Section 2: History & Government

Question 1

Czar

Answer 1

Supreme ruler.

Question 2

Serf

Answer 2

A virtually enslaved workforce bound to the land and under the control of nobility.

Question 3

Russification

Answer 3

Required everyone to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christanity.

Question 4

Socialism

Answer 4

A belief that calls for greater economic equality in society.

Question 5

Boleshevik

Answer 5

A revolutionary group led by Vladmir IIyich Lenin.

Question 6

Communism

Answer 6

A philosophy based on Karl Marx’s ideas that called for the violent overthrow of government and the creation of a new government and the creation of a new society led by workers.

Question 7

Satellite

Answer 7

Countries controlled by the Societ Union.

Question 8

Cold War

Answer 8

The struggle between the two competing systems- communists and capitalist- for world influence and power.

Question 9

Perestroika

Answer 9

A policy of economic reconstruction.

Question 10

Glasnost

Answer 10

A policy of greater political openness.