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57 Cards in this Set
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Which mountain range,rising to the west of the Western Siberian Plains, seperates Surope from Asia? |
URAL-1
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Which mountain range would you have to cross to travel by land from Northern Iran to Moscow? |
CAUCASUS-2
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What is the enormous peninsula in eastern Siberia that extends into the Berin Sea? |
KAMCHATKA-3
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Which ocean lies north of Russia? |
ARCTIC OCEAN-4
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Which body is the of water that borders Sweden, Russia, and Poland? |
BALTIC SEA-5
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What is the body of water that borders both Iran and Russia? |
CASPIAN-6
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In which body of water are islands of US and Russia seperated by only a few miles?
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BERING SEA- 7
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Into what body of water lies east of the Caspian Sea? |
ARAL-8
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What body of water do theVolga nad Dieper rivers flow? |
BLACK SEA-9
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What river flows past Moscow to the Caspian Sea? |
VOLGA-10
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Which river flows through the cities of Smolusk and Kies empties into the Black Sea?
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Dnieper-11
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Which major river flows into the Black sea, is west of the Volga River, and is east of the Dnieper River? |
Don-12
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Which river flows through the middle of the Western Siberian Plains? |
OB-13
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What river flows through the Ural Mountains into the Caspian Sea? |
URAL RIVER-14
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Which plains lies east of the Ural Mountains? |
Western Siberians-15
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Which plateau lies east of the Ob River? |
Central Siberian-16
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Which major Russian City borders the Baltic Sea? |
St. Petersburg-17
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What is the capital of Russia? |
Moscow-18
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Ivan the Terrible(4)
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1-Trusted no one
2-Subject to violent rits of rage 3-Tied serfs to land 4-Used OPRICHNIKI as agents of terror |
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Peter the Great(5)
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1-7feet tall
2-Expanded Navy 3-Brought Euro-culture to Russia 4-Failed to name heir 5-Created St. Petersburg |
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Katherine the Great(3)
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1-At her height, she was ruler of the largest empire on Earth
2-Saught to bring the ideals of the Enlightenment to Russia until she found out about Louis the 16th and Marie Antionette's death 3-Set out to kill her husband for the throne |
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Alexander I(2)
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1-Defeated Napolean Bonaparte in 1812.
2- Lost to England and France in the Crimean War |
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Alexander II(2)
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1-1861. emapncipated the serfs
2-Assasinated by People's Will |
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Nicholas II (3)
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1-Married Alexandria
2-Had a son with hemophillia and tried to keep it hidden 3-The last Czar of the Romonov |
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CAPITALISM(3)...who was most likely to run their Russia like this? MArx,Nicholas II, or Lennin?
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1)Private ownership of industry
2)Freedom of competition 3)Results in unequal economic classes NICHOLAS II |
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Class struggle as result from Capitalism
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Upper class and working class struggle wealth
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Workers revolt as result from Capitalism
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Working class carries out plan to overtake the upperclass
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SOCIALISM(3)...who was most likely to run their Russia like this? MArx,Nicholas II, or Lennin?
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1)Government ownership of undistry
2)Goal is to bring econimic equality 3)Aims for a classless society ***TRYING TO ACHIEVE A GOAL*** MARX |
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COMMUNISM(2)...who was most likely to run their Russia like this? MArx,Nicholas II, or Lennin?
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1)Classless society
2)No government needed ***ACHIEVED GOAL*** LENIN |
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Totalitarianism
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A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every espect of citizens lives.
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Mensheviks
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anti-communists, usually working class RED
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Bolsheviks
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Communists,usually upper class WHITE
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Soviets
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Councils of workers and soliders
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Brest-Litovsk
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Treaty Russia signed in 1918 to drop out of WW1
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Whites
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Those who wanted to continue war in Germany
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Reds
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Armed factory workers who attacked the provisional government
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War Communism
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Instituted by Lenin to win the Civil War, which allowed the State to appropriate grain or property as needed.
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What is NEP and what does it stand for?
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New Economic Policy=taking on step back and two steps forward, a response to the failure of war communism as Lenin described
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The Trans-Siberian Railroad
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A railroad stretching from Moscow to Vladivostock
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Kremlin**************
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Duma
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Elected national legistlature
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Cheka
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Secret police organized by communists
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Gulags
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Forced work camps
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Proletariat
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Working class
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Boureoisie
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The middle class
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Trotsky
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Assisted Lenin with further Marxist revolutionsry work
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Kerensky****************
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Bloody Sunday
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The tsar's police killed hundreds of peacful marchers in St. Petersburg.
RESULTS? The soviets formed (radical workers' council) and the Tsar sent the Duma to fight back. |
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Faberge Eggs
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Nicholas II got one every year at Easter
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Communist Manifesto
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A pamphlet written by Marx and Engles in 1848 predicting the new wave of communism to hit Russia
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Vladimir (**Iyich) Ulyanov
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Lenin
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"Workers of the World Unite."-???
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Karl Marx
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What was the city of St. Petersburg changed to?
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Changed to Petrograd-->Leningrad-->St. Petersburg
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What book did Leon Toltsoy write?
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Anna Korinina
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The only song
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March Slav by Peter Tchaikovsky
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Rasputin
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Gains power with Tsarina's back to court
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March Revolution
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To get food because of the war, workers were hungry
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