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Saint Cyril
Definition
Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) named after him, Greek monk
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Historical Origins
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much lost due to fire & lack of writting
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Varangians
Definition
South Sweden, heading south
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Why Varangi's heading south
Definition
Trade, ran into tribes in Russia (steppe), Byzantine Empire
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Varangi's traded for? Where?
Definition
spice, silk, horses, gold, wine, silver. Middle East & Asia.
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Varangi's traded ______ for goods with Asia and Middle East
Definition
furs, wax, honey, & slaves
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Where did Varangi's live?
Definition
Between Finland & Black Sea
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What tribes were between Finland & Black Sea? years?
Definition
Scythians 700BC, Sarmathians 200BC, Huns 370AD, Avars 560AD, Khazars 650 AD
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Russia?
Definition
Rus'
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Theories of Russian origin
Definition
Swedish tribes settled in area along Dnieper River, "ruotsi" is Finnish word for Swedes. Means "those who row", and Arab travelers called them "Rus'" (a tribe of Slavs)
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Kievan State: Importance of story of Riurik (a Varangian)
Definition
Asked to rule "Rus"; Russians were killing each other and needed order
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Kievan State: Problems with geography
Definition
no defense; lack of mtns. and high forests. Rivers were only defense. Nomadic tribes looking for land.
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Kievan State: Geography?
Definition
Steppe: ungulating, rolling, flat plains. Also, Volga River. In Southern Russia
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Kievan State: Growth of 2 major towns?
Definition
Kiev (Kyiv) & Novgorod
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Kievan State: Walls surrounding Kiev, Novgorod, and other later Russian towns.
Definition
Kremlin; Wall= Kremel
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Kievan State: Religion?
Definition
Pantheistic
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Kievan State: Perun?
Definition
God of thunder & lightening
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Kievan State: Stribog?
Definition
God of winds
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Kievan State: Dazhbog and Khors?
Definition
Sun gods
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Kievan State: Mokosh?
Definition
Female deity associated w/ Damp Mother Earth
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Kievan State: Forms of knowledge of pre-christ Rus?
Definition
Archeological evidence, Birch-bark document (9th-13th century), early chronicles, and folklore (oral, marked occasions such as deaths, weddings, seasons, and weather)
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Kievan Rus
Definition
First Russian state, 862 CE
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Kievan Rus: why here?
Definition
Dnieper River (water ways)
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Kievan Rus: Norman Theory of influence?
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Verangian Influence
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Kievan Rus: Byzantine Influence
Definition
alphabet- 2 Greek brothers (monks)- Church Slavanic, art, architecture, and trade
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Kievan Rus: Why did 2 monk brothers spread language?
Definition
spread christianity
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Kievan Rus: How christianized?
Definition
Prince Vladimir sent out emissaries to 4 nations to find a religion
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Kievan Rus: What were Vladimir's 4 religion choices
Definition
Western Christianity (Pope of Rome), Judaism (Khazars), Islam (Bulgars), and Eastern Christianity (Byzantine Empire)
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Kievan Rus: The Easter Orthodox Church?
Definition
(orthodox= correct belief) Russ. Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Serb. Orthodox Church, Moldavian, Romanian, Georgian, and Ukrainian
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Kievan Rus: Orthdox Church facts?
Definition
Part of christian church, Eastern Branch, doesnt aknowledge Pope as leader, churches each have patriarchs
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Kievan Rus: Relations with Byzantine?
Definition
Trade and buffer zone from enemies (Polovtsians and Pechenegs)
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Kievan Rus: Igor tale
Definition
1185, against polovtsians, about role of internecine warfare
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Kievan Rus: Alexander Borodin
Definition
1833-1887, composer & chemist, Petersburg 5, Opera version of Prince Igor (1869), and poem The Steppes of Central Asia.
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Kievan Rus: Two-fold belief
Definition
dvoeverie; pagan and christian influences
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Muscovite Russia: Golden Horde; Tatar Mongol Yolke
Definition
12th century, turkic (steppes of central asia) mongolia, moved entire pop., took advantage of internessing warfare, SARAI=CAPITOL, princes must pay them TRIBUTES, left princes to rule their cities
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Muscovite Russia: Khan/ Khanate
Definition
conquered during russ expansion, astrakhan and kazan (break offs of sarai due to warfare between tatar themselves)
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Muscovite Russia: Khan Baty
Definition
leader of TATAR
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Muscovite Russia: Sarai
Definition
capitol of tatar, mongol yoke
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Muscovite Russia: Terem
Definition
tower
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Muscovite Russia: Ivan Kalita
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Muscovite Russia: Ivan the Terrible
Definition
15th cent. after the great ivan, the dread, brought up under boyar rule (advisors), 1st official tsar of russ., expansion
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Muscovite Russia: Muscovite Idealogy
Definition
holy, chosen by god, third rome
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Muscovite Russia: Muscow as 3rd Rome
Definition
rome, constantinople, moscow
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Muscovite Russia: Philotheus
Definition
3rd rome, philosopher
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Muscovite Russia: Boyars
Definition
advisors to tsar, tried to get their views in
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Muscovite Russia: Time of Troubles
Definition
Boris gudonovs reign to establishment of Romanov dynasty, growth of service gentry (work for land), muscovite societ destablished, no more legal migration, serfdom- or find new land,
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Muscovite Russia: Archpriest Avvakum
Definition
burnt at stake for resisting Nikons changes to church, leader of old believers
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Muscovite Russia: BorisGudonov
Definition
last ruler before time of troubles
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Muscovite Russia: Patriarch Nikon
Definition
brought religious reforms, patriarch, wanted to follow more closely to eastern orthodox church
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Muscovite Russia: Old Believers
Definition
resisted changes by Nikon, didnt want to lose culture
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Muscovite Russia: Schism
Definition
(rasko) split, church
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Muscovite Russia: Domostroi
Definition
set of rules of how to live, religous and household, beating son. SYLVESTER
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Muscovite Russia: Hagiography
Definition
the studying of saints, Kievan Rus
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Russia's 18th Century: Peter the great
Definition
1672-1725, journied to Europe (1697-98)
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Russia's 18th Century: Founding of ST PETERSBURG
Definition
named after Peter the Greats patron saint, furthest west city of Russia (window to the west), inhabitants today call it 'Piter'
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Russia's 18th Century: What did Peter the great consider very important?
Definition
Insisted on Westernization
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Russia's 18th Century: Effects of westernization
Definition
Brought back foreigners from Western nations; French cooks & Italian Architects.
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Russia's 18th Century: Pre-Reform
Definition
no art forms, no printed news, no printed plays or poetry, a system of serfdom, and boyars advisors to tsar, illeteracy, isolation from west. Europe, and very poorly developed science and engineering
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Russia's 18th Century: Building St. P
Definition
"here shall be town", capital of Russ. 1918, mix of odd cultures, granite-finland, marble-italy mid east, sandstone from pol and germ, and canals based of Venice
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Russia's 18th Century: What did Peter Great change tsar to?
Definition
Emperor
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Russia's 18th Century: Social political - westerniz
Definition
no more muscovite, aristocrocy of estates and court centered, tables of ranks according to office not birth, and Shermetev fam. had 200000 serfs
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dvoryanstvo
Definition
men of the court
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Russia's 18th Century: St. peters
Definition
"the bronze horsemen" - Aleksander Pushkin, "the overcoat" nokolai Gogol, "crime and punish" Dostoy Evesky
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Russia's 18th Century: Peter GRT REFORMS
Definition
secularization-church removed from state, westernization-driving wedge between his ppl
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Russia's 18th Century: Fore reform, against reform
Definition
westernizers, slavophils
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Russia's 18th Century: Peter the Great- wife
Definition
Catherine the Great
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Russia's 18th Century: Catherine the great
Definition
pugachev rebell, potemkin, french rev. 1789, Radishev "Journey from peters to moscow"
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Russia's 18th Century: Reign of Cath
Definition
Correspong w/ french philos, french and germ. culture into Russ, expanded empire against will of caucuses (tribes), and mtn. ranges, ruled w/ enlightened absolutism, FOUNDED HERMITAGE
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Russia's 18th Century:Hermitage
Definition
1764, largest painting colect. in wrld, 3 mill items, film on D2l
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Russia's 18th Century: Pugachev
Definition
1773-1774
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Russia's 18th Century: Result of Cath
Definition
severe serfdom, serf. very much indentured to land owners (gentry)
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Muscovite Russia: Results of Tatar
Definition
terem(tower where women lived), postal system, authoritarian rule, no travel across borders, aided growth of moscow, missed renaissance (lack of science, based philos on religion)
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Muscovite Russia: MOSCOWWW
Definition
metro to Mosc form vlad, monastic revival (zagorsk and trinity monastery), holy war against tatar
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Muscovite Russia: Ivan III (great)
Definition
14th cent. Increased his realm, absorbed other town, absolutism, solidify ties w/ E and W, expand Kremlin
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Muscovite: Oprichina
Definition
group of assasins (attackers) for ivan the terrible, land in exchange for their actions
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Muscovite: Russ Expans
Definition
conquer tatar, mov. to siberia (salt fur fish mineral resources), west into baltic region, northeast, seaports near sweden and norway
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TRIBES; uralic, altaic, paleosiberian
Definition
ugric ppl; mansis , turkic; yakuts , ainu
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Muscovite: Cossacks
Definition
adventurers horsmen expans into siberia, border towns, considered free, ERMACK leader
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Muscovite: Role of church
Definition
coronation of ivan terrible (pomp and ritual), BYZANTINE RITUAL, tsar endowed with sacred authority, HOLY RUSSIA (16th), no more skomorokhi (folk minstrels) PAGAN
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Muscovite: NIKON'S CHANGES
Definition
conform w/ rest of east ortho church, # of fingers, spellin of jesus, bows, cross on waffer, harsh punishment
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Muscovit Russia: growth in identity
Definition
holy, chosen by god
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Muscovit Russia: growth in identity
Definition
holy, chosen by god
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Muscovite: Moscow as capitol
Definition
deep into russia, russian values
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March 5, 1953
Definition
Stalin's Death
Term
1954-1964
Definition
Krushchev's rule
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Krushchev: The Thaw
Definition
effect the arts, thaw freeze thaw, more honesty in literature and media
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Krushchev: Pasternak Affair
Definition
Published Doctor Zhivago in Italy, before Russia
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Krushchev:Republic's
Definition
liberalization, could gain independence, Hungarian uprising- 1956
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Krushchev: de-stalinization
Definition
Secret speech 1956, stalin- extreme, couldn't be to anti-stalin, many leaders came up under Stalin
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Krushchev: What did he do?
Definition
Lessens KGB's power
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Krushchev: Cold War
Definition
arms and space race, not over military fight, actually started at end of WWII 1946, cuban missile crisis
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Krushchev: Great Cosmonaut
Definition
Gagarin
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Brezhnev: Ruled?
Definition
1964-1982
Term
Brezhnev: Time period?
Definition
stagnation
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Krushchev: time period?
Definition
the thaw
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Brezhnev: stagnation?
Definition
put up Berlin wall, put breaks on the thaw, stop literature about pruges, camps, and stalin, stabalize economy, brodsky trial, Sinyavsky and Daniel, led to samizdat, prague spring, not a return to stalinism (gulags) but writters were put on trial
Term
Brezhnev: Prague spring
Definition
czech uprising, 1968, claim independence, Alexander Dubcek
Term
Brezhnev: Stabilization
Definition
money away from military into consumer life, gov. controlled economy
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Brezhnev: Brodsky trial
Definition
Term
Brezhnev: Sinyavksy and Daniel
Definition
Satire published in England and America first
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Brezhnev: Intelligentsia
Definition
Educated, workers, began samizadat
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Brezhnev: samizadat
Definition
underground writting culture, carbon paper, exchange work secretely
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Brezhnev: Dissident Movement
Definition
against policies of USSR, immigrate and get out, Solzenitsyn and his book "One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich", Brodsky, loyal to Soviet but not to what it had manifested into, highly educated, in cities, harold urey, Sakharov
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Brezhnev: Harold Urey
Definition
hydrogen bomb
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Brezhnev: reasons for dissident movement
Definition
nuclear disaster, corruption in gov., how long can we suffer?, travel and see other "better" parts of world, beatles not allowed
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Brezhnev: key associations
Definition
dissident movement, stagnation, stabalization
Term
Gorbachev: Ruled?
Definition
1985-1991
Term
Gorbachev: major movements?
Definition
glasnost (openness) perestroika (restructuring of economy) and chernobyl which led to glasnost
Term
Gorbachev: glasnost
Definition
caused partially by honesty issues relating to chernobyl (safety of people), banned works returned, freedom, during stalin couldnt mention outlawed writters name
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Gorbachev: perestroika
Definition
restructuring economy, cost accounting (state factories must find way to get money), prices respond to economy, inflation, IOU's vouchers, some say "didnt go far enough", change entire system
Term
Gorbachev: chernobyl
Definition
nuclear disaster, never announced, america found out through other countries, glasnost,
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Gorbachev: title?
Definition
first secretary of USSR
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Gorbachev: why disliked?
Definition
destabilized economy, anti-alc, reform instead of recreate, "shock therapy", deficits, prices flew up
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Gorbachev: putsch
Definition
conservative opposition, led by Yeltsin, revolt or overthrow
Term
Gorbachev: destabilization effects?
Definition
soviet republics want out, liberated,independent
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Gorbachev: first three to leave?
Definition
lith, lat, eston
Term
Gorbachev: why did he fail near end?
Definition
nothing to rule, 15 republics no longer existed as they had, USSR was crumbling
Term
Gorbachev: what did he become, why?
Definition
president, communist party is no longer official gov.
Term
Putin: President?
Definition
2000-2008 (re-elected)
Term
Putin: prime minister
Definition
2008-present
Term
Putin: why feared by russians?
Definition
prime until 2012, run for reelection, old russian authortarian rule, stalin like, system where law no longer matters, former KGB
Term
Putin: accomplished?
Definition
dignity to president, corruption
Term
Medvedev ?
Definition
current president of russia until 2012
Term
Peter the Great: reforms?
Definition
Term
Marx prediciton of communism?
Definition
england and america, must go through capitalism first
Term
Stalinism:
Definition
ideas and concepts put into affect by stalin
Term
Stalinism:issue?
Definition
father figure vs. oppresor
Term
Stalinism: why some still loyal?
Definition
fought WWII for him and his ideas, now that gone seems fought for nothing, no corruption, strong gov., and literacy
Term
Stalinism: WWII?
Definition
victorious but at cost of 20 million lives and 20 mill more in purges, loyal to what they fought for
Term
Stalinism: purges?
Definition
20 million killed
Term
Stalinism:amnesty?
Definition
after his death prisoners freed from gulag
Term
Stalinism: chaos after death?
Definition
go from strong structured leader to him not exisiting (he was everything) represented by chaos during his funeral
Term
Muscovite idealogy: during whos time?
Definition
ivan the terrible
Term
Muscovite idealogy: Ivan the " "
Definition
dread, good thing
Term
Muscovite idealogy: what is it?
Definition
highly conservative set of principles, religious revival, moscow as new rome, power centralized in moscow and tsar, ritualization, church dogma
Term
Muscovite idealogy: domastroy?
Definition
household book, edacit, how to treat wife?, beat son to make yourself "happy old man"
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Muscovite idealogy: Peter the Great
Definition
late 17th century, country is sitting in putty, stuck in rituals, must open up country to advances in art and architecture, expanding russia in every direction
Term
Schism: russian?
Definition
raskol
Term
Schism: pitted who against who?
Definition
patriarch nikon v. old believers
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Schism: Nikon
Definition
religous reform, match orthodox church
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Schism: Nikon's reforms
Definition
# of fingers when making cross, kneeling, and more
Term
Pale of settlment
Definition
geographical area near ukraine and poland, set aside area for jews by tsars as far back as cath great
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Pale of settlment: fear of judens?
Definition
merchants, trade, and ultimate allegiance wasn't to russia
Term
Pale of settlment: when in russia happened again?
Definition
during brezhnev, after WWII, allegiance to Isreal not russia, russia has history of anti- semitism
Term
Pale of settlment: pogrom?
Definition
random attacks jewish villages
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Pale of settlment shtetl?
Definition
jewish villages
Term
Pale of settlment: who carried out pogrom, why ?
Definition
cossacks, gained land, freedom, and avoided taxes
Term
Stalinism: why chechens deported?
Definition
didnt stop and even sometimes supported nazis, liberators
Term
Stalinism: chechens deported where?
Definition
kazakhstan
Term
Stalinism: issues between chechens and russia? why annex?
Definition
russia wanted to annex chechens for trade and oil.. persia towards india, cotton silk and spices
Term
Nicholas II: dissatisfaction with why?
Definition
disengaged due to idiot monk Rasputin, bloody sunday, russo jap war
Term
Nicholas II: russo jap war
Definition
lost and drained econ
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Nicholas II: bloody sunday?
Definition
peaceful demonst. attacked by tsar's soldiers
Term
Yeltsin: strength/ weakness
Definition
handling moments of crisis/ handling day to day issues.. economy in ruins
Term
Early Rus: varangians?
Definition
north's men, sweden finland, trade
Term
Early Rus: who lived between fin and black sea
Definition
scythians, sarmathians, huns, avars, khazars
Term
Kievan state: Riurik??
Definition
riurik dynasty which ruled kievan rus, refused to pay tartars tribute, and sent two brothers to rule other states
Term
Kievan state: igor tale?
Definition
1185, against polovtsians, role of internecing warfare
Term
Kievan state: who wrote igor tale?
Definition
alexand borodin
Term
Kievan state: alexand borodin
Definition
composer, chemist, petersburg 5, mighty handful, "the Steppes of Central Asia"
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Kievan state: byliny
Definition
oral epics
Term
Icons and iconography: icon
Definition
image
Term
Early Muscovy: Ivan IV
Definition
1533-1584, boyar rule, oprichina 1565
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Early Muscovy: oprichina?
Definition
terrible time during which ivan ruled
Term
Time of troubles: when did it happen?
Definition
1598-1613 godunov - romanov dynasty
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Time of troubles: what'd it do ?
Definition
growth of gentry, land for service, horrible peasantry sitch, serfdom, migration illegal
Term
Tiumen
Definition
founded 1586
Term
Alexander Bloks warning to west?
Definition
The scythians, poem
Term
Alexander Radishchev
Definition
journey from st. petes to moscow; exiled by cath the great
Term
why is Alexander Radishchev work, journey from st petes to moscow important?
Definition
its depiction of socio-economic conditions
Term
Stenka Razin
Definition
Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and Tsar's bureaucracy in South Russia.
Term
importance of Ivan IV (terrible) and kurbskys correspondance?
Definition
ivan didn't renew his commision, he defected to lith, look into society at that time
Term
French Rev: cath the great
Definition
no influence because happened well after pugachev rebellion (73-74) in 1789, also she ruled with authortarian rule, unlike france
Term
Peter great reforms?
Definition
split country into slavophils and westernizers
Term
when was bloody sunday
Definition
1905
Term
unhappiness with nicholas
Definition
lack of dumas (parliament) and poor conditions for peasants
Term
when were purges?
Definition
1936-1938
Term
who emancipated serfs?
Definition
alexander II
Term
wanderers?
Definition
artists, show peasants real lives
Term
golden era writters?
Definition
destoyevsky tolstoy zhukovsky pushkin
Term
siberia east and siberia west
Definition
ural mtns and sea oklnosh
Term
purged under stalin, who?
Definition
jews old bolsheviks intelligentsia non russians high ranking officials
Term
origin of word siberia?
Definition
where two rivers meet, sleeping land
Term
sibiriak
Definition
nationality of people from siberia
Term
vertov made what film?
Definition
man w/ a camera
Term
leaders of 1917 russian rev?
Definition
bolsheviks
Term
Marx goals of rev?
Definition
better peasant conditions and lessen autocratic power
Term
kronstadt rebellion?
Definition
unsuccessful left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. Led by Stepan Petrichenko and consisting of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians, the rebellion was a major reason for Lenin and the Communist Party's decision to loosen its control of the Russian economy by implementing the New Economic Policy
Term
how many people died in purges?
Definition
20 million
Term
what writer wrote about gulag camps?
Definition
Solzhenitsyn
Term
who is aleksei stakhanov and why important
Definition
A miner with legendary proportions He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a movement that was intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.
Term
agitki
Definition
propoganda films
Term
stalin means
Definition
made of steel
Term
nikolai bukharin
Definition
bolshevik, marxist, and soviet politician. Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the "Moscow Trials" and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.
Term
leaders of 1917 russian rev?
Definition
bolsheviks
Term
Marx goals of rev?
Definition
better peasant conditions and lessen autocratic power
Term
kronstadt rebellion?
Definition
unsuccessful left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. Led by Stepan Petrichenko and consisting of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians, the rebellion was a major reason for Lenin and the Communist Party's decision to loosen its control of the Russian economy by implementing the New Economic Policy
Term
how many people died in purges?
Definition
20 million
Term
what writer wrote about gulag camps?
Definition
Solzhenitsyn
Term
who is aleksei stakhanov and why important
Definition
A miner with legendary proportions He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a movement that was intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.
Term
agitki
Definition
propoganda films
Term
stalin means
Definition
made of steel
Term
nikolai bukharin
Definition
bolshevik, marxist, and soviet politician. Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the "Moscow Trials" and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.
Term
gulag labor completed what important tansportation project?
Definition
the canal to white sea
Term
kulak
Definition
"fist", by extension "tight-fisted"; kurkuls in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts in Ukrainian contexts) were a category of relatively affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union. The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.
Term
russian civil war = who vs. who ?
Definition
bolsheviks vs. anti bolsheviks/ liberals
Term
Tumarkins "the body and shrine"
Definition
when someone dearly loved dies a cult is formed behind him. Lenin lives on and his rule lives on.Normal instability after death of a ruler with great power, lenin is eternal leader, a devotion to the state
Term
The volga bargeman?
Definition
ilya repin, and it was a rep of russia industrializing and growing... possibly also how far it was behind industrialized countries
Term
Tumarkins "the body and shrine"
Definition
when someone dearly loved dies a cult is formed behind him. Lenin lives on and his rule lives on.Normal instability after death of a ruler with great power, lenin is eternal leader, a devotion to the state
Term
The volga bargeman?
Definition
ilya repin, and it was a rep of russia industrializing and growing... possibly also how far it was behind industrialized countries
Term
"we variant of a manifesto" vs. Man with a movie camera?
Definition
The importance of completely taking a story apart to put it back together. Explaing how it is put together. It shares the ideology of the revolution of russia; cant just restructure
Term
difficulties for lenin after revolution?
Definition
many still felt very loyal to the tsar and the state. Also, many were illiterate and uneducated so couldnt spread effectively. Idea of revolution wasnt even known by some
Term
Anastasiia Bushueva's "learning to labor"
Definition
a man who works hard for state and improves his situation. It ties into the russian ideology of working for the state an state is most important as someting that is good for you. Success is through the state
Term
socio-economic repercussions of 1861?
Definition
emancipation of the serfs, created a class of indebted servants with very poor living conditions
Term
when were serfs emancipated
Definition
1861
Term
what is socialist realism? and its role in stalinist society?
Definition
style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. Used by stalin as propaganda to spread his message of communism.
Term
countries within the Caucasus
Definition
armenia georgia azerbaijan turkey
Term
imam shamil
Definition
an Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus. He was a leader of anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War and was the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate
Term
tchaikovsky overture?
Definition
1812 overture, about war
Term
myth of st petes?
Definition
ghosts, dark place, due to huge loss of serf (1/4 million) during building
Term
siberia popular for?
Definition
exploration in 15 and 16 cenutries, exile 17 and 18 centuries, and gulags in 20th century
Term
first chechen war?
Definition
yeltsin, 2nd under putin, wanted to annexx for oil, chechens always wanted independence
Term
hello / how is business? / good
Definition
zdrastvuite / kak dela? / khorosho
Term
Gorbachev: wife?
Definition
raisa
Term
Gorbachev: remembering basics of marxism
Definition
withering of state, classless, freeing workers
Term
Gorbachev: what happened to communism?
Definition
Living conditions, consumer life.
Alcoholism
Lack of worker productivity
Soviet anecdote of the times: “What is communism? It is a system in which you pretend to work and we pretend to pay you.”
Economy in shambles
Term
Gorbachev: perestroika?
Definition
Centralized planning had to be abandoned
Enterprises could now set their own prices
Introduction of market reforms without capitalism
Anti-alcoholism campaign
Vodka prices rise 3x
Cutting down of vineyards in Moldavia and Ukraine
Size of Central Party diminished
Put into effect service sector enterprises not owned by the state
Improve material living conditions of Soviet citiz
Term
Gorbachev: brezhnev doctrine?
Definition
demolishedn 1985-1986
Term
Gorbachev: wall torn down, what did reagan say?
Definition
"tear down this wall" 1987
Term
Brezhnev: sinyavsky daniel trial
Definition
1966, published works outside of russi
Term
Brezhnez: sakharov
Definition
internal exile in gorky, hydrogen bomb
Term
Brezhnez: brosky and his trial
Definition
1940-1996, labor farming for being a poet, released and settled in US in 1972
Term
Brezhnez: jackson- vanik amendment
Definition
dissident movement, 1974-present, restricted trade with USSR, permission of emigration
Term
Brezhnez: what russia still isnt part of?
Definition
WTO world trade
Term
Brezhnez: stagnation
Definition
crack down on intellectual freedoms, gerontocray, nomenklatura (advantages), cult personallity, travel restricted
Term
Brezhnez: nomenklatura
Definition
were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
Term
Brezhnez: prague spring, when?
Definition
1968, soviets invaded czech
Term
Brezhnez: afghan invasion?
Definition
79-89
Term
Brezhnez: brezhnev doctrine
Definition
1968, justifies invasion of czech
Term
Brezhnez: word for prrivate markets?
Definition
rynki
Term
Cold war: definitive years?
Definition
46-91
Term
Cold war: who coined term?
Definition
george orwell
Term
Cold war: ignited it?
Definition
communist sphere on influence in easter europe (stalin), marshall plan european recover plan 1948-1952
Term
Cold war: korean war
Definition
50-53, n korea v south korea, comm vs capital, hydrogen bomb, us with south
Term
Khrushchev cold war: space race?
Definition
1957 sputnik, soviet cosmonauts, 1961 gagarin orbited globe, 1961 JFK sends man to moon
Term
Khrushchev cold war: hungarian revolt
Definition
1956, soviet troops move in
Term
Khrushchev cold war: sputnik?
Definition
1957, circles earth
Term
Khrushchev cold war: foreign relations
Definition
courting new countries in africa and asia, 1959 castro gains power of cuba- associates with USSR
Term
Khrushchev cold war: u2 spy plane
Definition
incident 1960, us spy plane shot down over USSR, francis powers
Term
Khrushchev cold war: cuban missile crisis
Definition
1962, kennedy v castro and khrushchev, bay of pigs
Term
Khrushchev cold war: bay of pigs
Definition
cia trained cuban exiles, overthrow cuban gov., defeated by castros army, in repsonse to nuclear facilites in turkey, 1962 soviets delivered to cuba, castro urges khrush to bomb
Term
Khrushchev cold war: berlin wall
Definition
61-89, split berlin into two secots, allied after war, usa in western part of germany, 1949 stalin forem E german as german democratic republic
Term
The Purges: also known as?
Definition
the great terror
Term
The Purges: when?
Definition
34-53 (stalin)
Term
The Purges: cause by
Definition
fear of nazi germany
Term
The Purges: segei kirov?
Definition
leningrad party boss (chief) 1926-1934, popularity reviled stlains, leningrad v. moscow
Term
The Purges: victims?
Definition
high party functionaries (nikolai bukharin and leon trotsky), old bolsheviks, high army ranks (marshal tukachevsky), non russians, guilty by association, intelligentsia (main source of gov. decent), groups of people in certain enterprisses or proffesions,
Term
The Purges: famous victims?
Definition
nikolai bukharin 1938, leon trotsky 1940
Term
The Purges: gulag/ labor camps?
Definition
source of economy; mining, forestry, industrial projects' white sea canal; 100000 died, bad work due to criminal workers, 4-5 million a year, 50 million over entire time
Term
The Purges: why wasnt stopped?
Definition
lack of info, ideology (state as family, love for stalin-father figure), somehow all mistake, fear
Term
The Purges: communal appts and workplace
Definition
terror acquired life of its own, collective responsibility, stukachi, black marias- cars to take people away
Term
The Purges: stukachi
Definition
party spies!
Term
The Purges: ending?
Definition
wwii, and stalins death, gulags ending in 1950s; penal colonies still existed, and birth of scoiety in leningrad know as memorial
Term
The Purges: doctor's plot?
Definition
all jewish doctors were secretly plotting to kill stalin
Term
The Purges: ending?
Definition
wwii, and stalins death, gulags ending in 1950s; penal colonies still existed, and birth of scoiety in leningrad know as memorial
Term
The Purges: doctor's plot?
Definition
all jewish doctors were secretly plotting to kill stalin
Term
russian populism:
Definition
younger generations desire to reach out to peasantry, mid 19th century, 1874 movemnet "going to the people"
Term
russian populism:motivation
Definition
guilt over own sitch, european ideals, socialism, marxism, alleviate shitty conditions, landlords and serfs
Term
russian populism: who were peasants?
Definition
Dostoyevsky “They are morally superior to any European gentleman.”
Turgenev: “They are on a higher spiritual level.”
Tolstoy dressed as a peasant.
Poet Nekrasov said:
“Russia is contained in the rural depths
Where eternal silence reigns”
Term
russian populism: wanderers
Definition
painters, socialist ideals of populism, 1870s
Term
russian populism: repin
Definition
tolstoy plowing and ivan terrible after killed son and red nosed man
Term
russian populism: 19th century painter?
Definition
Aleksei Venetsianov
Term
russian populism: karmskoi
Definition
The Forester, portrait of Mina Moiseyev
Term
russian populism:Savrasov
Definition
The Rooks Have Returned” spring evening
Term
russian populism: levitan
Definition
eternal rest Village on the Bank of a River village in winter
Term
featurs of byzantine icons
Definition
The Virgin of Pafsolype
Term
icons: the annunciation
Definition
angel appearing to mary, mostly golden
Term
icons: russian icons?
Definition
our lady of vladimir, st george the miracle worker, the last supper, st george and the dragon, virgin of vladimir
Term
icons: first secular sts in russ
Definition
boris and gleb
Term
icons: andrei rubylev
Definition
monk icon painter 1360 - 1427, the trinity, christ, the apostle paul,
Term
icons:movie on rubylev?
Definition
dir by andrei tarkovsky 1966
Term
byzantine architecture
Definition
masive domes rounded columns square base mosaic
Term
mosaics:
Definition
emperor justinian empress theodora
Term
borodin
Definition
steppes of central asia, prince igor, string quartets
Term
cesar cui 19th cent
Definition
wrote about life of caucasus, prisoner of caucasus
Term
golden age of lit 19th cent
Definition
Leo Tolstoy
--Anna Karenina (1873-1877)
--War and Peace (1862-1869)
Term
eyodor dostyevksy 19th cent
Definition
Antisocial, dark
-Notes from Underground 1864
-The Possessed 1872
-Crime and Punishment 1866
-The Brothers Karamazov 1880
Term
bering sea?
Definition
vitus bering, danish explorer for russia, alaska
Term
siberia geography?
Definition
-Taiga/conifer forest
-Southern part known as boreal forest
-Tundra: above tree line, cold temperatures, almost no growing season
-Southern Steppe: Planes
Term
languages in caucasus
Definition
300
Term
checen conflict: 1917
Definition
sided with bolsheviks
Term
checen conflict: 1944
Definition
deported under stalin
Term
checen conflict:1991
Definition
independence from russia
Term
checen conflict: wars?
Definition
1994-1996 russia withdras, 96-09 russia gains control back
Term
checen conflict: islam
Definition
Role of Shamil Basayev in 1997
--Proclaimed war as part of Islamic revolution
--Fighters from the Middle East joined in
-Ramzan Kadyrov, current president of Chechen republic
Term
checen conflict: shamil basayev
Definition
1997, war part of islamic rev, middle eastern fighters joined
Term
bolshevik rev?
Definition
1917, leon trosky and once in 1905
Term
stalinism
Definition
Collectivization
--Peasant resistance (Created a human-induced famine; they refused to plant crops)
--Elimination of kulaks (rich peasants, peasants who owned land)
--Beginning of Collective Farms
-Industrialization
--The Five-Year Plans. There were 13 of them
--First from 1929-1933
--Know term “shock work” (over-fulfilling-plan)
--Stakhanovite. Named after Aleksei Stakhanov in 1935. He mined 102 tons of coal in just under six hours. He was given rewards for this over-achievement
--The Arts
Term
pasternak
Definition
doctor zhivago, wasnt published, smuggled into italy by billionaire and published 1957, noble prize but declined it, influence dissidents movement, work heavily censored until 80s
Term
doctor zhivago
Definition
civilians over society, Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution
Term
Evtushenko
Definition
politcally active during thaw, samizdat movement,
Term
Bulat Okudzhava
Definition
his songs were never overtly political (in contrast to those of some of his fellow "bards"), the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give official sanction to Okudzhava as a singer-songwriter.
Term
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Definition
story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.
Term
bard poets
Definition
Vladimir Vysotsky
Victor Berkovsky
Alexander Dolsky
Alexander Dulov
Alexander Galich
Alexander Gorodnitsky
Alexander Gradsky
Evgeny Kliachkin
Yuliy Kim
Arik Krupp
Yuri Kukin
Novella Matveyeva
Sergey Nikitin
Tatyana Nikitina
Bulat Okudzhava
Yuri Vizbor
Victor Luferov
Term
iron curtain
Definition
symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989.
Term
1991
Definition
end of soviet union
Term
1989
Definition
Congress of People's Deputies. Boris Yeltsin was elected its chairman.
Term
jackson vanik amendmnet
Definition
1974 provision in United States federal law, intended to affect U.S. trade relations with countries with non-market economies (originally, countries of the Communist bloc) that restrict freedom of emigration and other human rights. It is believed that it was a response to the Soviet Union's "diploma taxes" levied on Jews attempting to emigrate,[1] although amendment doesn't specifically mention Jews and the tax applied to all Soviet citizens, not only Jews.
Term
putsch
Definition
plotted revolt
Term
fall of soviet union?
Definition
destabilized gov., ethnic issues and poverty, nothing left to rule, republics fight for independence
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