Russia's Ethnic Diversity
Density and Distribution
Early Peoples and States
Soviet Era
Cultures and Lifestyles
100
official language of Russia
What is Russian?
100
Percent of Russians living in European Russia (Between Belarus and Ukraine and the Ural Mountains)
What is 75%?
100
Loose union of city-states organized by Scandinavian warriors.
What is Kievan Rus?
100
Which revolutionary group wanted a society led by workers
Who are the Bolsheviks?
100
Second-largest religion in Russia.
What is Islam?
200
Percent of Russia's population that are ethnic Russians.
What is 80%
200
Main factor influencing Russia's population distribution.
What is physical environment?
200
Ruler of Russia until 1917
What is a czar?
200
Struggle between the US and Soviet Union which avoided outright conflict
What is the cold war?
200
Harshly persecuted during czarist times
Who are the Jewish people?
300
Larger group ethnic Russians are a part of.
What are Slavs?
300
Population density of European Russia.
What is 120 people/sq mi?
300
Who was the first crowned czar?
Who is Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)?
300
What the Russian Revolution of 1917 established.
What is a representative government?
300
Their influence was weakened by the Soviet Union during the 1900s
What is the orthodox church?
400
Russia's second-largest ethnic group.
What are the Turkic people?
400
Self-rule
What is sovereignty?
400
Enlarged territory, built a strong military, and developed trade with Europe
Who is Peter the Great?
400
Russian term for a new "openness"
What is Glasnost?
400
Russia's literacy rate
What is nearly 100%?
500
Group demanding independence or local self rule
Who are the Caucasian people?
500
Russia's average population density.
What is 22 people/sq mi?
500
Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
What is socialism?
500
Threatened Russia's stability after the fall of the Soviet Union
What are separatist movements?
500
Education focus under communist rule.
What is military, science, and engineering?
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