Chapter 5
Be able to find or identify the following on
a map: Russia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Black Sea, Amur River, Volga
River, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, Kaliningrad,
Kiev, Baku, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka Peninsula
Terms, Concepts and
Issues
Physical
North European Plain
Continental Climate... Tundra, Taiga, and
Steppes
Natural limits to
White-Nights
The Environmental legacy of the
History of
Czarist
Continental expansion and
conflict
Russification
The Russian Revolution
The
Mikhail Gorbechev... Glasnost and
Perestroika
Boris Yeltsin and Democracy in
Demographics
Population decline
Migration
Culture
Orthodox return
Islam
Minorities and ethnic
Russians
Politics
Authoritarian History
Democracy in
Nostalgia for the “good old
days”
Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev
Economics
Remnants of Command
Economy
Infrastructure… Trans-Siberian
Railroad
Heavy Industry
Capitalist Free Market
Economy
Privatization
The Informal Economy
"New Russians," "Oligarchs," Mafia, and
Corruption
Oil
State-owned oil companies…
Gazprom
Lukoil
The Future of