Russia Flashcard

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This river is known as the longest river in Europe located in Russia and a major shipping route and source of hydroelectric power.

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Volga River

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These mountains separate Europe and Asia

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Ural

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Capital of Russia

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Moscow

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Cold empty land of barren plains and endless forests.

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Siberia

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After Ivan III seized control from the Mongols, in the 1540s, his grandson Ivan IV crowned himself czar. Ivan IV was called?

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Ivan the Terrible

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During their reign, Muscovy (Russia) built a huge empire and Russia became a world power?

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Czar Peter the Great and later Czarina Catherine the Great

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In 1917, the czar lost support and was forced to give up the throne. This communist group seized power in the Russian revolution and later created the Soviet Union in 1922.

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The Bolsheviks

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First leader of the Soviet Union

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Vladimir Lenin

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After Lenin's death in 1924, this dictator ruled as a brutal dictator of the Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin

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The Soviet Union sent people that were against the communist government into Soviet labor camps called?

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Gulags