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S: (n) Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)

S: (n) Russian Revolution, February Revolution (the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917)
S: (n) Russian Revolution, October Revolution (the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922)
S: (n) Russian (the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia)
S: (n) razbliuto (the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do)
S: (n) pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki (small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried)
S: (n) kvass (fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley)
S: (n) kolkhoz (a collective farm owned by the communist state)
S: (n) steppe (extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia))
S: (n) tovarich, tovarisch (a comrade (especially in Russian communism))
S: (n) Stern, Isaac Stern (United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920))
S: (n) balagan (a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)) "it was utter and complete balagan!"
S: (n) svoboda ((Russia) freedom)

S: (n) Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))
S: (n) Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)
S: (n) Caspian, Caspian Sea (a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world)