Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

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

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.

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

An empire that developed from the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople that lasted from 285 until 1483.

Region found between the tundra and steppe regions of northern latitudes that is generally composed of coniferous forests.

Countries that were part of the Soviet Union, some of which maintained some relative autonomy.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The tendency for empires to become involved in more foreign interventions that they can afford or manage successfully.

A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

The empire founded by Genghis Khan that extended in the 13th and 14th century across Asia into Europe.

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