serfs - a farm laborer who could be bought and sold along with the land, communism - a system of government in which the government controls the ways of producing goods, collectivization - a system in which small farms were combined into huge state-run enterprises with work done by mechanized techniques in the hopes of making farming more efficient and reducing the need for farmworkers, czar - the title given to the emperors of Russia's past, balkanization - to break a country up into smaller units that are often hostile to one another, reserves - a large amount of a resource that has not yet been tapped, brackish - water that is somewhat salty, inflation - a sharp increase in the price of goods, sometimes caused by a shortage of goods, oligarch - a member of a small ruling group that holds great power, devolution - the process by which a large, centralized government gives power away to smaller, local governments, steppe - a partly dry grassland often found on the edge of a desert, upland - the high land away from the coast of a country, genocide - the mass murder of people from a particular ethnic group,

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