Final Exam Flashcards
Kievan Rus’ is from when to when?
988-1240
Adoption of Orthodox Christianity happened when in what era?
988 in the Kievan Rus’ era.
Where was Christianity adopted from?
Byzantium
The Great Schism was when?
1054
The Great Schism entails what?
-Catholicism (West) and Orthodoxy (East).
-Relation to geopolitical division between Western and Eastern
(Byzantium) Roman Empire.
-Significance of Byzantine source.
What is the religious context in Kievan Rus’?
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Shamanism, Folk religion.
Vladimir the Great is apart of what era?
Kievan Rus’
Kievan Rus’, relations with other countries and people consisted of?
Varangians, Qipchak, Cuman
When was Appanage Russia?
(1223/ 1237-1380)
What did Appanage Russia consist of?
Mongol Yoke, Demise of Kievan Rus’, Principalities and tribute.
Fragmentation of Qipchak, rise of principalities was when?
(1341-1456)
Fragmentation of Qipchak, rise of principalities consisted of what?
- Dmitri Donskoi and Kulikovo
- Rise of Moscow
- Lithuania
- Novgorod
Dmitri Donskoi and Kulikovo was when?
1380
Moscow, Russia, and Tsardom was when?
1456- 1584
Moscow, Russia, and Tsardom consists of?
- Fall of Constantinople in 1453
- Moscow as the Third Rome, New Jerusalem
- Russian Metropolitan and independence of Russian Orthodoxy
- Ivan the Great (Ivan III) and the consolidation of Russia around Moscow
- Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV) and tsardom
1. Oprichnina
2. Tsardom - Basileus
Fall of Constantinople was when?
1453
What was the third Rome?
Moscow, New Jerusalem
Ivan the terrible and Tsardom consists of what?
Oprichnina. Tsardom
The time of Troubles was when?
1584-1613
The time of troubles entails what?
- Boris Godunov
- Impostors
- National revival
The Romanov Dynasty is when?
(1613-1917)
The Romanov Dynasty entails what?
Rise of the Romanovs, Aleksei, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Aleksandr I and Napoleon, Decembrist Revolt, Nicholas I, Golden Age, Aleksandr II and the Great Reforms.
Aleksei reigned when?
(reigned 1645-76)
Aleksei reign entails what?
- Nikon
- Raskol (Schism)
- Synod of 1666-67
- Old Believers
Aleksei reign entails what?
- Nikon
- Raskol (Schism)
- Synod of 1666-67
- Old Believers
Peter the Great’s time was when?
(1689-1725)
Peter the Great entails what?
- Navy
- St. Petersburg
- “Window on the West”
- Table of Ranks
Catherine the Great’s time was when?
(1762-1796)
Catherine the Great entails what?
- Progressive Enlightenment elements in Catherine’s reign
- Correspondence with French philosophes (Diderot, Voltaire, etc.)
- Pugachev and other peasant rebellions
- Novorossiia
Aleksandr I and Napoleon entail what?
- Speransky and the early phase of Aleksandr’s reign
- Napoleonic era
- Kutuzov
- Reaction in the aftermath of defeat of Napoleon
- Reading circles (1815-25)
- Questions surrounding the death of Aleksandr I
When was reading circles?
1815-1825
Decembrist revolt was when and In which era?
1825 in the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas I time was when?
1825-1855
Nicholas I entails what?
- Imperial expansion
- Police state
- Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
( , ,Православие самодержавие народность) - Censorship
- Westernizers and slavophilism
- Exile and emigration
a. Herzen
b. Bakunin
c. Gogol
Golden Age entails what?
- Pushkin and his pléiade
- Gogol and prose
- Glinka and Russian music
Aleksandr II and the Great Reforms was when?
(1855-70)
Aleksandr II and the Great Reforms entails what?
- Emancipation of serfs
- Legal reform, zemstvo
- To the people
- Terrorism and assassination of Aleksandr II (1881)
When was Aleksandr II assassinated?
1881.
Cultural revolution and the silver age entail what?
- Soloviev
- Tolstoy
- Dostoevsky
- Fedorov
Duma monarch reigned when?
1907-1914
What time is for Soviet Russia?
1917-1991
What did soviet Russia entail?
A February Revolution (Kerensky)
B October Revolution (Lenin, Trotsky; Bolsheviks)
C Civil War
D Lenin, Trotsky, and New Economic Policy (NEP)
E Stalin
1. Forced collectivization and “dekulakization”
2. Purges and show trials
3. Gulag
F WW II
G Khrushchev and the Thaw
H Period of Stagnation
I Gorbachev: Perestroika and Glasnost’
Who was behind the February revolution?
Kerensky
Who was behind the October revolution?
(Lenin, Trotsky; Bolsheviks)
What did Stalin entail?
- Forced collectivization and “dekulakization”
- Purges and show trials
- Gulag
Émigré Russian Culture entailed what?
Tradition of 19th century émigrés in Europe, 1st wave, 2nd wave, 3rd wave, Émigrés after the Soviet period
Tradition of 19th century émigrés in Europe entails what?
- Gogol
- Herzen
- Bakunin
- Dostoevsky
1st wave entails what, when, and who?
After Bolshevik revolution and Paris, Berlin, Prague, Other centers (Shanghai, Istanbul, Zagreb)
What wave was Paris in and what entails Paris?
a. Largest Russian community outside of Russia at that time
b. Remains vital until Nazi occupation of France
c. Paris Note (Adamovich, Georgy Ivanov)
d. Major Russian poets, painters, composers, novelists
What major Russian poets, painters, composers, novelists were in Paris?
1) Khodasevich
2) Kandinsky
3) Stravinsky, Rakhmaninov
4) Bunin
What wave is Berlin in, and what did it entail?
First wave,
a. Thriving Russian community through the 20s
b. Nazi hostility
c. Few remain from early 30s on
d. Nabokov until late 30s
What wave was Prague in and what did it entail?
First wave,
a. Small, but vital Russian community
b. Prague Linguistic Circle
c. Tsvetaeva
d. Falls apart after Nazi occupation
2nd wave was when and where?
After WWII and New York and San Francisco.
3rd wave was when and where?
60s and beyond, Israel and Brighton Beach
Emigres are when?
After Soviet period.
What was in recent Russian history?
A. Yeltsin
B. Putin
C. Repression
D. Annexation of Crimea (2014)
E. War in Ukraine (2022- )
