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| show | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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| show | 15
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| What is the CIS? | show 🗑
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| This region is the world’s largest in terms of --- but it is the least --- of all the regions. | show 🗑
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| show | Extreme cold in winter, and extreme hot in summer such as in E. Siberia
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| The steppe grasslands grow on fertile --- that are similar to the soils of the North American ---. | show 🗑
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| What is taiga? | show 🗑
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| The taiga forms the world’s --- forest area. It absorbs -- as much carbon dioxide as the --- forest. | show 🗑
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| show | Pols, Lithuanians, and Austrians
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| show | 20%,80%, Christian
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| the Ukrainians --- and --- Russia. | show 🗑
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| show | 22%, industrial
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| What is the difference between Georgian Christianity and Armenian Christianity? | show 🗑
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| Islam was introduced to --- in the -- and -- . | show 🗑
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| How is the Islam of Azerbaijan different? | show 🗑
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| show | Tajiks, Persian
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| show | Turks
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| The population of the Slavic and southern Caucasus regions are experiencing dramatic --- while the populations of Central Asia are showing great --- | show 🗑
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| Russia will lose -- people by 2025 and central Asia will gain -- | show 🗑
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| show | Trans-Siberian Railway
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| show | 17%,“Near Abroad.”, Scattered ethnic Russians moved (some forcefully) to other Republics in effort to maintain control of such vast area. Then after the Republic’s independence in ’91 many Russians found themselves outside their designated countries.
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| In the Crimea, Russians account for -- of the population. | show 🗑
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| show | Kazakhstan, 37%
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| In Central Asia, the cities lie along ancient and medieval--- | show 🗑
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| By the 1990s, -- of the population was urbanized. | show 🗑
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| One of the major trends since the breakup of the Soviet Union is the building of --- | show 🗑
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| show | adjacent, annexed
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| The Russian Empire traces its roots back to the principality of --- which began to expand in the --- . What does “principality” mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Caesar- emperor
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| The Romanov dynasty lasted a little over -- years. | show 🗑
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| show | Forced minorities to be more “Russian” through suppression
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| The Russian Revolution wasn’t one event. It began when revolutionaries deposed Czar Nicholas II and set up a --- | show 🗑
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| show | 1922, Lenin, USSR
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| What does “soviet” mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Hitler, Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia
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| show | Glasnost and Perestroika
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| Glasnost | show 🗑
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| show | free economics went against communist ideals and bureaucrats fought Gorbachev , political turmoil and reversed economy, companies could not survive in competitive market.
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| What was the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| show | five-year plan
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| What does “command economy” mean? | show 🗑
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| What does “central planning” mean? | show 🗑
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| show | 1950’s, 1920’s
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| The --- accounted for a large portion of the country’s economy. | show 🗑
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| What other disruptions developed under perestroika? | show 🗑
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| Today, eastern Ukraine’s industries depend on --- and --- imports from the Russian Federation to meet -- of their needs. | show 🗑
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| show | transportation network
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| show | To make the S.U. self-sufficient and independent of the global economy
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| show | Promoted farming in places never farmed, however with poor soil, not enough water or heat. Increased irrigation but failed and caused huge water problems
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| Under ---, private property accounted for -- of agricultural land, but they accounted for -- of agricultural production. | show 🗑
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| show | wheat
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| The Slavic Countries | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| The Russian Federation has -- political units. | show 🗑
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| show | 50 million
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| The Volga River is lined by a series of --- that use the river for ---, connected by a --- outlet to the Black Sea. | show 🗑
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| show | 25 mill
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| show | 3/4
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| The Southern Caucasus | show 🗑
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| What does Transcaucasia mean? | show 🗑
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| show | South- former Soviet republics, struggle with political and economic existence damaged by ethnic conflicts. North- is the Caucasus portion of Russia.
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| Zoroastrianism developed in ---, an area where the land is --- and easily --- | show 🗑
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| Because of their climates, these regions can produce what kind of agricultural crops? | show 🗑
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| show | Recently opened oil pipeline to Turkish port Ceyhan
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| show | The Ottoman gov. massacred 300,000 Armenians in 1895 and again in 1915 during WWI up to 2 mil Armenians were killed. The Ottomans claimed they were a threat to their borders.
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| show | Under Soviet rule, an autonomous region was created in Azerbaijan that was about 95% Armenian, those numbers dwindled to 76% by 1979 and they blamed the Azerbaijan gov. for suppression of their lang. and culture.
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| Central Asia’s five countries were once part of a land called--- | show 🗑
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| What is the dominant country of Central Asia? | show 🗑
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| show | They straddle the Great Silk Road, connected by E and W
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| What two countries of this subregion have had serious tensions over water resources? | show 🗑
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