CIS REVIEW
Feb 23, 2016
CIS REVIEW
This mountain range divides Russia from Europe
Ural Mountains
Bread Basket of CIS and Europe
Ukraine
Center of the first Russian State
Kiev
Mongols who conquered Kiev
Golden Horde
Regains Russian territory lost during Mongol Rule, and builds framework for absolute rule
Ivan the Great
First ruler crowned Czar setting the stage for absolute power in Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Czars ruling autocratically means
to
Rule with absolute power
Land owning nobles of Russia during the rule of the Czars
Boyars
Family name of those who were in power from 1613 -1917 in Russia
ROMANOV
Czar who westernized Russia, expanded its borders and ended Russia’s isolation
Peter the Great
Most Russians were this under the Czars
Serfs
Protest whereby Czar Nicholas II orders protesters shot
Bloody Sunday
Legislature under Nicholas II that approved all laws
Duma
Forced to abdicate the throne
Nicholas II
Author of the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Marxist protest against longer hours and less pay
Bloody Sunday
THE RISE OF RUSSIA
GEOGRAPHY OF RUSSIALies across Eurasian
Plain Borders Europe and
China Ural Mts. Boundary
between Europe and Asia
North –Forests-lumber, fuel
Hunters – fur-cold icy climate
Border of North-(part of Ukraine) home to Russia’s 1st civilization
Steppe-South –treeless grassland-pasture, nomads
RIVERS OF RUSSIARivers run north to
southTransportationTradeLinked early Russia to
advanced Byzantine Empire
KIEV and MONGOLSCenter of 1st Russian StateGolden Horde – Mongols
take KievFierce conquers –
conquered ruled their lands if tax was paid
Russians learn absolute power concept
Russia cut off from Western Europe
Lost advancements in arts and sciences
MOSCOWMongol Power declinesRussian Princes defeat
Golden Horde Ivan III, The Great,
1462-1505Brings Northern Russia
under his controlRegains Russian
territory lost during Mongol Rule
Builds framework for absolute rule – refers to himself as tsar
In power he is like highest God
OBSTACLE FOR RUSSIA TO INDUSTRIALIZE
RIGID CLASS STRUCTURE
RUSSIA WAS DEFEATED IN THIS WAR, SHOWING HOW BACKWARD RUSSIA WAS CRIMEAN WAR
LAND OWNING NOBLES OF RUSSIADOMINATED RUSSIAN SOCIETYDID NOT WANT ANY CHANGES
RUSSIA’S OFFICIAL RELIGIONEASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY
SEPERATES EUROPEAN RUSSIA FROM ASIAN RUSSIA
URAL MOUNTAINS
CZARS RULED AUTOCRATICALLY, THIS MEANS
WITH ABSOLUTE POWER
FAMILY OF CZARS WHO RULED RUSSIA FOR OVER 300 YRS.
ROMANOVS
CZAR WHO FORCED RUSSIA TO MODERNIZE
PETER THE GREAT
CZARINA WHO CONTINUED PETER’S POLICIES & EXTENDED RUSSIA’S BORDERS
CATHERINE THE GREAT
HE WAS DEFEATED BY RUSSIAN IN 1812 WITH HELP OF “GENERAL WINTER”
NAPOLEON
STATUS OF MOST RUSSIAN PEOPLE UNDER CZARS
SERFS
LIBERATOR CZAR WHO FREED THE SERFS
ALEXANDER II
WROTE THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
KARL MARX
REVOLT AGAINST CZAR IN 1905 WHEN CZAR ORDERED PROTESTERS SHOT
BLOODY SUNDAY
FACTORY WORKERS OR WORKERS IN EARLY RUSSIA
PROLETARIANS
FACTORY OWNERSBOURGEOISIE
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO CALLED FOR
OVERTHROW OF BOURGEOUSIE BY PROLETARIANS
LAST CZAR OF RUSSIANICHOLAS II
REVOLUTION ENDING RULE OF CZARS
BOLSHEVIK
AFTER BOLSHEVIK REVOLLUTION RUSSIA BECAME A
SOCIALIST OR COMMUNIST STATE
AFTER BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, HE BECAME HEAD OFRUSSIA, AND THEFOUNDER OF THE SOVIET UNION
LENIN
ACCORDING TO SOCIALISM ALL ARE MEMBERS IN A CLASSLESS SOCIETY
2ND LEADER OF USSR, KGB ENFORCED HIS POLICIES, 30 MILLION RUSSIANS WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF HIM
STALIN
AGREEMENT BETWEEN STALIN AND HITLER NOT TO ATTACK EACH OTHER
THE NON-AGGRESSION PACT
HELPED RUSSIA DEFEAT HITLERCOLD RUSSIAN WINTER
AFTER WWII THE U.S. AND THE SOVIET UNION WERE CONSIDERED TO BE SUPER POWERS BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAD THIS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
TENSIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND USSR CAUSED BY THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
COLD WAR
CLOSEST WORLD CAME TO NUCLEAR WAR
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
OPENESSNESS POLICY OF GORBACHEV
GLASNOST
GORBACHEV’S ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING POLICY
PERESTROIKA
AFTER THE SOVIET UNION’S COLLAPSE, IT BECAME
INDEPENDENT NATIONS
REPLACED THE SOVIET UNIONA COMMONWEALTH
SHOWS RUSSIA’S DEVELOPMENTRUSSIA, SOVIET UNION, CIS
USSR STANDS FORTHE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
LAST PRESIDENT OF SOVIET UNION
GORBACHEV