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How does Russia compare in size to other countries?
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Russia is the largest country in the world, it stretches across europe and asia
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What were progroms?
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Pogroms were organized persecution and massacres. Jews were targets of this during czarist times
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What religions are represented in Russia? Which ones were most popular?
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Russian Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism
Most russian's are russian orthox and islam is the second largest |
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What are teh causes of poor water quality in Russia?`
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Industrialization polluted it, Fertilizer run-off, sewage, radioactive material, pollution, dams
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What are the threee major ethic groups in Russia?
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sLAVS, caucasian, turkish
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Who are the different people who make up the slavs
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ethnic russians, poles, serbs, ukranians, other eastern europeans
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What people make up the caucasian group
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chechens, dagestans, Igushetians
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What people make up the turkish people
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tartars, chuvash, bashkirs, sakha
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Who is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn>
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wrote the book Golag Archipelago which talked about the consequences of not following socialist realism
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What are the major landforms on the kamchatka peninsula
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Klyuchevskaya Sopka Mtn
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How can a communist government use the arts to get what they want
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communist governments can do whatever they want and they can limit the arts and artistic expression, they believed it was the artists duty to glorify govs achievement and those who didnt follow the guidelines got punished
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What was the importance of religion b4 the soviet union
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christianty was the official religion, religion waS PRETTY IMPORTATN
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What was the importance of relgiion during the soviet union
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the soviets encouraged athiesm
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What was teh importance of religion after the soviet era
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lawmakers relaxed on relgion, allowed full relgiious liberty to the main relgiions of russia and lots of relgions are reemerging
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What are the different climates found in russia?
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Subartic, tundra, humid continental, steppe
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What is the tundra?
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vast treeless plain, temp normally below freezing, 10% of Russia, thin acidic soil
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What is teh subartic regi0n of russia
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south of tundra, snow covers ground, 1/3 of taiga is here, forest
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what is the humid continental region of russia`
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more favorable climate, soil is more fetile, ideal for growing crops, such as sunglowers, sugar beets, wheat
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What is the steppe climate
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temperate, dry summers, long dry winters, enable many plants to grow here
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Why are there so many climates in russia?
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Russia is huge and it covers a large amount of area so there are different climates in different areas
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How do the different climates in russia affect human acitivity?
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IT AFFECTS where people want to live and what kind of crops can be grown where
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What was the cold war about>
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it was the struggle between communist and capitalist systems for world influence and power, it was the build up of nuclear power. it wasnt actually a war it was really just a bunch of threats and trying to scare the other side with the amount of weapons they had
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How long was the cold war
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`1947-1991 (4 decades)
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Who made Orthodox christianity the religion of russia?
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`Pre-soviet empire... it was prince vladimir
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what is perestroika?
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restructuring, part of gorbachev's plan for reforming soviet economy and government
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what is kolkhoz
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in the soviet union, a small farm worked by farmers who shared in the farms production and profits
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Who were the bolsheviks?
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a revolutionary group led by lenin- believed in communism-- society led by workers
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What is russification
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encouraged people to speak russian and follow eastern othodox christianity
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What is glasnost?
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a policy of political openness
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What is an ethnic group?
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a group that shares a common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or a combination of these things
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market economy
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an economy in which businesses are privately owned and production and prices are determined by suply and demand
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command economy
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system of resource management in which the decision of what products to sell and such are made by the governemtn
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What is communism
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society based on equality in which workers control industrial production
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black market
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illegal trade of scarce or illegal goods usually sold at unreasonably high prices
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czar
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ruler of russia until the 1917 revolution
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nationality
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large, distinct ethnic group within a country
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permafrost
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permenantly frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground
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sovkhoz
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large farm owned and run by state
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socialism
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political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
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privatization
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a change to private ownership of state owned companies and industries
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