1. 3 facts you know about Russian history
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3 facts you know about Russian history
2 facts you know about Russia’s government
1 random fact you know about Russia

2. Homework for the Unit – due on day of test
Russia Reading Guide
Vocabulary Terms

3. Homework tonight - FRQ
The executive office consists of a head of state and a head of government.
Describe key purposes of the head of state and the head of government.
Identify the office that comprises the head of state in the United Kingdom and the office that comprises the head of state in the United States.
Explain how the responsibilities between the two heads of states are different.

4. Making of the Modern Russian State
Geography and Critical Junctures

5. Russian flag

7. Largest country in the world by area
Geography of Russia
Russian Federation
Capital: Moscow
Largest country in the world by area
146 million people – 73% live in urban areas
Critical location – between Europe, Islamic world, and Asia

8. Decline of Russian tsarist state
Patrimonial state
Ruler treats the state as personal property
Serfs were emancipated in 1861 for modernization
Continued discontent after Russo- Japanese war and czar repression
March 1917 – Bolshevik revolution, end of tsarist regime

9. Bolshevik revolution (1917-1929)
1st country to base political system on Marxism
What is Marxism?
From Karl Marx; belief that in a capitalistic society, workers (proletariat) would revolt and overthrow the owners (bourgeoise) and create a classless society

10. 1917 Marxism-Leninism Led by Vladimir Lenin Vanguardism
Bolshevik revolution
1917
Led by Vladimir Lenin
Marxism-Leninism
Vanguardism
Democratic centralism

11. Lenin directed industrialization and agricultural development
Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin directed industrialization and agricultural development
1922 – formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

12. Placed Communist Party at center of control Collectivization
Stalinism ( )
Placed Communist Party at center of control
Collectivization
Agricultural land is removed from private ownership and organized into large state and collective farms
Totalitarianism and Purges
Attempts at De-Stalinization ( )

13. Perestroika and glasnost (1985-1991)
March 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev
3 main goals of reforms
Perestroika: economic restructuring
Glasnost: openness
Demokratizatsiia: a type of limited democratization

14. The Russian Federation (1991-Present)
Aug – conservatives led a coup d’etat to remove Gorbachev
By Dec. 1991, 11 Republics had declared independence.
END OF THE SOVIET UNION!!!
Boris Yeltsin emerged as president
Create a western-style democracy
Constitution of 1993
Shock Therapy: rapid, radical, market reform

15. The Russian federation (1991-Present)
Yelstin’s Prime Minister was Vladimir Putin – became acting president in 2000
– Putin was President for constitutional limit
– Dimitri Medvedev was elected president with Putin as PM
2012 – Putin is once again elected for a 6 year term