Russia Vocabulary

rich, black topsoil found in the Northern European Plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine

• Chernozem
• Taiga
• collective farms
• exclave

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

• Balkanization
• Exclave
• Totalitarian System
• Continentality

Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian government during WWI

• Bolsheviks (Reds)
• Cold War
• Perestroika
• Tundra

the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II to 1989

• Cold War
• Russian Revolution
• Five Year Plan
• Ethnic Group

a large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms utilized in communism

• collective farms
• steppe
• chernozem
• shatterbelt

Climate factor with the effect of extreme variation in temperature within the interior/central portions of a continent

• Continentality
• Shatterbelt
• exclave
• steppe

Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics

• ethnic group
• sovereign nation
• nationalize
• tsar/czar

the combined continent of Europe and Asia

• Eurasia
• Transcaucasia
• Continentality
• Glasnost

a part of a country that is separated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory.

• exclave
• Shatterbelt
• sovereign nation
• nationalize

Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. Tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine.

• Five Year Plan
• Trans-Siberian Railroad
• Russian Revolution
• Continentality