Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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Political fragments of a state not physically connected to that state and surrounded by the territory of one or other nations.

A plan initiated in 1953 to open up vast areas of Kazakhstan steppe to grain production.

A vast network of pipelines used to transport oil and gas deposits from Russia and central Asia to markets in Europe and China.

The world's first communist state established in 1917 and encompassed modern day Russia along with a number of countries that surround it. The USSR collapsed in the late 1991.

Refers to those countries that were formerly part of the old Soviet Union, but decided to separate from Russia after its fall.

The ideological movement by Russian leaders to promote the active creation of a single Russian empire with one religion and a single language.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

Intellectual belied system developed in 17th and 18th century Europe that's stressed reason over belief and rationality over religion.

An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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