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Summary Questions (Answer each in complete sentences). Why is Russia less developed east of the Ural Mts ? (include two examples) What two physical features contribute to the densely populated areas of Russia and why?
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Summary Questions(Answer each in complete sentences) • Why is Russia less developed east of the Ural Mts? (include two examples) • What two physical features contribute to the densely populated areas of Russia and why? • Describe the 3 political systems and economic systems of Russia in the last 100 years in order.
What is the largest country in the world? (Easy Question) • What is the largest landlocked country in the World? • What is a disadvantage of a landlocked country?
Kazakhstan in Central Asia Kazakhstan
Why is it shrinking? “Cause” • Irrigation for cotton farming • This is an arid region next to a desert
The Effects A. The collapse of the local fishing industry B. Increase in pollution due to fertilizer run off, pesticides, and industrial waste C. Increase in respiratory illnesses in the region
Snow can not accumulate • Adaption to environment • Built by Czar Ivan the Terrible in 1500’s • Basil the Blessed (Russian Orthodox Saint) • What happened to the architects who built this? (myth)
Czar Peter the Great: Russian Monarchy • ruled from 1682-1725 and helped modernize Russia and make Russia a European power • move capital to St. Petersburg • wanted to industrialize Russia like the rest of Europe, but wages were low and conditions were harsh(people became angry with czars)
Czar Nicholas II • Last tsar of Russia • Russia suffered economically • Military defeat and lost 3.3 million in WWI • Abdicated in 1917
Russian Revolution: 1917 • Ideas of Karl Marx • WWI (1917) common people revolted against the czars and aristocrats • led by Communist party (Bolsheviks) leader, V. I. Lenin • Communist party took control of govt. and economy and renamed Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Write a sentence that describes what is going on in these pictures?
Joseph Stalin • cruel leader of Soviet Union during WWII • installed pro-Soviet govts in Eastern Europe which caused tension w/ U. S. Gulags: Soviet Labor Camps
Cold War • tension b/w U. S. and Soviet Union: nuclear weapons and space programs • lasted until mid to late 1980’s when Mikhail Gorbachev gave the people more freedom
Soviet Union’s Command Economy • govt. controlled land, mines, factories, banks, and transportation. • govt. decided what factories would produce and what crops would be grown • govt. determined prices for goods and wages for workers • collective farms: large team of laborers were gathered to farm for the govt. • production increased greatly, but quality got worse b/c there was no competition to created better products • food shortages and bad working conditions were problems • protests would result in punishment; Stalin possible killed more than 14 million people