CIS REVIEW

This mountain range separates European

Russia from Asian Russia

Ural Mountains

Bread Basket of CIS and Europe

Ukraine

Center of the first Russian State

Kiev

Mongols who conquered Kiev

Golden Horde

Regains Russian territory lost during Mongol Rule, requires all to serve in the military, and builds framework for absolute rule

Ivan the Great

First ruler crowned Czar setting the

stage for absolute power in Russia

Ivan the Terrible

Czars ruling autocratically means

to

Rule with absolute power

Land owning nobles of Russia during the rule

of the Czars

Boyars

Family name of those who were in power from 1613 -1917 in Russia

ROMANOV

Czar who westernized Russia, expanded its borders and ended Russia’s isolation

Peter the Great

Most Russians were this under the Czars

Serfs

Protest whereby Czar Nicholas II orders

protesters shot

Bloody Sunday

Legislature under Nicholas II that

approved all laws

Duma

Forced to abdicate the throne

Nicholas II

Author of the Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

Marxist protest against longer hours and less pay

Bloody Sunday

Obstacle for Russia to industrialize

Rigid Class Structure

RUSSIA WAS DEFEATED IN THIS WAR, SHOWING HOW BACKWARD RUSSIA WAS

Crimean War

This U.S. President stood up to Khrushchev

and forces him to remove missiles from

Cuba, preventing Nuclear War

President Kennedy

RUSSIA’S OFFICIAL RELIGION

Russian Orthodox Church

CZARINA WHO CONTINUED PETER’S POLICIES & EXTENDED RUSSIA’S BORDERS

Catherine the Great

HE WAS DEFEATED BY RUSSIA IN 1812

WITH HELP OF “GENERAL WINTER”

Napoleon

LIBERATOR CZAR WHO FREED THE

SERFS

Alexander II

WROTE THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Karl Marx

After Lenin’s death there was a power

struggle between these 3 men to gain control of

the Soviet Union

Kerensky, Trotsky, and Stalin

Stalin’s plan to industrialize the

Soviet Union

Five Year Plans

Karl Marx said socialist programs of

the west were created for this

To give the workers a little something to keep them happy and from

revolting

FACTORY WORKERS OR WORKERS IN EARLY RUSSIA

PROLETARIANS

FACTORY OWNERS OF EMPERICAL RUSSIA

BOURGEOISIE

After the Bolshevik Revolution a Civil War resulted, who was this

between?

Civil War was between the Reds and the Whites

COMMUNIST MANIFESTO CALLED FOR

OVERTHROW OF BOURGEOUSIE BY PROLETARIANS

LAST CZAR OF RUSSIA

Nicholas II

REVOLUTION ENDING RULE OF

CZARS

BOLSHEVIK

AFTER THE BOLSHEVIK

REVOLUTION RUSSIA BECAME

THIS

SOCIALIST OR COMMUNIST STATE

Eyes, Ears, and Enforcer of Stalin’s policies, or Stalin’s

secret police

KGB

AFTER THE BOLSHEVIK

REVOLUTION, HE BECAME HEAD OF RUSSIA, AND THE FOUNDER OF THE

SOVIET UNION

Lenin

ACCORDING TO SOCIALISM ALL

PEOPLE ARE THIS IN REFERENCE TO CLASS

Workers in a classless society

2ND LEADER OF USSR, KGB ENFORCED HIS

POLICIES, 30 MILLION RUSSIANS WERE

KILLED BECAUSE OF HIM

Stalin

AGREEMENT BETWEEN STALIN AND

HITLER NOT TO ATTACK EACH OTHER

in 1939

Non-Aggression Pact

HELPED RUSSIA DEFEAT HITLER

General Winter

State of tension & hostility between

nations aligned with the U.S. on one side and communist nations

aligned with the Soviet Union

Cold War

AFTER WWII THE U.S. AND THE SOVIET

UNION WERE CONSIDERED TO BE

SUPER POWERS BECAUSE THEY BOTH

HAD THIS

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

TENSIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND USSR

CAUSED BY THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR

COLD WAR

The Soviet Union was the first nation to

put a man in space, who was this?

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

Gorbachev and this U.S. President are

credited with ending the Cold War

President Reagan

After the fall of the Soviet Union the 15

republics became this

Independent Nations

CLOSEST WORLD CAME TO NUCLEAR

WAR

Cuban Missile Crisis

OPENESSNESS POLICY OF

GORBACHEV

GLASNOST

GORBACHEV’S ECONOMIC

RESTRUCTURING POLICY

PERESTROIKA

AFTER THE SOVIET UNION’S COLLAPSE,

IT BECAME THIS

Commonwealth of Independent Nations

or the CIS

SHOWS RUSSIA’S DEVELOPMENT

RUSSIA, SOVIET UNION, CIS

USSR STANDS FOR

THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST

REPUBLICS

LAST PRESIDENT OF SOVIET UNION

GORBACHEV