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Across 2. in nineteenth century Russia, a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian 6. intellectual elite 7. Russian term for new openness in areas of politics, social issues, and media, part of Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform plans 8. a river of western Russia (2 Words) 9. large, distinct ethnic group within a country 10. group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of such characteristics (2 Words) 15. power struggle between the Soviet Union and the U.S. post WW II (2 Words) 18. in Russian, Restructuring; part of Gorbachev’s plan for reforming the Soviet economy and government 20. a course of action taken in order to guide people in making decisions 21. clear to the sight or mind 22. laborer obliged to remain on the land where he or she 24. a major Pacific port city in Russia overlooking Golden Horn Bay, near the borders with China and North Korea 26. a belief that there is no God 28. officially the Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of the Russian Federation, located in the Volga Federal District 29. is the easternmost of the three great Siberian Rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (2 Words) 30. political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production

Down 1. realistic style of art and literature that glorified Soviet Ideals and goals (2 Words) 3. to get as one’s own; to come into possession 4. a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea (2 Words) 5. the period between 1921 and 1991 when Russian was a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (2 Words) 11. self-rule 12. a member of the communist party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917 13. ruler of Russia until the 1917 Revolution 14. Capital of Russia 16. the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea (2 Words) 17. a country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union 19. means of assistance 23. society based on equality in which workers control industrial production 25. in Czarist Russia, an attack on Jews often carried out by government troops or officials 27. of or relating to races or large groups of people classed according to common traits and customs