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| a layer of soil below the ground surface that remains permanently frozen. |
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| why does russia not harvest much of their resources? |
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| because most of them are in siberia and frozen. |
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| what purpose do the ural mountains serve? |
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| a barrier between europe and asia |
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| how many republics of the former ussr were there? |
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| which vegetation zone is the best farming area of russia? |
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| how many time zones would you cross if you traveled all the way across russia? |
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| most of russia lies about what line of latitude? |
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| 49 degree north latitude line |
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| how did the russian general winter aid the russian people? two examples? |
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| in world war II and with Napoleon |
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| What was the first Russian city state? Where is it located today? |
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| Which empire did Kiev absorb ideas from? What were the two most important things that Russians got from this empire? |
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| Byzantine Empire and a system of writing and the Christian religion |
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| What is the name of the Russian alphabet? |
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| Explain the emergence of the Russian orthodox church |
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| Russia was cut off from western europe and so they evolved into the Russian Orthodox Church |
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| organized acts of violence against the jews |
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| Describe the accomplishments and failures of Ivan III |
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| He ended the mongol rule in Russia and he was the first czar and an autocrat. |
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| Describe accomplishments or failures of Ivan IV (Ivan the terrible) |
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| Created a secret police and created a reign of terror against powerful nobles. Also encouraged feudalism when it was declining in western europe. |
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| Accomplishments or failures of Peter I (Peter the great?) |
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| Tried to westernize russia, strengthened russia, changed the capital to St Petersburg |
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| Accomplishments and failures of Catherine the Great? |
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| Tried to add a warm water port to Russia. |
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| accomplishments or failures of Nicholas II? |
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| there was great industrialization and land reform during his rule however he put Pogroms into effect |
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| Who put pogroms into effect? |
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| elected assembly of Nicholas the II |
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| What was the purpose of the March 1917 revolution? |
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| The people wanted the war to end and wanted to get Nicholas II abdicated. |
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| Describe the Bolshevik Revolution |
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| It was led by Lenin and the Bolshevik party. He promised no more fighting and plenty of food. |
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| What does USSR stand for? |
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| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| In the Russian Revolution, which army was communist and which was the opposistion force? |
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| red army was commnist, white army was the opposistion |
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| What was the name of Lenin's method of fixing the Soviet economy? How did it work? |
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| New Economy Policy-allowed some capitalist practices but still wanted a communist state, a little bit less controlling |
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| What was Lenin's opinion of Stalin? |
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| What was the purpose of the great purge? |
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| to expel any rivals from the communist party |
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| What are dissidents? How were they usually dealt with? |
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| People who spoke out against the government and they were usually exiled. |
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List the five soviet leaders in order.
Let's Steal Kangaroos Being Greedy. |
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| Lenin Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev Gorbachev |
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| How do we know education was important to the USSR? |
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| Illiteracy was virtually ended and all soviets recieved at least 8 years of schooling |
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| List three advantages of communism in the USSR |
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| Public transportation, Healthcare was free, and every individual was guarenteed a job |
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| List three disadvantages of communism in the USSR. |
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| Housing shortages, meat and fresh fruit shortages, and average person spent a long time waiting for a car. |
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| What is the difference between perestroika and glasnot? |
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| Perestroika is the restructure of the Soviet economy and glasnot is social changes that urged openess and honesty when discussing the country's problems. |
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| List three changes that were made due to perestroika. |
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| Factory managers were allowed to make decisions, improved quality of consumer goods, and allowed private businesses. |
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| list two changes that were made due to glasnot. |
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| Eased censorship of tv and newspaper and allowed some dissidents to return. |
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| What is autonomy and what country was the first to declare this? |
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| independence and lithuania was the first to declare it |
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| In what year did the soviet union collapse? |
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| Russia's first president that was democratically elected. |
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| When was russia's first democratic election? |
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| former president and current Prime Minister of Russia. |
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| Why did the russian economy begin to boom under Putin's rule? |
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| He paid his workers more of a salary |
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| Was Putin's rule more autocratic or democratic? why |
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| Autocratic because he made all the decisions |
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6 Climate zones of the former soviet union?
FTBSDC Frail tired bears singing doowop cutely |
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Frozen Tundra
Taiga
Broad Leaf Forest
Steppe
Desert
Caucasus |
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| describe the frozen tundra |
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| frozen, supports only moss and lichens |
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| huge belt of evergreen trees that is larger in size than the continental usa. |
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| describe the broad leaf forest? |
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| a zone that the taiga merges into too, there are broad leaf shaped trees |
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| ranges from ukraine to kazakhstan, has rich, fertile soil |
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| describe the desert region |
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| southeast of the steppe, located in central asia |
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| describe the caucasus region |
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| mild and moist, supports sub tropical crops |
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| what is the differnce between the new economic policy and the 5 year plan? |
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the NEP was created by Lenin.
It was to help the economy.
Less strict.
The 5 year plan was made by Stalin.
It was to try and modernize Russia.
Very strict and made everyone go on collective farms, forced labor |
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