JEOPARDY #1 RUSSIA

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS - Curious or Spurious! LARGE & IN CHARGE InstitutionsTerminologyPot Luck

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS Lg. territory, but much of the land is unusableLg. territory, but much of the land is unusable Shortness of growing season

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 100 What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 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 MATTERS 200 What is a warm-water port?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 300 Geographic area within Russia in which widespread ethnic separatism threatens the loss of republics and autonomous regions

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS What is the Caucasus?

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

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 400 What is Chechnya?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 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 What is the “near abroad”?

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

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? What is CURIOUS?

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

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? What is SPURIOUS?

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

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? What is SPURIOUS?

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

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? What is SPURIOUS? (73% urban)

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? NATIONALITY is a bit of a “sticky wicket” in Russia because the country has about fifty different ethnic groups.

DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? What is SPURIOUS? (over 100!)

Large and In Charge Khrushchev’s successor

Large and In Charge Who is Leonid Brezhnev?

Large and In Charge YURI ANDROPOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO

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

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

Large and In Charge Who is BorisYeltsin?

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

Large and In Charge Who is DMITRY MEDVEDEV ?

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

Large and In Charge What are 1.The Beslan school attackThe Beslan school attack 2.The Moscow theater hostage situationThe Moscow theater hostage situation

INSTITUTIONS Institutional power center in USSR

INSTITUTIONS What is the POLITBURO?

INSTITUTIONS Upper and Lower houses of the Russian legislature

INSTITUTIONS What are the 1.DumaDuma 2.Federation Council?Federation Council?

INSTITUTIONS the Central State Planning Commission which managed the Soviet economy

INSTITUTIONS What is GOSPLAN?

INSTITUTIONS It exercises judicial review

INSTITUTIONS What is the Constitutional Court?

INSTITUTIONS Highest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law andHighest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law and 2. Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes

INSTITUTIONS What are 1.The Supreme Court andThe Supreme Court and 2.The Supreme Arbitration Court?The Supreme Arbitration Court?

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

TERMINOLOGY What are 1.PROLETARIAT &PROLETARIAT & 2. BOURGEOISIE ? BOURGEOISIE ?

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

TERMINOLOGY What is STATISM?

TERMINOLOGY sudden and drastic economic reform in tandem with democratic political reform

TERMINOLOGY What is “shock therapy”?

Just in Case Gorby’s programs: 1.OpennessOpenness 2. Economic liberalization

TERMINOLOGY What are 1.GLASNOST &GLASNOST & 2.PERESTROIKAPERESTROIKA

TERMINOLOGY individuals who are part of the Communist Party apparatus; 2. party members listed and, thus “named” for advancement within the system

TERMINOLOGY What are 1.ApparatchiksApparatchiks 2.nomenclaturanomenclatura

POT LUCK Call referendums, Call parliamentary elections, appoint judges, appoint the prime minister, dissolve the Duma issue decrees

POT LUCK What are the Russian presidential powers?

POT LUCK During 1917 Revolution meant “minority” but described the majority;meant “minority” but described the majority; meant “majority” but described minority

POT LUCK ! What are 1.MENSHEVIKS &MENSHEVIKS & 2.BOLSHEVIKSBOLSHEVIKS

POT LUCK Type of system set up by the Russian Constitution of 1993 and country whose system served as its paradigm

POT LUCK What are 1.semi-presidential (hybrid presidential-parliamentary) &semi-presidential (hybrid presidential-parliamentary) & 2.France?France?

POT LUCK Russian tradition which impedes East-West cooperation (i.e., Kosovo)

POT LUCK What is slavophile v. Westernizer?

POT LUCK 500 Russian oil co. which was forced into bankruptcy and essentially taken over by the state when CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky (richest man in Russia) was arrested

POT LUCK 500 What is Yukos?