| A | B |
|---|
| missionalry | people who move to another area to spread their religion |
| czar | and emperor or king in Russia |
| serf | farm laborers who could be bought or sold with the land |
| communist state | the government controls the economy and society |
| collectivization | a system in which small farms were combined into large, factorylike farms run by the government |
| Cold War | a time when verbal threats were made between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
| glasnost | Russian term meaning openness |
| perestroika | Russian term meaning restructuring |
| coup | an overthrow of the government by a military force |
| oral tradition | passing stories by word of mouth from generation to generation |
| nationalism | feelings of loyalty toward one's country |
| autonomy | independence from the Soviet Union |
| Ivan the Great (III) | prince of Muscovy who declared independence from Mongol rule |
| Czar Alexander II | freed the serfs in 1861 and began to modernize Russia |
| Czar Nicholas II | the last czar of Russia |
| Vladimir Lenin | created a new nation called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of Soviet Union during World War II |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Started reform movements in Russia like glasnost and perestroika |
| Boris Yeltsin | first elected President of Russia after its collapse in 1991 |
| Vladimir Putin | currently the President of Russia |
