Eastern Europe and Western Russia

Vast, level area of land that supports only low-growing grasses.

• upland

• steppe

• brackish

• basin

Area of land that slopes gently downward from surrounding land.

• upland

• steppe

• brackish

• basin

An area of high elevation.

• upland

• steppe

• brackish

• basin

Slightly salty water that is a mixture of seawater and river water.

• upland

• steppe

• brackish

• basin

Conflict among ethnic groups within a state, country or region.

• Balkanization

• Solidarity

• Oligarch

• Communism

Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold in czarist times.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• czar

• serf

• Nikita Khrushchev

ruler of Russia before 1917

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• czar

• serf

• Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader who allowed more social and political freedoms.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• czar

• serf

• Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• czar

• serf

• Nikita Khrushchev

political capital of Russia

• Oligarch

• Moscow

• Communism

• St. Petersburg