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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?