Bolsheviks
buffer state
capitalists
Caucasia
centrally planned, or socialist, economy
Cold War
communism
Communist Party
czar
Gazprom
glasnost
Group of Eight (G8)
Mongols
nomadic pastoralists
nonpoint sources of pollution
oligarchs
perestroika
permafrost
privatization
Russian Federation
Russification
Siberia
Slavs
Soviet Union
steppes
taiga
trafficking
tundra
underemployment
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)