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Eastern Europe 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point USSR Eastern Europe Former Soviet Republics Post Soviet Eurasia Current Leaders Wild Card 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 2 Point 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 6 Points 6 Points 6 Points 6 Points 6 Points 6 Points 8 Points 8 Points 8 Points 8 Points 8 Points 8 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points
Restoring freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and press
Glasnost
Restructuring the Soviet economy, government, and military
Perostroika
1991 event that temporarily removed Gorbachev from power
August Coup
Policy to stop any satellite moving away from Communism
Brezhnev Doctrine
Harsh Soviet leader 1964-1982
Leonid Brezhnev
Polish trade union that helped collapse Communism
Solidarity
Its long-time Communist leader Janos Kadar left in 1988; it joined NATO in 1999 and EU 2004; much economic growth
Hungary
He was the first noncommunist leader of Czechoslovakia.
Vaclav Havel
This country has had close ties to Austria, Germany, and Italy after independence from Yugoslavia; member of EU and NATO; very successful.
Slovenia
Fate of Romanian dictator Ceausescu
He and his wife were both executed after being convicted of treason after a brief civil war in Romania.
These are all major social problems in Russia today.
Organized crime, TB, alcoholism, drugs
Most economically successful former Soviet republics, at least until the recent recession.
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
Extremely poor European, former Soviet republic’s economy relies heavily on imported energy and on agriculture, including the production of wine, vegetables, tobacco and fruit.
Moldova
They had the 2005 Orange revolution. It failed.
Ukraine
Currently economically unified with Russia; they use market socialism as their economy and have made no political reforms since independence.
Belarus
Region fought over between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh
This former Soviet republic had a civil war when Abkhazia and Ossetia tried to break away from it. Later in 2008, Russia invaded them over the same places.
Georgia
This former Soviet republic had the Pink revolution in 2005. It failed This former Soviet republic had the Pink revolution in 2005. It failed. They had another revolution in 2010.
Kyrgyzstan
This former Soviet republic benefits from their huge resources of oil in the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan
Rising population and urban growth, lack of democratic reform, volatile resource prices, falling water supply, religious and ethnic tensions, pollution
What are problems associated with former Soviet republics in Central Asia?
Russia
Vladimir Putin
Poland
Ewa Kopecz
Germany
Angela Merkel
France
Francois Hollande
Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev
They rely heavily on the export of cotton, gold, and oil; this former Soviet republic continues to use Soviet practices in its economy and has been accused of torturing Al-Qaeda suspects.
Uzbekistan
A civil war in this former Soviet republic left 40,000 dead, and ½ their intelligentsia fled.
Tajikistan
Although they’ve made many progressive reforms towards capitalism, in this former Soviet republic that just had another revolution, 55% of their workers produce cotton, tobacco, wool, and meat.
Kyrgyzstan
Leader of Turkmenistan; made President for Life in 1999; died 2006, but replaced with another dictator.
Saparmurat Niyazov
They people of this former Soviet republic have Iranian heritage and limited arable land and mineral resources.
Tajikistan
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