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JEOPARDY #1 RUSSIA

JEOPARDY #1 RUSSIA. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 100. Lg. territory , but much of the land is unusable Shortness of growing season. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 100. What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 200.

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JEOPARDY #1 RUSSIA

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  1. JEOPARDY #1RUSSIA

  2. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 100 • Lg. territory , but much of the land is unusable • Shortness of growing season

  3. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS100 What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?

  4. 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.

  5. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS200 What is a warm-water port?

  6. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS300 Geographic area within Russia in which widespread ethnic separatism threatens the loss of republics and autonomous regions

  7. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 300 What is the Caucasus?

  8. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 400 Russian Republic full of ethnic separatist who’ve engaged in two wars with Russia

  9. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS400 What is Chechnya?

  10. 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

  11. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS- 500 What is the “near abroad”?

  12. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 100 • Ethnic Russians are often in the minority in Russia’s various regions and republics.

  13. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 100 What is CURIOUS?

  14. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 200 Modern political parties in the Russian Federation are highly ideological and are generally conservative vs. reform oriented.

  15. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 200 What is SPURIOUS?

  16. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 300 Most ethnic Russians are devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  17. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 300 What is SPURIOUS?

  18. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 400 The Russian population is predominantly rural.

  19. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 400 What is SPURIOUS? (73% urban)

  20. 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.

  21. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS?- 500 What is SPURIOUS? (over 100!)

  22. Large and In Charge - 100 Khrushchev’s successor

  23. Large and In Charge - 100 Who is Leonid Brezhnev?

  24. Large and In Charge - 200 YURI ANDROPOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO

  25. Large and In Charge - 200 Who are Brezhnev’s two short-lived geriatric successors

  26. Large and In Charge - 300 1st popularly elected President of Russia; stood on the tanks in the face of the 1991 attempted coup

  27. Large and In Charge - 300 Who is BorisYeltsin?

  28. Large and In Charge - 400 Current Russian Prime Minister, he’s Putin’s “pet”; elected President of the Russian Federation in 2008

  29. Large and In Charge - 400 Who is DMITRY MEDVEDEV ?

  30. Large and In Charge - 500 Two key terrorist acts which allowed Putin to further centralize power in the Russian presidency

  31. Large and In Charge - 500 What are • The Beslan school attack • The Moscow theater hostage situation

  32. INSTITUTIONS - 100 Institutional power center in USSR

  33. INSTITUTIONS - 100 What is the POLITBURO?

  34. INSTITUTIONS - 200 Upper and Lower houses of the Russian legislature

  35. INSTITUTIONS - 200 What are the • Duma • Federation Council?

  36. INSTITUTIONS - 300 the Central State Planning Commission which managed the Soviet economy

  37. INSTITUTIONS - 300 What is GOSPLAN?

  38. INSTITUTIONS - 400 It exercises judicial review

  39. INSTITUTIONS - 400 What is the Constitutional Court?

  40. INSTITUTIONS - 500 • Highest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law and • Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes

  41. INSTITUTIONS - 500 What are • The Supreme Court and • The Supreme Arbitration Court?

  42. TERMINOLOGY - 100 Marx’s terms for workers and for owners of means of production & distribution of goods and services

  43. TERMINOLOGY - 100 What are • PROLETARIAT & • BOURGEOISIE ?

  44. TERMINOLOGY - 200 the tendency to look to a strong state for protection and problem-solving

  45. TERMINOLOGY - 200 What is STATISM?

  46. TERMINOLOGY - 300 sudden and drastic economic reform in tandem with democratic political reform

  47. TERMINOLOGY - 300 What is “shock therapy”?

  48. Just in Case - 400 Gorby’s programs: • Openness 2. Economic liberalization

  49. TERMINOLOGY - 400 What are • GLASNOST & • PERESTROIKA

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