Russia Test

Marc Chargall

french painter, painted things floating in space, painted stained glass

Wissily Kandinsky

Russian born but was associated with the german school of painting, made the basis for abstract art

Ilya Repin

Born in Ukraine, painted portraits of many of the most famous Russians at the time.

Carl Faberge

Jeweler, fabricated/made eggs every year for Alexander III, later made 2 eggs a year for Nicholas II's wife and daughter.

Anton Chekhov

made "Three sisters" and "the cherry orchard"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

made "Crime and Punishment"

Alexander Pushkin

founded modern Russian literature.

Leo Tolstoy

wrote "Peace and war"

Modest Mussorgsky

made Night on the bald mountain(fantasia)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

composed flight of the bumblebee

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky(PIT)

Nutcracker and sleeping beauty

Sergei Prokofiev

Peter and the wolf

St. Basil's Cathedral

Onion shaped domes

Soviet artests

exiled to the serbian labor camps

Ballet and Classical music

recieved state funding

When did MTV get t Russia

1998

Mcdonalds opened in

1990

Kremlin

where putin lives

Red square

had entertainment in dark time in russia

When did the soviet union split up

1991

what year did the berlin wall come down

1989

what country had a "velvet divorce" and split into 2 countries. Later had a "velvet reunion".

Czechoslovakia

what did Stalin set up in fear of his opposition

KGB

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked together to write the book The ___________ Manifesto

communist

stalins elimination of his opponants

The Great Purges

Red Army/ Bolsheviks

The nickname of the Army that successfully “won” the Russian Civil War

Crimean

The ___________ peninsula was annexed to Russia in 2014 after a referendum was held. This peninsula holds Russia’s largest Black Sea Naval base.

Russia has had found itself warring with rebels from which breakaway region in the early 2000's

Chechnya

Frozen soil all year round; primary soil consistency in Siberia

permafrost

what are the "Whites"

tsar supporters and land owners

what did Lenins communism take over

factories, banks, mines and land

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Russia

Collective farming

Combining the farms of multiple farm owners in order to try and produce more food.

Problems with the workers in the factories

they were worked to death

glasnost

a policy of openness and honesty about problems the country faced.(Not received well)

Republics that demanded independence

Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia

Perestroika

restructuring the soviet economy to make it more efficient

1st demecradically elected leader

Yeltsin

what happened to critics of Putin

jailed/assasssinated

what did Putin change about terms for leaders

allowed himself to run for 2 more terms

where did Putin centralize power

Moscow

what did they call the government when Medvedev was in charge

Puppet government

what percent did Putin win by

64%

How many terms has Putin served

4

What type of government is the Ukraine

Democracy

Why is the russian population dropping

Alcoholism