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 **__ ​ ​Topic #3__: __From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges__** (p. 430-432)


 * L** (What did you learn? Take notes as you read; answer your questions):
 * Government controlled Russia's economy
 * Free enterprise system is a market economy
 * People could make their own decisions
 * Tons of pollution
 * Without government control prices have risen
 * They have now changed to a democracy
 * Life expectancy is decreasing because of pollution
 * One of the most polluted countries in the world
 * Most of the people are poor
 * When the Soviet Union fell, people could do anything like opening their own businesses
 * All people had jobs in the USSR, now some are unemployed
 * Nuclear energy is power made by a controlled atomic reaction, like planting plants, with helps the environment
 * The most celebrated holiday is New Years
 * In large cities, they live modernly but some people are still very poor
 * An enterprise system is a market economy, where the government is not that involved.
 * The air pollution causes cancer, which brings down life expectancy.
 * The first leader in free enterprise was Boris Yeltsin and Vladmir Putin.
 * The environmental issues pollution.
 * The government built plants to make nuclear energy.
 * There was freedom, underemployment, democracy, and less pollution.
 * Government controlled economy
 * Decide what products to make nowadays
 * Russians got freedom
 * Communist government weren't protective
 * pollution
 * life expectancy fell
 * currently, under democracy and federal republic
 * Russian leaders have more power than an American president
 * Russia has many ethnic group, such as Chechens
 * A free enterprise system is a market economy
 * life expectancy is the the number of years that an average person is expected to live
 * Fall of communism turned Russia's economy upside down
 * the freedom of Russians was not always good
 * Under a free enterprise system people start and run businesses with little government intervention
 * Ethnic groups wanted their independence
 * Russians had to learn how to act in a democracy
 * Learn how to Follow the law
 * Learn how to accept disagreements over government policies
 * under Communism everyone has jobs