| A | B |
|---|
| Perestokia | Economic Restructuring |
| Glastnos | Openness |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independant States |
| CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Trotsky | Founder of the Red Guards, International Communist |
| Lenin | Leader of the Communist Revolution |
| Primakov | Current Prime Minister of Russia |
| Stalin | Dictator during 30's and 40's |
| Shock Therapy | Economic Reform |
| Rubel | Russian Currency |
| Gorbachev | Responsible for Soviet collapse |
| Moscow | Capital of Russia |
| St. Petersburg | Imperial Capital of Russia, 2nd largest city |
| MarxLenin | Soviet Communist political theory |
| Democratization | Free elections in Russia |
| August Coup | Attempted overthrow of Gorbechev, 1991 |
| Partocracy | Total control of government by CPSU |
| Bolshevik | Revolutionary Communist Party member |
| Menshevik | White Russian moderates |
| Intelligentsia | Educated elite in Russia |
| Russian Federation | New government created under the 1993 Constitution |
| Domestic Policy Issues | Health Care, Economy, Ethnic tensions,political corruption |
| Foriegn Policy Issues | relationship with NATO and U.N. |
| Duma | Russian legislative house |
| Chechnya | Area of Violent Ethnic conflict in 1996 |
| Market Economy | Private property, competition, profit |
| Komosomol | Communist Youth Group |
| General Secretary | Leader of the CPSU |
| Warsaw Pact | NATO equivalent |
| Ecological Issues | Aral Sea, Chernobyl, deforestation |
