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Russia Test Review

Explore the characteristics of communism in Russia, where the government controls production and resources. Learn about significant historical events, including the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

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Russia Test Review

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  1. Russia Test Review

  2. #1—CommunismThe Government controls everything (production, what is being produced, how much)

  3. Capitalism Communism Government Government Government Equality Characteristics • Individuals or companies • Individuals or companies • Individuals or companies • Profit Controls Resources Runs Industries Determines Wages Motivation

  4. # 3A • Czar Nicholas II---last Czar of Russia. Him/entire family killed by the Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution. 1917-1918

  5. 3B • Peter the Great---Modernizes Russia. Built St. Petersburg as a port city for trade

  6. Josef Stalin • Dictator of the USSR- from 1929-1953. Brutal leader who killed millions of his own people

  7. 3C • Vladimir Lenin----1917-1924 leader of the Bolshevik Revolution---Communist

  8. 3D • Vladimir Putin---Current President of Russia

  9. #4 • Russian Bolshevik Revolution—they killed Czar Nicholas II and the communist party came into power under Lenin

  10. 4A • Post WW II---The countries became “satellite” nations • U.S.S.R= Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  11. #5 • Cold War--- • USA vs Soviet Union. • started after WW2 • Communism vs Capitalism. • There was no direct military conflict but was an arms race to build up nuclear weapons • Space Race

  12. #6 • “Iron Curtain”- • A term coined to describe all the countries under Soviet control politically, military, and ideologically

  13. #7 • A nuclear Power plant that exploded in Ukraine. It caused an increased rate on cancers, birth defects, radiation poisoning and evacuation of cities

  14. #8 • Aral Sea---is shrinking due to irrigation canals used for cotton farming, evaporation, lack of water feeding into the sea and overuse in the desert climate. • Led to ghost towns and unemployment, esp. in the fishing industry

  15. #9 Kremlin • Government Building in Russia

  16. #10 • The country of Russia started out small near the Moscow River. It was expanded greatly by each czar, trying to find access of minerals and resources in Siberia

  17. #11 • A link from side of Russia to the other for trade and transportation and to help with the access of minerals and resources in Siberia

  18. Trans-Siberian Railroad

  19. #12 • Positives----Help people Unite, trade & transportation • Negatives----Pollution, Nuclear explosions

  20. #13 • Allowing government controlled factors/farms to be owned privately. This was used by leaders in the Soviet Union in the move from Communism to Capitalism

  21. #14 • Siberia---The extreme cold makes it hard to access and transport the minerals and Resources

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