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| Use to be the USSR in 1991 split into 15 different countires. |
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Russian realm is big, 8.5 million square miles, 11 time zones,
sparcely populated 280 million |
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Russia 142 million
Ukraine 47 million
Uzbekistan 27 million
average population density of 32 people per square miles |
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harsh, contintental. long cold winters, short warm summers, little precipitation
taiga: largest contingous forest |
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(1500s-1800s)
-detatched ruling class
-serfdom of peseants
-explotation of workers in industrial revolution |
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formed in 1925.
creation of ASSRs (autonomous soviet socialist republicts) |
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| A rissoam attempt to implant russian culture into non russian regions. |
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(1924-1991)
-Centrally planned economics
-production of particular manafactured goods in particular places
-economic interdependence=national unity?
-labor compensation not based on productivity
-money not the problem, just nothing to buy
-centralized, no flexibility |
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Lenin (18-27)
Stalin (27-53)
Kruschev (53-64)
Brezhnev (64-82)
Gorbachev (85-91)
Perestroika: tried to restructure economy to keep up with the west
Glastnost: encouraged opennes in internatikonal affairs |
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| Soviet Union Economic and Political collapse |
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Growth was around 10% in the 1950s, 7% in the 1960s, 5% in the 1970s, and 2% in the 1980s
-capital was sank in unproductive activites (military)
-the country went bankrupt |
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Soviet union collapsed in 1991 (Second Russian Revolution)
-Gorbachev- Boris Yeltsin
economic shock therapy: rapid replacement of communism with free market capitalism
-GDP shrank, rampant inflation, high unemployment
-privatization of previously state-owned industries |
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| Who had benefitted from the period of misdevelopment? |
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Economic and political system based on organized crime
-underground economy (black market) flourished |
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| Russia's leading business people. Fabulously wealthy and powerful |
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(2000s boom)
-25% of national economy
-27 percent of world's natural gas
-2nd largest oil exporter in the world (behind Saudi Arabia)
-State controlled energy companies
-too dependent on a single commodity? |
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PResident 200-2008
prime minister 2008-2011
predisent- 2012-2024? |
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