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Explore the challenges facing Russian agriculture, including a large but unusable territory and a short growing season. Learn about ethnic separatism in regions like the Caucasus and Chechnya, as well as tensions in the "near abroad" due to Russian meddling.
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GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 100 • Lg. territory , but much of the land is unusable • Shortness of growing season
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS100 What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 200 It was sought by the czars who wished to make Russia into a naval power. Soviet desire for one prompted the US to ally itself with Iran.
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS200 What is a warm-water port?
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS300 Geographic area within Russia in which widespread ethnic separatism threatens the loss of republics and autonomous regions
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 300 What is the Caucasus?
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 400 Russian Republic full of ethnic separatist who’ve engaged in two wars with Russia
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS400 What is Chechnya?
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 500 Things like Russian meddling in former Soviet republics like the Ukraine (Putin’s “meddling” in the election -- support for PM Yanukovich instead of popular challenger Viktor Yushchenko) leads to tensions with this area
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 500 What is the “near abroad”?
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 100 • Ethnic Russians are often in the minority in Russia’s various regions and republics.
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 100 What is CURIOUS?
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 200 Modern political parties in the Russian Federation are highly ideological and are generally conservative vs. reform oriented.
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 200 What is SPURIOUS?
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 300 Most ethnic Russians are devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 300 What is SPURIOUS?
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 400 The Russian population is predominantly rural.
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 400 What is SPURIOUS? (73% urban)
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 500 NATIONALITY is a bit of a “sticky wicket” in Russia because the country has about fifty different ethnic groups.
DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 500 What is SPURIOUS? (over 100!)
Large and In Charge - 100 Khrushchev’s successor
Large and In Charge - 100 Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
Large and In Charge - 200 YURI ANDROPOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO
Large and In Charge - 200 Who are Brezhnev’s two short-lived geriatric successors
Large and In Charge - 300 1st popularly elected President of Russia; stood on the tanks in the face of the 1991 attempted coup
Large and In Charge - 300 Who is BorisYeltsin?
Large and In Charge - 400 Current Russian Prime Minister, he’s Putin’s “pet”; elected President of the Russian Federation in 2008
Large and In Charge - 400 Who is DMITRY MEDVEDEV ?
Large and In Charge - 500 Two key terrorist acts which allowed Putin to further centralize power in the Russian presidency
Large and In Charge - 500 What are • The Beslan school attack • The Moscow theater hostage situation
INSTITUTIONS - 100 Institutional power center in USSR
INSTITUTIONS - 100 What is the POLITBURO?
INSTITUTIONS - 200 Upper and Lower houses of the Russian legislature
INSTITUTIONS - 200 What are the • Duma • Federation Council?
INSTITUTIONS - 300 the Central State Planning Commission which managed the Soviet economy
INSTITUTIONS - 300 What is GOSPLAN?
INSTITUTIONS - 400 It exercises judicial review
INSTITUTIONS - 400 What is the Constitutional Court?
INSTITUTIONS - 500 • Highest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law and • Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes
INSTITUTIONS - 500 What are • The Supreme Court and • The Supreme Arbitration Court?
TERMINOLOGY - 100 Marx’s terms for workers and for owners of means of production & distribution of goods and services
TERMINOLOGY - 100 What are • PROLETARIAT & • BOURGEOISIE ?
TERMINOLOGY - 200 the tendency to look to a strong state for protection and problem-solving
TERMINOLOGY - 200 What is STATISM?
TERMINOLOGY - 300 sudden and drastic economic reform in tandem with democratic political reform
TERMINOLOGY - 300 What is “shock therapy”?
Just in Case - 400 Gorby’s programs: • Openness 2. Economic liberalization
TERMINOLOGY - 400 What are • GLASNOST & • PERESTROIKA