JEOPARDY Russia 3 COMMUNISM TERMS ITS REVOLTING OR

JEOPARDY Russia #3

COMMUNISM TERMS IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT WHO OR WHAT IN THE WORLD? ROOTIN’TOOTIN’PUTIN POT LUCK 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

COMMUNISM - 100 Communism envisions political and social equality without respect to this, but just ask any x chromosome type in Russia – It’s the dream, not the reality!

COMMUNISM - 100 What is GENDER?

COMMUNISM - 200 type of economic system Marx envisioned for communist countries

COMMUNISM - 200 What is socialism?

COMMUNISM - 300 In communist countries, the state draws its legitimacy from this entity.

COMMUNISM - 300 What is the Communist Party? (IDEOLOGY =, basis for legitimacy under Communism; thus, when ideology dies in China, the Chinese Communist Party has to scramble to find a basis for legitimacy. They settle on a social contract to deliver the economic goods!)

COMMUNISM - 400 In industrialized states like Britain and Germany

COMMUNISM - 400 WHERE DID MARX ENVISIONCOMMUNISM DEVELOPING FIRST?

COMMUNISM - 500 Stalin changed the Soviet regime to this form of government, which is invasive and pervasive in every aspect of people’s lives. The term is associated with the 20 th Century. Currently “authoritarian” is preferred.

COMMUNISM - 500 What is TOTALITARIAN?

TERMS - 100 Russian nobles

TERMS - 100 What are BOYARS?

TERMS - 200 The chain of forced labor camps to which the KULAKS (landowning peasants who resisted Stalin’s collectivization) and political prisoners were shipped

TERMS - 200 What is THE GULAG ?

TERMS - 300 term which indicates no separation of church and state; a system in which the ruler is also head of the church

TERMS - 300 What is “caesaropapism”?

TERMS - 400 regional assemblies set up by Czar Alexander II

TERMS - 400 What are zemstvas?

TERMS - 500 1. Khrushchev’s policy of “thawing” out the Cold War & 2. Nixon’s policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR

TERMS - 500 What are 1. “peaceful coexistance” & 2. detante?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 100 RED v. WHITE

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 100 What is the RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 200 Inspired by the French Revolution, the first organized challenge to czarist authority by Russian nobles was ruthlessly crushed by Nicholas I in 1825.

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 200 What is the DECEMBRIST REVOLT ?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 300 Russia’s mid-19 th century defeat in this war demonstrated Russia’s backwardness and prompted interest in reform

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 300 What is the Crimean War?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 400 Russia’s ineffectiveness in fighting the Russo-Japanese War and WWI

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 400 What is the immediate causes of the 1905 Revolution and the Revolution of 1917?

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 500 International crisis which led to Khrushchev’s demise

IT’S REVOLTING OR BELLIGERENT - 500 What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who or What in the World - 100 OPPRICHNIKI, NKVD, KGB, FSB

Who or What in the World - 100 What are secret police / intelligence agencies?

WHO OR WHAT IN THE WORLD? - 200 Soviet Russia’s “Man of Steel”

Who or What in the World - 200 Who is Stalin (Joseph Dugashvili)?

Who or What in the World - 300 World-renown chess champion and would-be opposition presidential candidate

Who or What in the World - 300 Who is Gary Kasparov?

Who or What in the World - 400 exiled former FSB agent who was poisoned with polonium after publicly criticizing Putin

Who or What in the World - 400 Who is ALEXANDER LITVINENKO ?

Who or What in the World - 500 He said Russia was “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ”

Who or What in the World - 500 Who is Winston Churchill?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 100 Putin worked on the East German desk of the one in Soviet times and headed the other under Yeltsin

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 100 What are the KGB and FSB?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 200 PRIMAKOV and STEPASHIN

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 200 Who are Putin’s immediate predecessors as Prime Minister ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 300 ANATOLY SOBCHAK

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 300 Who is one of Putin’s law professor’s who became mayor of Leningrad and made him deputy mayor ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 400 7%

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 400 What was the economic growth rate in 2004 when Putin was re -elected ?

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 500 Change which emasculated the Federation Council as a check on presidential authority

ROOTIN’ –TOOTIN’ PUTIN! - 500 What is APPOINTMENT OF REGIONAL GOVERNORS BY THE PRESIDENT ?

POT LUCK - 100 TWO BIG WESTERN WORLDCHANGING “R’s” MISSED BY RUSSIA

POT LUCK - 100 What are the Renaissance and the Reformation ?

POT LUCK - 200 RTR, ORT, and NTV

POT LUCK - 200 What are Russian television networks (RTR=state-owned; ORT – state owned 51% & others led by Berezovsky had 49%; NTV – owned by Guzinsky until he was arrested and fled the country and Gazprom took it over) ?

POT LUCK - 300 According to Transparency International, the two biggest drains on the Russian economy

POT LUCK - 300 What are CORRUPTION and EXTORTION?

POT LUCK - 400 What the nomination of SERGEI KIRIYENKO demonstrates about presidential power in Russia

POT LUCK - 400 What is the president’s power to dissolve parliament? (Kiryenko was rejected twice by the Duma and confirmed as PM only when Yelstin threatened to exercise his constitutional power -- to dissolve the parliament if it rejected PM nominee a third time!)

POT LUCK - 500 89

POT LUCK - 500 What are the number of regional subdivisions of Russia ?