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air and water of Russian domain
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polluted due to industrialization during soviet union
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rivers of russia
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linked together by canals; easier transportation; trade and navigation
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western russia
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more densely populated
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russian migration population
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european russians moed east across siberean frontier frontier for agricultural opportunities
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russia produces...
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...petroleum!
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nationalist laws
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have to learn a bunch of languages... estonian, latvian
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autonomous areas:
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Political sub-units created in the former Soviet Union designed to recognize minorities
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tatarstan
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centralized economic planning
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State controlled production targets and industrial output
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U.S. during WW1 by having the food administration, fuel administration, or the railroad administration
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chernozem soil
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Fertile soils found in steppe environments (wheat, corn, sugar beets)
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Eastern Croatia, and along the Danube
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exclave
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portions of a country’s territory that lies outside its contiguous land area
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East Prussia (that random piece of Russia below Lithuania)
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glasnost
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The policy of greater openness during the 1980’s
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podzol soil
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Acidic soils that limit the ability of the region to support a productive agricultural society
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(rye, oats, wheat)
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perestroika
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Restructuring of the planned centralized economy
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permafrost
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Frozen soil.
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Found in northern Russia in the tundra.
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privatization
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Program offered to Russians to buy private agricultural lands as well as industrial companies, but this left the gap between poor and affluent areas even bigger
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russian government changed to private and Soviet Union had a lot of assets they sold off
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Russification
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Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-russian portions of Soviet Union. This changed the human geography of Russia
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Kazakhstan has large % of Russians.
russian language and culture ethnic divisions |
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taiga
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Found below the tundra in Russia
AKA coniferous forest |
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Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz
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communal farms in Soviet Union
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Kolkhoz: communal farm owned by people
Sovkhoz: communal farm run by government |
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Tatarstan and Chechnya
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want independence
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Tatarstan has oil and river control, chechnya has main pipeline and railroad and highway (Russia can’t afford to lose that)
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population change in russia
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less males due to the war
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fertility rates are lower in russia
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russia climate
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colder than the US
Tundra in the north taiga in the middle (largest section) diversified agricult. in the west large scale grain product. in south mountains in far south |
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russia agriculture
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north: too cold for trees; tundra vegetaion (mosses, lichens, few flowering plants)
south: rocks with minerals permafrost: problems |
far east: longer growing seasons and milder climates
extreme south: (the cacasus and transcaucasia) flat then hills then caucasus mts transcaucasia: farther south: rainfall higher |
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heartland; theory of mcquery
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if someone controls this they control russia; then the east; then the world
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russia controls it now
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balkans
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bakan penninusula; southeast europe
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many linguistic families here
-slavic, romance, hellenic, albanian, and turkic main religion: catholic christianity and sunni islam |
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balkanization
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country breaking into smaller ones
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kazakistan: large amount of russians in it
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fertile triangle
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agriculture success
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in the south/western side of russia
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st petersburg
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port in russia
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freezes over and cant be used for a lot of the time
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estonia
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wants to break out of the Soviet Union!!!
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russian minority
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ukraine: russians went to the penninsula with the big port
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tourism
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moldova
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seperatist regions
independent regions russification |
trans dniester Republic: want to be independent; russian not moldovian
russia supports thier rights but wont let them leave |
