JEOPARDY #1RUSSIA

GEOGRAPHY

MATTERS DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS - Curious or Spurious!

LARGE &

IN CHARGE

Institutions Terminology Pot Luck

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GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 100

• Lg. territory , but much of the land is unusable

• Shortness of growing season

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 100

What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 200

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 - 300

What is the Caucasus?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 400

Russian Republic full of ethnic separatist who’ve engaged in

two wars with Russia

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 400

What is Chechnya?

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 500

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 - 500

What is the “near abroad”?

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100

• Ethnic Russians are often in the minority in Russia’s various regions and republics.

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100

What is CURIOUS?

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200

Modern political parties in the Russian Federation are highly ideological and are generally

conservative vs. reform oriented.

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200

What is SPURIOUS?

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300

Most ethnic Russians are devout members of the

Russian Orthodox Church.

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300

What is SPURIOUS?

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400

The Russian population is predominantly rural.

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400

What is SPURIOUS? (73% urban)

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500

NATIONALITY is a bit of a “sticky wicket” in Russia

because the country has about fifty different ethnic groups.

DEMOGRAPHY

MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500

What is SPURIOUS?

(over 100!)

Large and In Charge - 100

Khrushchev’s successor

Large and In Charge - 100

Who is Leonid Brezhnev?

Large and In Charge - 200

YURI ANDROPOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO

Large and In Charge - 200

Who are Brezhnev’s two short-lived geriatric successors

Large and In Charge - 300

1st popularly elected President of Russia; stood on the tanks

in the face of the 1991 attempted coup

Large and In Charge - 300

Who is BorisYeltsin?

Large and In Charge - 400

Current Russian Prime Minister, he’s Putin’s “pet”; elected President of the Russian

Federation in 2008

Large and In Charge - 400

Who is DMITRY MEDVEDEV ?

Large and In Charge - 500

Two key terrorist acts which allowed Putin to further centralize power in the

Russian presidency

Large and In Charge - 500

What are 1. The Beslan school attack

2. The Moscow theater hostage situation

INSTITUTIONS - 100

Institutional power center in USSR

INSTITUTIONS - 100

What is the POLITBURO?

INSTITUTIONS - 200

Upper and Lower houses of the Russian legislature

INSTITUTIONS - 200

What are the1. Duma

2. Federation Council?

INSTITUTIONS - 300

the Central State Planning Commission which managed the Soviet economy

INSTITUTIONS - 300

What is GOSPLAN?

INSTITUTIONS - 400

It exercises judicial review

INSTITUTIONS - 400

What is the Constitutional Court?

INSTITUTIONS - 500

1. Highest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law and

2. Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes

INSTITUTIONS - 500

What are1. The Supreme Court and2. The Supreme Arbitration

Court?

TERMINOLOGY - 100

Marx’s terms for workers and for owners of means of production

& distribution of goods and services

TERMINOLOGY - 100

What are 1. PROLETARIAT &2. BOURGEOISIE ?

TERMINOLOGY - 200

the tendency to look to a strong state for protection and

problem-solving

TERMINOLOGY - 200

What is STATISM?

TERMINOLOGY - 300

sudden and drastic economic reform in tandem with

democratic political reform

TERMINOLOGY - 300

What is “shock therapy”?

Just in Case - 400

Gorby’s programs:1. Openness

2. Economic liberalization

TERMINOLOGY - 400

What are1. GLASNOST &

2. PERESTROIKA

TERMINOLOGY - 500

1. individuals who are part of the Communist Party apparatus;

2. party members listed and, thus “named” for advancement within the system

TERMINOLOGY - 500

What are1. Apparatchiks2. nomenclatura

POT LUCK - 100

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

POT LUCK - 100

What are the Russian presidential powers?

POT LUCK - 200

During 1917 Revolution• meant “minority” but described the

majority; • meant “majority” but described minority

POT LUCK! - 200

What are1. MENSHEVIKS &

2. BOLSHEVIKS

POT LUCK - 300

Type of system set up by the Russian Constitution of 1993 and country whose system

served as its paradigm

POT LUCK - 300

What are1. semi-presidential (hybrid presidential-parliamentary) &

2. France?

POT LUCK - 400

Russian tradition which impedes East-West cooperation

(i.e., Kosovo)

POT LUCK - 400

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?