Russian Crossword

2. the male head of a family or tribe.
4. a change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries
7. Russian term for a new openness in areas of politics, social issues, and media; part of Gorbachev’s reform plans
9. based on equitable distribution of wealth, land and public ownership of production
11. group-group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin
12. country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union at the end of WWII
14. permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground
17. rich, black top soil found in the northern European Plane, especially Russia and Ukraine

1. ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution; originally from the Latin word Caesar meaning ruler
2. an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or Eastern Europe.
3. chemical used to kill crop-damaging insects; rodents, and other pests
5. religious work of art, particularly paintings
6. vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen
8. person’s belief that there is no God
10. agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
13. the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia
15. wide,grassy plain of Eurasia
16. War-the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the U.S. after WWII