Russia and Republics Flashcards
Sub-Arctic Climate Location Factors
- Cold Ocean Currents
- Continentality
3, Rain shadow of the HImilayas
Effects of irrigation in Central Asia
Dried out Aral Sea because people used up the Amu Darya river for irrigation, but Uzbekistan was able to be the 4th largest producer of cotton in the world.
Taiga
Largest forest ever, in Siberia
Coniferous forest (size of Europe)
Taiga stretches through all the Subartic Climate
Lake Baikal
- 1 mile deep and 20% of all unfrozen fresh water, formed by plate tectonics
- It has a tiny outlet which gives it fresh water, Only certain species live in Lake Baikal
- mud= 5 miles deep
Trans- Siberian Railroad
- primary mode of transportation
2. Because you can’t have roads most people take the train and their goods are exported.
Autarky
countries tries to produce all the goods that it needs
Russia’s Autarky
with out efficiency, competition, and production quality was bad
Perestroika
The “restructuring” of the soviet command economy and government
McDonald’s in Moscow success
1, finally got an efficient service that takes currency
- better food compared to Russia’s food
- hoping McDonald’s enthusiasm would rub off on other buisnesses
- Soviet Union got more attention
- more money to Russia’s company (The pickle king)
Glasnost
creating greater openness and transparency with government
Political life in the Soviet Union
- Became a totalitarian state led by Lenin
- Joseph Stalin took over when Lenin died
- Russian spread to non-Russian ethnic groups
Economic life in the Soviet Union
- Gov ran large state farms
2. Policy of autarky
Social life in the Soviet Union
- gulgags- labor camps
- Soviet leaders tried to stop religous worship
- people who disagreed with communist leaders were jailed
Political life in Independent States
- old and unemployed people had no safety net
- income gap increased, public health declined
- more crime because of placing buisnesses in private hands
Economic life in the Independent States
- Factorized and transportation needed to be modernized
- corrupt officials and managers should be replaced
- Courts should be able to force payment of debts
Independent states wrap up
They are having more issues because the gov was very hands on, so no one knew what to do when there was competition, and everything was inefficient
Czar
emperor
Bolsheviks
Led by Vladamir Lenin, wants to remake Russia using the ideas of a German philosopher
Soviet Nuclear Legacy
The Soviets tested over 300 nuclear weapons in the polygon, even though people lived their
Genetic Passports
Passports if you are allowed to have children, even though you were affected by the polygon
Rapid Privatization
- Rise of Oligarchs
- Industries were sold at a low cost to those connected in old soviet system and the people with political power bought the stuff
- 110 Billionaires control 35% of the wealth
- huge income gap
Remove price controls
- rise of underground economy and crime
- inflation
- prices were too high so people went to the black market
Russia’s dependence on natural resources
- economy in deep recession
- Econ. sanctions by the US and EU as a result of Conflict in Ukraine
- Russia’s budget was based on $100 a barrel but right now oil is being sold by $30.
inflation
increase in price due to the fall in value in money
Shock therapy
shock in system
- remove price controls
- rapid privarization
Vladimir Putin
Rising authoritarian
Devolution Forces
- Russia’s minority groups saw opportunity for autonomy
2. Chechens violenty for its independence
Chechnya
Russia fought violently to keep Chechnia because Russia doesn’t want other ethnic groups to break away.
Declining population
Increase in drug and alcohol abuse because of poor economic conditions
Russian Cross
Birthrate dropped and death rate rose
Putin maintaining power over Oligarchs
- Putin had a meeting with the Oligarchs
- Kornockosvy (richest man) , was a political threat and somehow got a arrested and his money was given to Putin
- Oligarchs wanted an Authoritarian
corruption
- supposed to get food for Moscow but people got nothing a Putin kept the money instead
- Putin was good friends with the chancellor of Germany were good friends and when their was an investigation between Russia and Germany it was dismissed
- because of controlled election, Putin can be pres ident until 2024
Causes of Ukranian conflict
- Crimea has an ethnic russian majority (59%)
- Russia was afraid to lose Ukraine because they signed with the EU. Russia would loose a quality economic ally
- If Ukraine joined the EU and it kept spreading then Russia might have to loose allys or join the EU
