jeopardy russia #3

JEOPARDYRussia #3

COMMUNISM TERMS IT’S REVOLTING

OR BELLIGERENT

WHO OR WHAT IN

THE WORLD?

ROOTIN’-TOOTIN’-

PUTIN

POT LUCK

100 100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500 500

COMMUNISM - 100

Communism envisions

political and social equality without respect to this, but just ask any x chromosome type in Russia – It’s the dream, not the reality!

COMMUNISM - 100

What is GENDER?

COMMUNISM - 200

type of economic system Marx envisioned for communist

countries

COMMUNISM - 200

What is socialism?

COMMUNISM - 300

In communist countries, the state draws its legitimacy from

this entity.

COMMUNISM - 300

What is the Communist Party?(IDEOLOGY =, basis for legitimacy under Communism; thus, when ideology dies in China, the Chinese Communist Party has to scramble to find a basis for legitimacy. They settle on a social contract to deliver

the economic goods!)

COMMUNISM - 400

In industrialized states like Britain and Germany

COMMUNISM - 400

WHERE DID MARX ENVISIONCOMMUNISM DEVELOPING FIRST?

COMMUNISM - 500

Stalin changed the Soviet regime to this form of government, which is invasive and pervasive in every aspect of people’s lives. The

term is associated with the 20th Century. Currently “authoritarian”

is preferred.

COMMUNISM - 500

What is TOTALITARIAN?

TERMS - 100

Russian nobles

TERMS - 100

What are BOYARS?

TERMS - 200

The chain of forced labor camps to which the KULAKS (land-

owning peasants who resisted Stalin’s collectivization) and

political prisoners were shipped

TERMS - 200

What is THE GULAG ?

TERMS - 300

term which indicates no separation of church and state; a system in which the ruler is

also head of the church

TERMS - 300

What is “caesaropapism”?

TERMS - 400

regional assemblies set up by Czar Alexander II

TERMS - 400

What are zemstvas?

TERMS - 500

1. Khrushchev’s policy of “thawing” out the Cold War

&

2. Nixon’s policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR

TERMS - 500

What are

1. “peaceful coexistance”

&

2. detante?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 100

RED v. WHITE

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 100

What is the RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 200

Inspired by the French Revolution, the first organized challenge to czarist authority

by Russian nobles was ruthlessly crushed by Nicholas

I in1825.

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 200

What is the DECEMBRIST REVOLT ?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 300

Russia’s mid-19th century defeat in this war

demonstrated Russia’s backwardness and prompted

interest in reform

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 300

What is the Crimean War?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 400

Russia’s ineffectiveness in fighting the Russo-Japanese

War and WWI

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 400

What is the immediate causes of the 1905 Revolution and the

Revolution of 1917?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 500

International crisis which led to Khrushchev’s demise

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 500

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who or What in the World - 100

OPPRICHNIKI, NKVD, KGB, FSB

Who or What in the World - 100

What are secret police / intelligence agencies?

WHO OR WHAT IN THE WORLD? - 200

Soviet Russia’s “Man of Steel”

Who or What in the World - 200

Who is Stalin (Joseph Dugashvili)?

Who or What in the World - 300

World-renown chess champion and would-be opposition presidential candidate

Who or What in the World - 300

Who is Gary Kasparov?

Who or What in the World - 400

exiled former FSB agent who was poisoned with polonium after publicly criticizing Putin

Who or What in the World - 400

Who is ALEXANDER LITVINENKO ?

Who or What in the World - 500

He said Russia was “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside

an enigma.”

Who or What in the World - 500

Who is Winston Churchill?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 100

Putin worked on the East German desk of the one in

Soviet times and headed the other under Yeltsin

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 100

What are the KGB and FSB?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 200

PRIMAKOV and STEPASHIN

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 200

Who are Putin’s immediate predecessors as Prime

Minister ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 300

ANATOLY SOBCHAK

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 300

Who is one of Putin’s law professor’s who became

mayor of Leningrad and made him deputy mayor ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 400

7%

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 400

What was the economic growth rate in 2004 when Putin was

re-elected ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 500

Change which emasculated the Federation Council as a check

on presidential authority

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 500

What is APPOINTMENT OF REGIONAL GOVERNORS BY

THE PRESIDENT ?

POT LUCK - 100

TWO BIG WESTERN WORLD-CHANGING “R’s” MISSED BY

RUSSIA

POT LUCK - 100

What are the Renaissance and the Reformation ?

POT LUCK - 200

RTR, ORT, and NTV

POT LUCK - 200

What are Russian television networks (RTR=state-owned;

ORT – state owned 51% & others led by Berezovsky had 49%;

NTV – owned by Guzinsky until he was arrested and fled the country and Gazprom took it

over) ?

POT LUCK - 300

According to Transparency International, the two biggest

drains on the Russian economy

POT LUCK - 300

What are CORRUPTION and EXTORTION?

POT LUCK - 400

What the nomination of SERGEI KIRIYENKO demonstrates about

presidential power in Russia

POT LUCK - 400

What is the president’s power to dissolve parliament? (Kiryenko

was rejected twice by the Duma and confirmed as PM only when Yelstin

threatened to exercise his constitutional power -- to dissolve the parliament if it

rejected PM nominee a third time!)

POT LUCK - 500

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POT LUCK - 500

What are the number of regional subdivisions of Russia ?