fault | openings in the earths crust |
| food processing | the preparation of food for sale |
| oases | fertile desert areas watered by underground springs |
| nomads | people who moved with their flocks in search of pasture |
