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4. Restoring freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and press

5. Glasnost

6. Restructuring the Soviet economy, government, and military

7. Perostroika

8. 1991 event that temporarily removed Gorbachev from power

9. August Coup

10. Policy to stop any satellite moving away from Communism

11. Brezhnev Doctrine

12. Harsh Soviet leader

13. Leonid Brezhnev

14. Polish trade union that helped collapse Communism

15. Solidarity

16. Its long-time Communist leader Janos Kadar left in 1988; it joined NATO in 1999 and EU 2004; much economic growth

17. Hungary

18. He was the first noncommunist leader of Czechoslovakia.

19. Vaclav Havel

20. This country has had close ties to Austria, Germany, and Italy after independence from Yugoslavia; member of EU and NATO; very successful.

21. Slovenia

22. Fate of Romanian dictator Ceausescu

23. He and his wife were both executed after being convicted of treason after a brief civil war in Romania.

24. These are all major social problems in Russia today.

25. Organized crime, TB, alcoholism, drugs

26. Most economically successful former Soviet republics, at least until the recent recession.

27. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

28. Extremely poor European, former Soviet republic’s economy relies heavily on imported energy and on agriculture, including the production of wine, vegetables, tobacco and fruit.

29. Moldova

30. They had the 2005 Orange revolution. It failed.

31. Ukraine

32. Currently economically unified with Russia; they use market socialism as their economy and have made no political reforms since independence.

33. Belarus

34. Region fought over between Armenia and Azerbaijan

35. Nagorno-Karabakh

36. This former Soviet republic had a civil war when Abkhazia and Ossetia tried to break away from it. Later in 2008, Russia invaded them over the same places.

37. Georgia

38. This former Soviet republic had the Pink revolution in 2005. It failed
This former Soviet republic had the Pink revolution in It failed. They had another revolution in 2010.

39. Kyrgyzstan

40. This former Soviet republic benefits from their huge resources of oil in the Caspian Sea.

41. Azerbaijan

42. Rising population and urban growth, lack of democratic reform, volatile resource prices, falling water supply, religious and ethnic tensions, pollution

43. What are problems associated with former Soviet republics in Central Asia?

44. Russia

45. Vladimir Putin

46. Poland

47. Ewa Kopecz

48. Germany

49. Angela Merkel

50. France

51. Francois Hollande

52. Kazakhstan

53. Nursultan Nazarbayev

54. They rely heavily on the export of cotton, gold, and oil; this former Soviet republic continues to use Soviet practices in its economy and has been accused of torturing Al-Qaeda suspects.

55. Uzbekistan

56. A civil war in this former Soviet republic left 40,000 dead, and ½ their intelligentsia fled.

57. Tajikistan

58. Although they’ve made many progressive reforms towards capitalism, in this former Soviet republic that just had another revolution, 55% of their workers produce cotton, tobacco, wool, and meat.

59. Kyrgyzstan

60. Leader of Turkmenistan; made President for Life in 1999; died 2006, but replaced with another dictator.

61. Saparmurat Niyazov

62. They people of this former Soviet republic have Iranian heritage and limited arable land and mineral resources.

63. Tajikistan

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