Putin- Russia test

5 things you should know about Putin

1. Putin started his career in the KBG

2. He was not fond of the collapse of the Soviet Union

3. Putin restored order after Yeltsin

4. Wanted to make Russia great again

5. Putin has overall power

How did Putin start his career?

In the KGB until the early 90s when the agency dissolved with he collapse of USSR

Where did Putin live?

Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)

What was Putin influenced by in part of his ideology?

Influenced by the kind of thinking that occurred towards the end of the 80s where it was about power and money, not communism

Where was Putin stationed during KGB?

East Germany

What event occurred for Putin to become haunted in the fall of Soviet Union personally?

There were big protests over Europe with communism…protestors in Dresden ransacked the Stasi (East Germany’s intelligence) building and KGB while Putin was on duty. Putin asked or help for the Soviet army nearby, but he was told they can’t do anything without an order from Moscow, who were silent. This haunted him and disappointed him

How did Putin define the fall of the Soviet Union?

“Greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”

Review: what were some of the harms after communism fell?

• hyperinflation

• Corruption

• Oligarchy

• Wealthy got wealthier

T or F? Putin rose to power slowly.

F

After coming back from East Germany, where did he work first?

For the mayor of Leningrad, Anatoly Sobchak (his old law professor)

What happened to Putin in 19941?

Became deputy mayor

What did Putin do after Sobchak lost the election?

Went to Moscow to join Yeltsins admin

What did he become in 1967?

Deputy chief of staff and director of the FSP (a successor of the KGB)

What made Russia respond by invading Chechnya?

The apartment bombings, which the government blamed Checkyen separatists, but journalists and historians thought FSB was involved in 1999

Did the Russians view Yeltsin as better or worse than Putin?

Better- Yeltsin was an alcoholic, unpopular, seen as a joke…but Putin was popular, serious, and powerful

T or F? Most of corruption and oligarchs went down with Putin

T

How did Putin lower oligarchs power?

He showed who was in power by making them either become jailed if they did not follow his ideas fore example, or he made them be followers to him only in order to gain the popularity of Russians.

How did Putin want to make Russia great again?

He wanted to modernize unity of Soviet republics and played more of a serious role in foreign policy

What might have been the problem to Putin’s plan to make Russia great again?

Many of former Soviet Union countries didnt share his dream, many were Kenner in joining his western clubs like NATO or the EU

How does Putin see the post soviet countries as?

He sees the Eastern European countriess wanting to join western clubs threatening to Russia and his mission

What was the Color Revolution?

Revolutions in the 15 states, seeing the infleunce of the west trying to change the government and that became threatening for the Russian government

Where did Putin call out the US influence bad?

Múnich Conference

T or F? Putin did not find ways to assert Russias power and he didnt see that in the Kremlin decisions to invade former Soviet territories

F

Kremlin took control of what?

TV

How would the westerners describe Russians main source of news?

Cult of personality, walled off from info and foreign info, and personalized dictatorship and close circle

How was Putin able to run for more 2 executive terms?

He changed the consitution to allow him to run for 2 more consecutive terms (2036)

There was an increase in _____ ______ and decrease in _________

State ownership; privization

T or F? Putin uses his position to “bully” the oligarchs and state control

T

How does Russia have a lot of influence to other countries?

Gas

How is Putins early experience within the KGB relevant to his lead ship of the Russian government?

Putins leadership is like the KGB in that its secretive and operates, often, on the fringes of the law

What drove Putins popularity to rise in the early 2000s?

The price of oil skyrocketed int eh early 2000s leading to an increase in Russian exports and economic annual growth over that period and the number of people living in poverty ws cut in half as the standard of living increased

-útil viewed the collapse of the USSR as a “catastrophe” why would he feel that way?

Since the Soviet Union no longer existed, rather 15 independent states formed not under the Soviet control/power.