Russ-200 Final Review Game

Rulers

100

He was the first President of Russia

Boris Yeltsin

200

This was the czar who created the first Russian Parliament

Nicholas II

300

This ruler reformed the military and the civil service and created a systematic Table of Ranks

Peter I ("the Great")

400

This Soviet leader waged a massive anti-alcohol campaign

Mikhail Gorbachev

500

This ruler loved the Enlightenment philosophy and corresponded with the French thinkers Voltaire and Diderot

Catherine II ("the Great")

Cultural Typologies

100

This American scholar introduced the concepts of "High Context" and "Low Context" cultures

Edward Hall

200

Trompenaars' "diffuse" and "specific" cultures can also be described with this metaphor.

"Coconut" and "peach" cultures

300

In Hofstede's study the US scored 91, the highest in the world, on this cultural parameter

Individualism

400

"Mastery", "Harmony", and "Submissiveness" are three types of relationships between these two entities

Humans and Nature

500

On Inglehart's "World Values Map" the vertical axis is "traditional values vs secular values."  The horizontal axis signifies THESE two groups of values.

"survival values" vs "self-expression values"

Social Issues

100

This is the "ideal" number of children mentioned in many public service announcements promoting higher birth rates

three

200

Soviet propaganda during THIS historical period focused primarily on the shortcomings of capitalism and exploitation of the working classes by the wealthy imperialist elites

the Cold War (or 1950s-1980s)

300

This is the SECOND most popular religion in Russia

Islam

400

This important law related to women's rights was passed in 1920

Abortion was legalized

500

This important law related to LGBTQ rights was passed in Russia in 1993

Homosexuality was decriminalized/ Article 121 of the Criminal Code was repealed

National Identity

100

This "Russian national tree" symbolizes, among many things, the beauty and grace of Russian women

Birch tree

200

In the Imperial national identity doctrine, this concept accompanied "Orthodoxy" and "People"

"Monarchy" ("Autocracy")

300

THIS national symbol is sometimes interpreted as "looking simultaneously into Europe and into Asia"

Double-headed eagle

400

This is the reason there are two adjectives meaning "Russian" in the Russian language ("russky" & "rossijsky")

One means "ethnically or culturally Russian", and the other "belonging to Russia as a country"

500

These two "philosophical schools of thought" were debating over the issue of Russian national identity in the 19th century

Slavophiles and Westernizers

Miscellaneous

100

This revolutionary 1920s documentary depicts the life of a dynamic early Soviet city

Man with a Movie Camera

200

This is the name of the upper house of the Federal Assembly

Federation Council

300

This is what Moscow does not believe in according to a famous Soviet movie

tears

400

This crucial event happened in 1861

Abolition of serfdom

500

These five Central Asian independent countries used to be republics within the Soviet Union

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan