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| the countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, located on the esatern coast of the Baltic Sea |
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| the emperor of Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922 |
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| the revolt of 1917, in which the Russian Communist Party, led by V.I. Lenin, took control of the government from the czars |
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| the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in 1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991 |
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| the conflict between the United Staes and the Soviet Union after World War II, called "cold" because it never escalated into open warfare. |
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| a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production |
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| an enormous farm in the Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin's regin |
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| an abandoned city situated in northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine near the border with Belarus. |
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| Georgian (Russian) term for dinner party, with many dishes and courses, toasts, and short speeches |
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| the 4,000- mile route between China and the Mediterranean Sea |
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| a struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for control of Central Asia in the 19th century |
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| a person with no permanent home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land |
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| a tent of Cental Asia's nomads |
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