Comintern

Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID)

Maxim Litvinov

Vyacheslav Molotov

Spanish Civil War

General Franco

Popular Front

appeasement

Hitler/Stalin Pact (Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact)

Winter War

Operation Barbarossa

Stalingrad

Kursk (there was a typo on the lecture slide, so you may have this written down as Kurst)

Liberation of Leningrad

Georgi Zhukov

Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

United Nations

"iron curtain"

"Long Telegram"

Marshal Tito

"salami tactics"

Cominform

Marshall Plan

NATO

Comecon

Warsaw Pact

the "Big Deal"

Zhdanovshchina

Anna Akhmatova

Trofim Lysenko

Doctors Plot

Nikita Khrushchev

First Secretary

Georgy Malenkov

"secret speech"

Twentieth Party Congress

the Thaw

Sputnik

Cuban Missile Crisis

Leonid Brezhnev

Aleksei Kosygin

nomenklatura

stagnation

blat

détente

Mutually Assured Destruction

Prague Spring

Alexander Dubcek

Yuri Andropov

Konstantin Chernenko

Mikhail Gorbachev

perestroika

glasnot'

anti-alcohol campaign

Chernobyl

Boris Yeltsin

RSFSR

August 1991 putsch

Commonwealth of Independent States