1. Pull out your RUSSIA VOCAB

2. 1. Aral Sea (pg 353) Definition: sea that borders Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that is shrinking because govt. officials have taken so much water out of it to irrigate cotton fields in Central Asia. Other issues; pesticides and fertilizers have contaminated the water and surrounding land. Add the following words:

3. 2. Balkanization: the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another. Examples: the “Stan” countries of Central Asia after the fall of the U.S.S.R. “stan”: Persian/Farsi word meaning country, land, and or place of. Kazakhstan: the homeland/place of the Kazakhs.

4. Row leaders turn in RUSSIA VOCAB

5. Pull out your RUSSIAN HISTORY notes

6. 1917 Russian Revolution *don’t write down the words in black* Communism V.I. Lenin Soviet Union Market Economy Dictatorship Joseph Stalin Totalitarian Cold War Capitalism Karl Marx Mikhail Gorbachev Czar Nicholas II Bolsheviks Create a new section called:

7. RECAP of the story *don’t write this down* People HATE Rasputin and think Nicholas is a horrible king= OVERTHROWN o Family is taken hostage, tricked, shot to death, and buried in the woods Russian Revolution Party take over the country. (aka Communist Party) (aka Bolsheviks)

8. It’s a little confusing….. WRITE ALL OF THIS DOWN IN YOUR NOTES Soviet Union/ U.S.S.R: the name for the 15 countries on your map when they were all under communist rule

9. Communism: the govt. controls and manages the economy, usually under the leadership of one person/party. The main idea is that if the govt. controls property and all goods, people will have an equal share. *It’s about EQUALITY.* Command Economy: the name for an economy controlled by the government *the U.S.S.R. had a command economy*

10. Totalitarian: a govt. that has COMPLETE control over it’s people. Instead of just the economy, it controls attitudes, beliefs, t.v., radio, etc. Force and intimidation are used to control the people. Dictatorship : a govt. run by a single person or small group of people that have unlimited and absolute power. **Joseph Stalin was a communist, a totalitarian, and a dictator. **

11. LIST OF COMMUNIST RULERS Write these names and dates down in order 1.Vladimir Ilyich (V.I.) Lenin - 1917 to 1922 2.Josef (Joseph) Stalin - 1922 to 1953 3.Nikita Kruschev - 1953-1964 4.Leonid Brezhnev - 1964-1982 5.Yuri Andropov - 1982 to 1984 6.Konstantin Chernenko - 1984 to 1985 7.Mikhail Gorbachev - 1985 to 1991