Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

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

A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

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 targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

A type of economic system that is controlled and planned by the central government.

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

A military alliance formed in 1949 between Canada, the USA and European countries as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

A blueprint for Soviet city structures, which was influential in creating the urbanized structure of modern Russia.

A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.

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

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

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