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| a vast collection of political prisoners in which inmates often disappeared or spent years far removed from their families and home communities. |
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| The soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union, also changed the region’s human geography |
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drain-leaving of young, well educated, upwardly mobile Russians, for better job opportunities outside the region |
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| soviet union planned and saw great economic and political advantages in urbanization. Without the soviet union, the growth in the cities has continued as economic growth has concentrated in the nation’s largest urban areas. |
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a. a style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challengeing nature or struggling against capitalism. |
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| a faction of Russian communists representing the interests of the industrial workers, seized power within the country. In 1917 after fall of Russian empire. |
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| in the soviet union, each major nationality was to receive its own provided is was situated on the external borders. |
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| solution to give minority republics recognition, creation of this of varying sizes that gave special recognition to smaller ethnic homelands within the different republics |
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| a portion of a country’s territory that lies outside of its contiguous land area |
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| word used to describe the figurative boundary established between their European allies and more democratic nations. |
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a. escalating military competition between US and Soviet Union (Russia) 1948 - 1991 |
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| greater openness, presented by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1980s |
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a. planned economic restructuring |
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| the return of nuclear weapons from outlying republics to Russian control and their partial dismantling. Completed in Russia during the 1990s |
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more localized political control. Produced in Russia March 1992 with the signing of a new Russian Federation Treaty |
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| the exclusive club of the world’s richest nations made up of the US, Canada, France, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia |
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| Centralized Economic Planning |
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| state controls production targets and industrial output. |
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a. Russia wanted to privatize its economy. Freed price controls of the state. Russia in 1993 took state run companies and sold them to private investors |
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a. controls many aspects of the economy. Controls over 40 percent of the private economy ad 60 percent of state-run enterprises. The more liberal economic and political environment has helped it thrive. The mafia provided funds and jobs during the depression. Bribery and protection are part of the cost of doing business across much of the Russian domain. Over 8,000 syndicates, controlling construction businesses, drug dealing and prostitution, and funneling illegal CDs and DVDs to consumers. |
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| Commonwealth Of Independent States |
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| political union of most former republics, emerged from the Soviet Union, but by the end of 21st century was nothing more than a forum for discussion with no real economic or political power |
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| seminomadic peoples whom the Russians allied with, Slavic speaking Christians who had earlier migrated to the region to seek freedom in the ungoverned steppes Russian empire granted them privileges in exchange for military service. Opened the way for Russian expansion into Siberia. |
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| in East of Russia, a cold climate condition of unstable, seasonally frozen ground that limits the growth of vegetation and causes problems for railroad construction. |
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a. a key railroad passage to the Pacific completed in 1904. Connects the South to the Pacific |
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