JEOPARDY Russia #2
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JEOPARDYRussia #2
IDEOLOGY
MATTERS
It’s the ECONOMY,
STUPID!
CURIOUS
or
SPURIOUS
WHO’S WHO
ELECTIONS PARTY TIME
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IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 100
Term Lenin used to describe the group of revolutionary leaders
who could provoke a communist revolution
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 100
What is “vanguard” of the revolution?
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 200
The two-prongs of Stalin’s domestic policy for the USSR
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 200
What are
1. Collectivization &
2. industrialization?
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 300
They vied for control of the CPSU after Lenin’s death:
1. one backed the COMINTERN and
2. the other backed “SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY”
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 300
Who are Trotsky and Stalin?
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 400
1. Premier and party secretary &
2. policy he announced in the famous 1956 SECRET
SPEECH
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 400
What are
a. Khrushchev &
b. De-Stalinization?
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 500
most important ideological concept in USSR during
Leninist period; rule of the few for the good of the many
IDEOLOGY MATTERS - 500
What is DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM ?
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 100
the current condition of the Russian economy
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 100
What is in recovery or – better yet -- booming, largely due to
rising oil prices?
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 200
1. Rampant inflation,
2. drastically reduced output,
3. near collapse
…Describes the condition of…
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 200
What was the condition of the Russian economy in 1991 (at the fall of the Soviet Union)?
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 300
It’s blamed by many Russians for the crash of 1998 and the miserable economic which
accompanied it. But it’s not the real cause of the crash. It was the only aspect of reform that
was TRANSPARENT.
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 300
What is privatization?
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 400
The crooked program through which Soviet bankers financed
their control of large state-owned industries in privatization
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 400
What is the “loans for shares” program?
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 500
When full socialism proved a financial disaster, Lenin retrenched to these and
instituted his NEP
It’s the ECONOMY, STUPID! - 500
What are the “commanding heights”?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 100
Russians are more likely to follow charismatic politicians
than Westerners are.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 100
What is spurious?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 200
Russians trust government officials more than Westerners
do.
Big Names - 200
What is spurious?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 300
Communism was EGALITARIAN. And to Russians, even today,
EQUALITY means “Equality of CONDITION or RESULT”
rather than “equality of OPPORTUNITY.”
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 300
What is curious?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 400
The Russian president can rule by decree.
Big Names - 400
What is curious?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 500
GAZPROM, the largest gas company in the world, shifted more than 99% of its assets to politically connected insiders, with the state retaining the rest.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS - 500
What is SPURIOUS?
(60% shifted – ALWAYS a bit suspicious of extreme answers
on multiple choice tests!)
Who’s Who - 100
• Vladimir Gusinsky,
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
• and Boris Berezovsky
Who’s Who - 100
Who are oligarchs?
Who’s Who - 200
ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA
Who’s Who - 200
Who is the Russian journalist & outspoken critic of Putin and his Chechen policy who was
shot in the lobby of her apartment building in
Moscow?
Who’s Who - 300
34-yr. old economic reformer appointed acting Prime Minister
by Yeltsin in June1992, he attempted a radical restructuring
of the economy, but met with fierce resistance from the Duma’s
anti-reform majority and was replaced by Victor Chernomyrdin
in December.
Who’s Who - 300
Who is YEGOR GAIDAR ?
Who’s Who - 400
Yeltsin’s minister of privatization from 1991-1994 and chief-of-staff after the 1996 election
Who’s Who - 400
Who is Anatoly Chubias?
Who’s Who - 500
Gennady Zyuganov
&
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Who’s Who - 500
Liberal-Democratic Party
The leaders of
A. CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation)
B. Liberal-Democratic Party
ELECTIONS - 100
They were HIGH in the early 1990’s, but have generally
declined since.
ELECTIONS - 100
What are voter turnout rates?
ELECTIONS - 200
It’s why was there no second round in the 2000 Russian
presidential election.
ELECTIONS - 200
What is because PUTIN WON a majority (52%) OF THE
POPULAR VOTE in the first round ?
ELECTIONS - 300
Putin by 71%
ELECTIONS - 300
Who was the winner of the 2004 presidential election and by
what % of the vote?
ELECTIONS? - 400
They were a sharp rebuke to Yeltsin. (Communists won
1/3+ of the Duma seats; reform parties: Democratic
Choice – 9 seats; Yabloko – 45 seats)
ELECTIONS - 400
What were the parliamentary (Duma) elections of 1995?
ELECTIONS - 500
The principal organizer of Yeltsin’s re-election campaign, he used his media empire to promote Yeltsin’s candidacy.
ELECTIONS - 500
Who is Boris Berezovsky?
PARTY TIME - 100
CPSU and CPRF
PARTY TIME - 100
What are
1. the Communist Party of the Soviet Union &
2. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation
PARTY TIME - 200
7% and 1%
Number Nuisance - 200
What is the percentage of Russians who belonged to the Soviet Communist party and
the percentage who belong to a political party today ?
PARTY TIME - 300
Founded in Apr. 2001 as a merger of Fatherland All-
Russia Party and the Unity Party, it’s the rootin’-tootin-
Putin party!
PARTY TIME - 300
What is United Russia?
PARTY TIME - 400
Ultra-nationalist Russian political party which is anything but what its name indicates. It’s led by a right-wing nut case whose proposed nuking Japan.
PARTY TIME - 400
What is the Liberal Democratic Party?
PARTY TIME - 500
YABLOKO and UNION OF RIGHT FORCES
PARTY TIME - 500
What are the two main Russian reformist parties (won 4 and 3 seats in the Duma in 2003) ?