Exam 3: Russia

The main part of Russia is so big that it requires __________ time zones.

The __________ flows through the core region of Russia,providing transportation,fresh water and fishing.

__________,described as the largest freshwater lake in the world,was at one time pristine,but pollutants have entered its waters from nearby industrial activity.

Why were the Soviets sending ethnic Russians to live in non-Russian parts of the Soviet Union.

The era from the end of WWII in 1945 until the collapse of the USSR in 1991,known as the __________,did not involve direct military armed conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Type D (continental)climates dominate the southern portion of __________,and the territory consists mainly of coniferous forests in a biome called the __________.

The Soviet Union exemplified a __________ in which economic decisions were made by the state.

The term __________ refers to the attempt to minimize cultural differences and turn all Russian subjects into Russians,or at least to make them as Russian as possible.

In Marxist thought,__________ is an oppressive economic system,in which the working class (the proletariat)is oppressed by the wealthy middle class (the bourgeoisie).

The Soviet leaders did not want individual __________ to become rich and threaten their economic system.

Marxists believe that the __________,should revolt,rise up against the __________.

The Volga is the second-longest river in Europe,at 2,293 miles,and it drains most of Russia's western core region.

The Kuznetsk Basin is a region of __________.

To tame the diversity of the empire,the Soviets chose some of the major groups (Uzbek,Kazakh,and so forth),and established __________ that corresponded to these major groups.

There had been a strong Uzbek national identity prior to the formation of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

The forced collectivization of agriculture brought about a devastating famine in 1932-33,in which between six and eight million people starved to death.

__________ climates dominate most of Russia.

In 1991,when the Soviet Union collapsed,the Soviet republics became independent countries.

After the USSR collapsed,Russia's population began a steep decline due to __________.

Russia still needs to modernize its dilapidated__________ if it is to compete economically against the European Union,North America or East Asia.