A plan initiated in 1953 to open up vast areas of Kazakhstan steppe to grain production.
A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.
The tendency for empires to become involved in more foreign interventions that they can afford or manage successfully.
A blueprint for Soviet city structures, which was influential in creating the urbanized structure of modern Russia.
A military alliance formed in 1949 between Canada, the USA and European countries as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state
The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.
The ideological movement by Russian leaders to promote the active creation of a single Russian empire with one religion and a single language.
Refers to those countries that were formerly part of the old Soviet Union, but decided to separate from Russia after its fall.
Russian name for World War II.
Intellectual belied system developed in 17th and 18th century Europe that's stressed reason over belief and rationality over religion.
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.
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