| Lenin | | The "________ War" was sort of like an undeclared war between the forces of Soviet Communism and Western republics. |
| Politburo | | His name literally means "man of steel"--but unlike Superman, this guy was 99.44% evil. |
| Boyers | | Although the USA distrusted Stalin, we aided the Russians in their war with this country. |
| Germany | | In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the Russians and Americans competed in a race to ___________. |
| Bury | | In the 1990s, this system started to replace the old economic system. |
| Moscow | | Czar Ivan IV is known by this odd nickname--"Ivan the ____________". |
| Capitalism | | This lady was rather confusing--a powerful and manipulative ruler AND a lover of modernism and the French Philosophers. |
| Napoleon | | While the Soviets claimed to be Communists, party officials, athletes and other important folk were given cars, gifts and even fancy summer homes (called __________)--while the rest of the people lived in poverty or near poverty. |
| Terrible | | Until Czar Peter moved it, this was the capital of Russia. |
| Putin | | This organization was created to try to contain the spread of Russian Communism. |
| Religion | | The Soviet economic policy of the late 80s and early 90s |
| Stalin | | Like the Chinese, the Soviets did not allow organized __________--instead stating that they were officially an Atheist nation. |
| Space | | This is the current dictator of Russia--a dictator because he hold elections in which his opponents are jailed to prevent their campaigning! |
| Peter | | This is the organization in the Soviet Union that spied on the people to make sure they were 100% loyal. |
| Iron | | Wealthy and powerful lords who dominated and controlled many of the early Czars. |
| Cold | | This oligarchy ruled Russia from the death of Stalin through Gorbachev. |
| Siberia | | St. ________________ was the home of the Czars from Peter through Nicholas II. |
| Feudalism | | The first Russian revolution was in May and the Communist revolution was in this month. |
| Afghanistan | | Czar ____________ II was a very good and capable ruler--so, of course, some idiot assassinated him! |
| Catherine | | This leader foolishly thought he could continue the wartime policies of the Czar and still maintain power. |
| October | | The Russian army invaded this country in the 1980s and eventually they were forced to withdraw in defeat. |
| Expression | | Russia used the "scorched earth" strategy to ultimately destroy the armies of _________________. |
| Incentive | | During the Olympics and other international events, ____________ of Russians to Western nations was common. |
| Dachas | | This guy was the first Communist leader of Russia and can be seen even today in his glass coffin. |
| KGB | | Churchill described Eastern Europe as falling behind an "_______ Curtain" after WWII. |
| NATO | | Often, those who disagreed with the Soviet government were sent to mental institutions or sent to huge prison camps in this region. |
| Petersburg | | This man replaced Gorbachev and became the first non-Communist leader of Russia since 1917. |
| Defections | | While this social/economic system died out in Europe hundreds of years earlier, _____________ continued until almost modern times. |
| Collectives | | Stalin threw farmers off their land and made them form huge farms called ________________. |
| Alexander | | Premier Khrushchev uttered the famous phrase about America--"We will _________ you"--provoking Americans to think he was a naughty man indeed! |
| Kerensky | | ___________ the Great modernized Russia but was also known for being a cruel and absolute ruler. |
| Yeltsin | | In the Soviet system, speaking your mind or writing what you felt was NOT allowed in many cases since the Communist system did not allow Freedom of ___________. |
| Perestroika | | Because workers on the average assembly line or farm were paid regardless of their output, there was little ___________ to work harder. |
