1. Review Chapter 11-12

2. The Last Czar of Russia was
Nicholas II
Last Leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
A country whose government has strong control over the economy and society
Communist State

3. Worked on nobles’ country estates or in city palaces
Serfs
Vast frozen treeless plain across the east side of Russia
Tundra
Type of economy in which most businesses are privately owned and in competition (USA)
Free Enterprise

4. Forty Percent of Russia’s land is what kind of land?
Permafrost
Largest inland saltwater body of water in the world
Caspian Sea
How does Russia rank in size among the world’s countries?
Largest

5. A Russian word meaning “Restructuring”
Perestroika
Gorbachev allowed people to speak freely –
Glasnost
Russian ruler for hundreds of years
Czar

6. World’s deepest freshwater Lake
Lake Baikal
Longest river in Europe
Volga
Eastern Europe competing for influence against the Western nations without actually fighting
Cold War

7. This forest stretches about 4000 miles across Russia
Taiga
Russia is spread across the continents of
Europe and Asia
Famous Russian composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker
Peter Tchaikovsky

8. To rely more on industry, going from hand-made goods and farming to machine-made items in factories
Industrialization
Landform marking the boundary between Europe and Asia
Ural Mountains
Who led the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917?
Lenin

9. Modern Russians descend from early groups of:
Slavs
Today’s capital of Russia
Moscow
Vast region in Russia where many untapped minerals are
Siberia