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55 Cards in this Set
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Russia has more than___ ethnic groups
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100
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shares a common ancestry, language, and set of customs
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Ethnic group
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major ethnic groups
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Nationalities
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Russia's population:
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145 million; 6th largest populated country
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Russia's population density
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22 people/square mile
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Most people live west of the Ural Mountains (European Russia) because:
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• Good climate
• Fertile farmland • Most minerals are found there |
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The largest cities of the region are located west of the Urals:
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• Moscow
• St. Petersburg • Kiev |
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800s warrior traders from Scandinavia; adopted Slavic customs and language
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Varangian
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Founded city if Kiev
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Varangian
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1200s warriors from central Asia; invaded and destroyed Kievs
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Mongols
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Slavs who fled the Mongol invasion eventually started the city if ______
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Moscow
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supreme rulers of Russia
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Czars
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1st czar of Russia in the 1400s; built kremlin
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Ivan the Great
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ruled Russia as czars from 1613 to 1917
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Romanov Dynasty
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won warm water seaports for Russia and increased trade with Europe
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Peter the Great (1600s)
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city named for Peter the Great; called "window to the west"
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St. Petersburg
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peasants who became enslaved workers under control of the nobility
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Serfs
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serfs were freed in ____
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1861
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government requires all to speak Russian and become Eastern Orthodox Christians to unify the people
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Russification
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calls for greater economic equality in society
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Socialism
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Marx advocated ideas such as:
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• Public ownership of all land
• A classless society • An equal sharing of wealth |
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last czar of Russia; forced to leave Thorne in 1917
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Czar Nicholas II
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revolutionaries who overthrew the czar and proclaimed a socialist revolution in 1917
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Bolsheviks
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Bolsheviks leader who start communism in Russia
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Vladimir Lenin
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based on Marx's ideas that called for overthrowing the government and creating a new society led by workers
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Communism
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Bolsheviks promised "_____, ____, and _____"
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Peace, Land, and Bread
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USSR
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
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The original USSR (1921) consisted of:
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Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus region
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_____ died of a stroke in 1924, was buried a hero in Red Square
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Lenin
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leader after Lenin in 1924; sought to make USSR world's leading industrial power
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Joseph Stalin
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By 1940, the USSR had __ nations
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15
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Russian leader who began to lesson restrictions of communism in late 1980s
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Michael Gorbachev
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restructuring the Soviet Union
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Perestroika
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new openness in USSR
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Glasnost
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C.I.S.
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commonwealth of Independent States
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_______ introduced economic reform toward free enterprise
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Yeltsin
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intricate religious images
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Icons
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leader of Russian Orthodox Church
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Patriarch
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The second largest religious group in the region; found mainly in the central Asian republics
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Islam
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organized persecution and massacres of the Jews by the Soviets
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Pogroms
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Region has ____ ________ _____ because Soviet leaders emphasized free education from grade school to college
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high literacy rates
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1800s to early 1900s
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Golden Age of Russian Culture
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composed Swam Lake and Sleeping Beauty
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Peter Tchaikovsky
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famous Russian author
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Leo Tolstoy
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art had to agree and praise everything Soviet and ignore Soviet faults
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Socialist Realism
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forced to leave country for writing books critical of the government
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Alexander Solzhenitzen
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closest the 2 sides came to a nuclear War during the Cold War
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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1st man-made object launched into space
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Sputnik (1957)
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sent 1st living thing into space; Laika (dog)
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Sputnik 2
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Soviet leader after Stalin; said at UN " we will bury you" a threat of war
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Nikita Khrushchev
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1st man in space; died from plan crash at 34
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Yuri Gagarin
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Russian fighter jets
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MIG
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Russian newspaper; means "the news"
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Izvestia
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Russian newspaper; means "the truth"
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Pravda
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official news agency if the Soviet government
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Tass
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