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JEOPARDY Russia #3. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 ?