Physical Geography
This region of Russia includes everything east of the Ural mountains
What is Asian Russia?
The year of the Russian Revolution
What is the year 1917?
The name of the court that examines whether federal/regional laws comply with the Russian Constitution
What is the Constitutional Court?
The year the USSR collapsed
What is 1991?
Most of Russia's GDP is created in and around this city...
What is Moscow?
The region of Russia in which most Russians live
What is Northern European Russia?
What is the...
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Regular provinces that don't represent a specific ethnic group
What is an oblast?
The term that means a church is overseen by bishops and not a singular pope...
What is Episcopal?
Percentage of native Russians living in Russia
What is 80%?
A layer of soil or rock that remains frozen year-round, found in cold regions like Siberia.
What is permafrost?
What is...
Export grain to fund rapid industrial growth within the Soviet Union
Name of Russia's bicameral legislature
What is the Federal Assembly?
The Eastern Orthodox view of salvation in which mankind becomes "united with God."
What is Theosis?
When governments transfer ownership of businesses to private individuals...
What is privatization?
The largest flatland region that stretches across Europe in which a majority of Russia's population lives
What is the Great European Plain?
Introduction of "free market" (capitalist) policies into the Soviet Union...
What is "Perestroika" (Restructuring)?
# of those who serve in the State Duma & # of those who serve in the Federation Council
What is...
State Duma: 450
Federation Council: 170
Two powerful countries fight each other indirectly by supporting different sides in another country's war
What is a proxy war?
The term for when an economy shifts from a command economy (socialist economy where the government plans all economic activity) to a market/capitaist economy
What is a transition economy?
Extreme temperature variations due to land being far from large bodies of water
What is continentality?
What is...
Commonwealth of Independent States?
What is a Federal Semi-Presidential Republic?
*Make sure you know what each of these terms mean
Event in which the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba...
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Winston Churchill's term he coined in a speech about the ideological division between Western Europe and the USSR
What is the Iron Curtain?