Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The world's first communist state established in 1917 and encompassed modern day Russia along with a number of countries that surround it. The USSR collapsed in the late 1991.

A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.

An empire that developed from the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople that lasted from 285 until 1483.

Intellectual belied system developed in 17th and 18th century Europe that's stressed reason over belief and rationality over religion.

An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

Political fragments of a state not physically connected to that state and surrounded by the territory of one or other nations.

A type of economic system that is controlled and planned by the central government.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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