1. Russia’s Historical Legacy: Part I

5. Central Russia

6. Volga River

7. Southern Russia

8. Russia’s prairies: The Steppe

9. Russia’s Black Sea coast

10. The Russian Caucasus: Mount Elbrus

11. Siberian taiga

12. Russian winter

13. The Russian Arctic

14. Altai Mountains: foothills of the Himalayas

15. The Russian Far East: Kamchatka Peninsula

16. Russia’s Pacific Coast

18. Moscow Kremlin Moscow, Kremlin: the center of Russian state power

19. St. Petersburg, Russia’s “second capital”

21. The State Emblem of the Russian Federation

24. Russia’s major assets Territory – size and position Natural resources Transportation networks Industrial base Science and education Nuclear weapons Space program

25. 7th largest economy, expected to become No.5 within a decade 1/3 or more of global natural resources A nuclear superpower A space superpower A permanent member of UNSC A member of G8 A key international actor across Eurasia (involved in more international organizations and projects than any other state except US)

28. Security-development ratios Costs of development and security: four basic modes of interaction D-costs high, S-costs high (Russia) D-costs low, S-costs low (USA, Canada) D-costs high, S-costs low (Scandinavia) D-costs low, S-costs high (?)

29. Russia is 1,200 years old It has existed in 6 historical forms:  Kiev Rus (9th-13th centuries)  Domain of the Tatar-Mongol empire (13th-15th centuries)  The Moscow State (15th-17th centuries)  The Russian Empire (18th century-1917)  The Soviet Union (1917-1991)  The Russian Federation (1991- today)

30. Key questions re Russia’s historical legacy: State-society relations: patterns and balances Forms of state authority The state’s role in the economy Role of civil society institutions: market economy, religion, rule of law Role of ideology Freedom and order

31. RUSSIA 1 Kiev Rus The Slavic-Viking project

32. Slav migrations: 5 th -7 th centuries

34. Viking longboats on their way south across Slavic lands to Constantinople

35. A Viking-Slav encounter, painting by V. Vasnetsov

36. Kiev Rus

37. Riurik, a Viking chief, the first Grand Prince of Kiev (9 th century)

38. Russia’s medieval democracy: veche, the city assembly

39. Contact with the Eastern Roman Empire: Constantinople, 10 th century

40. The Second Rome: Hagia Sophia Cathedral, Constantinople

41. The baptism of Prince Vladimir (painting by M Vasnetsov)

42. 988 CE: Russians are converted to the new faith

43. Destruction of pagan gods

44. “The Golden- Haired Saviour” (Russian icon, 13 th century)

45. Power patterns in Russia 1 Kiev Rus became a major European state in a century Security costs moderate Development costs moderate Balance between state and society A robust market economy Democratic political institutions A state church sharing power with the Grand Prince Key flaw: Feudal fragmentation, constant struggles for power among proliferating princes Vulnerability to massive invasions