Russia Flashcards
(20 cards)
USSR
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
czar
leader of Russia pre-Bolshevik Revolution
Cold War
War of threats between USA and Russia
command economy
central govt. makes all major decisions, set prices
collective farm
government workers gathered to work large farms
Silk Road
Trade route between Russia and China
yurt
felt hut in which nomadic Russians lived
Baltic Republics
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Ural Mountains
dividing line between Europe and Asia
taiga
forest south of the tundra
republics of Central Asia
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan
continentiality
the problems with having land too far away from the ocean
Trans-Siberian Railroad
connected Russia to Siberia, built from 1891-1903
Caucasus
in between Russia and Transcaucasia, straddles Caucasus Mts.
Nagorno-Karabkh
mountainous region of Azerbaijan, experienced war in 1990s
Chechnya
region in almost incessant conflict in mid 1990s
privatization
switching from a command to a private economy
How would a nation move from a command economy to a private economy?
selling govt.-owned businesses to citizens, establishing free-market prices
“Why might ethnic tensions in the Caucasus be stronger than in other regions?
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it is a melting pot of different cultures
“What are some of the problems faced by economic reformers?”
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govt. businesses were not profitable, economic crash in 1998
