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Pot Pourri
100
This mountain range serves as a geographic barrier betwen Europe and Asia (but not really, it's pretty easy to cross)
What are the Ural Mountains
100
This regent utilized the streltsy to support her causes of maintaining family power over russia.
What is Sophia.
100
Name and describe the three interpretations of the Soviet Revolution.
Soviet Interpretation: It was bound to happen propaganda it's all good blah blah blah. The Liberal Interpretation: Seizure of an Opportunity by the bolsheviks, a skilled and brutal minority to take over. Libertarian Interpretation: Gave the workers more credit, it was all a good ol' marxist uprising until Lenin and pals came and ruined it.
100
Who came after Joseph Asshat Stalin? and after him?
Who is Nikita Khruschev/ Leonid Brezhnev
100
Stabilized the russian economy after the transition economy, oversaw the second Chechen war
Vladimir Putin (Shirtless sniper rifle weilding badass)
200
State the progression of tribes (kingdoms) that inhabited the Russian Territories
Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatian (Germanic Goths followed)
200
Who westernized Russia?
Peter I (Peter the Great)
200
The two leaders of the Provisional government:
Lvov and Kerensky
200
What was the nomenklatura
The deranged manifestation of communism: communist party leaders who take advantage of the system.
200
Came after Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
300
What is the Appanage period?
Period in which the Russian sovereigns gave their powers to close family members rather than the first born. Led to social fragmentation.
300
A committee of religious leaders supervised by a secular official. First time orthodox church was overruled by authority of the state.
What is the Holy Snod
300
The three steps of Hegel's dialectic:
Thesis-->antithesis-->synthesis
300
This made both the US and the USSR not want to fire nuclear weapons
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
300
Freedom House Gave Modern Russia a ___ (1 being most free, 7 least free)
What is a 5.5
400
Who introduced Orthodox Chirstianity to Russia?
Prince Vladimir
400
This event changed Catherine the Great's mind about abolishing serfdom. (bonus: which enlightenment thinker did Catherine keep correspondance with?)
What is the Pugachev Revolution. (Voltaire)
400
Marx's historical materialism's basic foundations
Base: foundation of society. Superstructure: Whatever rests upon the base (culture, politics)
400
Two events which almost sparked the use of nuclear weapons.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis and Able Archer 83
400
Russia's second oldest political party, "returning russia to the russians"
LDPR, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
500
State the progression (and traits of each reign if possible) of the Russian tzars starting at Ivan III and ending with Gudonov.
Ivan III, took reign after Vasili II died. Responsible of assertion of Russian independence from the Mongols. Subjugated Novogrod. Ivan IV (the terrible) was made paranoid by the Boyars behavior. Consolidated a lot of government. Military overhauled. Created oprichniki and issued Oprichnina. Ivan V murdered. Theorore took over, basically a weak minded, religious, political puppet of Gudonov. Gudonov took the power from him when he died heirless (Gudonov killed Theodore's son). False Dmitrii fiasco.
500
Who abolished Serfdom? (Bonus: Which monarch was made paranoid by the Decembrist revolt?) (Double bonus: what revolutionary group was responsible for the assasination of the emancipationer of the serfs?)
Who is Alexander II/ Nicholas I/ The Will Of The People
500
Lenin advocated the concept of... (this modified Marxism to make Leninism)
Democratic centralism: everyone is equal except the party members. (ANIMAHL FAHHRM)
500
Name of the leader of Polish Solidarity (Bonus, name of the leader of the Velvet revolution)
Lech Welesa, Vaclav Havel
500
Boris Yeltsin's economic reform name
Shock therapy. (Cue video of Boris Yeltsin dancing)
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