Russia

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. An elected governmental council in a communist country (6)
  2. 6. A city of central European Russia (6)
  3. 8. A male monarch or emperor (4)
  4. 10. Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II (8)
  5. 11. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute ___ (12)
  6. 12. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (5)
  7. 13. An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority (8)

Down

  1. 1. Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries (9)
  2. 2. A city in the European part of Russia (9)
  3. 3. A bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (8)
  4. 5. A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society (9)
  5. 7. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state (6)
  6. 9. Founder of modern communism (8)