Russia Chapter Test

Abolished serfdom

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Putin

• Czar Alexander II

Soviet leader who allowed more social and political reforms

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Nicholas II

Brutal soviet dictator

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Nicholas II

Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Nicholas II

When did the United States and the Soviet Union come close to war during the Cold War?

• when Khrushchev first came to power

• immediately following World War II

• during the Cuban Missile Crisis

• when Americans landed on the moon

Why is it difficult to call Russia’s federal republic a full democracy?

• The president refuses to modernize the Russian economy.

• The president is unable to put down the Chechen rebellion.

• The president was elected for a third term.

• The president still maintains great control over the country.

Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold

• oligarch

• collectivization

• czar

• serf

Ruler of Russia before 1917

• oligarch

• collectivization

• czar

• serf

Siberia’s tundra contains about 20 percent of all the world’s trees.

• True

• False

What is the longest river in Europe and Russia’s most important waterway?

• Yenisey

• Volga

• Ob

• Lena