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people and cultures
russia and regions
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Geography
Undergraduate 2
10/18/2011

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Term
Russia
Definition
Use to be the USSR in 1991 split into 15 different countires.
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Size
Definition
Russian realm is big, 8.5 million square miles, 11 time zones,
sparcely populated 280 million
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population breakdown
Definition
Russia 142 million
Ukraine 47 million
Uzbekistan 27 million
average population density of 32 people per square miles
Term
climate
Definition
harsh, contintental. long cold winters, short warm summers, little precipitation
taiga: largest contingous forest
Term
Tsarist Russsia
Definition
(1500s-1800s)
-detatched ruling class
-serfdom of peseants
-explotation of workers in industrial revolution
Term
Soviet Revolution
Definition
1905-1917 led by lenin
Term
USSR
Definition
formed in 1925.
creation of ASSRs (autonomous soviet socialist republicts)
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Russification
Definition
A rissoam attempt to implant russian culture into non russian regions.
Term
the soviet union
Definition
(1924-1991)
-Centrally planned economics
-production of particular manafactured goods in particular places
-economic interdependence=national unity?
-labor compensation not based on productivity
-money not the problem, just nothing to buy
-centralized, no flexibility
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soviet leaders
Definition
Lenin (18-27)
Stalin (27-53)
Kruschev (53-64)
Brezhnev (64-82)
Gorbachev (85-91)
Perestroika: tried to restructure economy to keep up with the west
Glastnost: encouraged opennes in internatikonal affairs
Term
Soviet Union Economic and Political collapse
Definition
Growth was around 10% in the 1950s, 7% in the 1960s, 5% in the 1970s, and 2% in the 1980s
-capital was sank in unproductive activites (military)
-the country went bankrupt
Term
Post-Soviet Russia
Definition
Soviet union collapsed in 1991 (Second Russian Revolution)
-Gorbachev- Boris Yeltsin
economic shock therapy: rapid replacement of communism with free market capitalism
-GDP shrank, rampant inflation, high unemployment
-privatization of previously state-owned industries
Term
Who had benefitted from the period of misdevelopment?
Definition
Oligarchs
organized crime
Term
Corruption
Kleptocracy
Definition
Economic and political system based on organized crime
-underground economy (black market) flourished
Term
Oligarchs
Definition
Russia's leading business people. Fabulously wealthy and powerful
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Oil and gas
Definition
(2000s boom)
-25% of national economy
-27 percent of world's natural gas
-2nd largest oil exporter in the world (behind Saudi Arabia)
-State controlled energy companies
-too dependent on a single commodity?
Term
Vladimir Putin
Definition
PResident 200-2008
prime minister 2008-2011
predisent- 2012-2024?
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