| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan |
Al Faran
,
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
,
Harkat ul-Ansar
,
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
,
HUA
,
HUM
,
Movement of Holy Warriors
|
| Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) |
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
,
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
,
Solzhenitsyn
|
| Soviet ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations (1909-1989) |
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
,
Andrei Gromyko
,
Gromyko
|
| Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989) |
Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov
,
Andrei Sakharov
,
Sakharov
|
| landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their n |
Armenia
,
Hayastan
,
Republic of Armenia
|
| United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986) |
Averell Harriman
,
Harriman
,
William Averell Harriman
|
| landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet |
Azerbaijan
,
Azerbaijani Republic
,
Azerbajdzhan
,
Azerbajdzhan Republic
|
| landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet |
Belarus
,
Belorussia
,
Byelarus
,
Byelorussia
,
Republic of Belarus
,
White Russia
|
| Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953) |
Beria
,
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria
|
| Soviet communism |
Bolshevism
,
collectivism
,
sovietism
|
| Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960) |
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
,
Boris Pasternak
,
Pasternak
|
| Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982) |
Brezhnev
,
Leonid Brezhnev
,
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
|
| city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation |
capital of the Russian Federation
,
Moscow
,
Russian capital
|
| alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 |
CIS
,
Commonwealth of Independent States
|
| state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States |
Cold War
|
| formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
Committee for State Security
,
KGB
,
Soviet KGB
|
| republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990 |
East Germany
,
German Democratic Republic
|
| United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940) |
Emma Goldman
,
Goldman
|
| internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin |
Federal Security Bureau
,
Federal Security Service
,
FSB
|
| Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) |
Gagarin
,
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
,
Yuri Gagarin
|
