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Ethnic group
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shares a common ancestry, language, religion, or set of custons, or a combination of them.
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Nationalities
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large, distinct ethnic groups within a country
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Sovereigty
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self rule
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Ethnic groups:
How many ethnic groups have their own republics or administrative territories in Russia? |
32 ethnic groups have their own republics or administrative territories
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Slavs:
Slavs include which group? which group has a historically dominated the country's politics and culture? |
includes the Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, and other eastern Europeans. the russian slavs have dominated the country's politics and cultrue.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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third latgest christian church after Roman Catholics and prodestant. 240 million members world wide
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Turkic peoples:
Where does Russia's second largest ethnic group live? what religion is dominant here? what groups are considered Turkic? |
live in the Caucasus area, siberia, middle volga area. religion that is most dominant is Muslim. groups concidard Trukic are Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, and Sakha.
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Caucasian peoples:
where does this diverse gruop of peoples live? |
live in the Caucasus region of southeastern Russia
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Population:
where does Russia rank among the world's populations? what is its population? what is the average population density? why is this figure misleading? |
population is about 145.5 million people in and area of about 6.6 million square miles. average population density is about 22 people per square mile. figure is misleading because the population can be condenced in one area of Russia and not completely spread out.
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Siberia:
How much of Russia's territory is called Siberia? what percent of Russia's population live there |
75% of Russia's land area is Siberia but only 25% of Russia's population lives in Siberia.
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Population Trends:
decribe Russia's population crises. |
experiencing a population crises because of rise in illness and the quality and avalibility of health care being on the decline.
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Czar
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ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
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Serf
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laborer obliged to remain on the land where he or she works
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Russification
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in nineteenth century Russia, a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a christian. (Alexander II)
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Socialism
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political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
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Bolshevik
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a revolutionary group in Russia lead by Vladimir Llyich Lenin
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Communism
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society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
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Satellite
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a country controlled by another country, notably Eastern European Countries controlled by the Soviet Union by the end of WWII
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Cold War
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power struggle between the soviet union and the us or between two super powers
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Perestroika
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in Russian, restructuring, part of Gorbachev's plan for reforming Soviet government
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Glasnost
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Russian term for a new openness, part of Mikhail Gorbackev's reform plans
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Bolshevik Dream:
what was the Bational Geographic author referring to? |
to the end of the Bolshevik dream and having a classless society
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Slavs:
what ten distinct cultural groups make up the Slavic peoples? |
Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Serbs, Slovenes,Russians Ukrainians, and Belarusians
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Kievan Rus:
what was the Kievan Rus? what happened to it? |
organized by the Varangians it was ment to organize slav communities into a loose union of city states. ruled by princes. fighting among the city states weakened it . early 1200's Mongol invaders from Central Asia took over
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Muscovy:
how did it originate? |
by slavs that fled and settled in the city of Moscow
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Ivan the Great:
what did he do to earn his title? |
by bringing many Slav's territories uner his control and built the Kremlin seat of the Russian Government.
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Ivan the Terrible:
what did he do to earn his title? |
by being ruthless and creating foreign invasion, economic decline, and social upheaval.
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