M17L2&L3

The Vikings shaped the first Russian state among the Slavs.

• Ottoman Empire

• Kievan Rus

• Balkan Peninsula

A form of the Greek alphabet that shaped the Russian language.

• Cyrillic

• Persian

• Arabic

Crowned himself the first Czar.

• Catherine the Great

• Ivan IV

• Ivan III

Radical Russian Communist group who siezed power in the Russian Revolution.

• Tatars

• Ottoman Turks

• Bolshevics

In 1924 he took power and became a brutal and paranoid dictator.

• Ivan IV

• Vladimir Lenin

• Czar Nicholas II

Under Stalin, Russia set up what type of economy?

• Market

• Command

• Free Enterprise

Without competition, efficiency, availability and quality of products falls over time.

• True

• False

Harsh Soviet labor camps.

• Yunkers

• Gulags

• Bolsheviks

The Cold War led the Soviet Union to become the greatest power on Earth, which it still is today.

• True

• False

Russia's most powerful government official.

• Prime Minister

• President

• Federal Assembly