Russia newsletter
by Tamara Baker
Chernobyl
Chernobyl is in the country of Ukraine.
Power plant that exploded and caught on fire.
Chernobyl
April 26,1986 the Chernobyl exploded which led to a radioactive cloud.
Contamination: means that a type of food is unsafe to eat or touch.
Fallout: means very small things that fall into the atmosphere.
Half-Life: means in time that life decreases.
The Beginning of Serfdom
Serfs: are people that own no land.
Strikes: means stops working.
Communism: is a single party that the government controls.
Socialism: a system in which the government controls.
Collective Farms: people who produced a certain amount of food.
The Soviet Collapse
Perestroika: (restructure)
Glasnost: (openness)
Autonomy: determined control themselves.
Coup: An overthrow that the government controlled.
The Soviet Union formed in 1922. Then suddenly the soviet union had very little food and money. Became unfamous.