| A | B |
|---|
| atheism | belief - there is no god |
| pogroms | organized persecution and killing of Jews (religion-Judism) |
| Boris Yeltsin | first president of the Russian republic |
| Soviet era | Soviet Union controlled most of Eastern Europe with communism |
| Taiga | boreal forest belt-covers 2/5 of Western Russia |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | instituted perestroika-economic restructuring and glasnost-political openness |
| Cold War | struggle between US and Russia for world power using propaganda |
| Black Market | illegal trade-goods are sold at high prices |
| Communism | Government with a society led by workers |
| Command economy | government owns factories, banks farms, etc. |
| Permafrost | permanently frozen layer of soil |
| Stalin | Leader after Lenin - took control of factories -killed millions |
| Bolsheviks | revolutionary group led by Lenin; wanted communism |
| Lake Baikal | oldest and deepest lake - 1/5 of world's freshwater |
| Black Earth Belt | fertile band from Ukraine to Siberia (good crops) |
| Ivan IV | Russia's first czar (ruler) |
| Slavs | Largest ethnic group in Russia |
| Western Russia | Most people live here in Russia |
| Eastern Orthodox | Largest religious group |
| Karl Marx | German philosopher- classless society, share wealth |
