History of Russia and the
Republics
Warm Up #3
 1. Where does the majority of Russian
population live?
 2. What mountain range separates Europe
from Asia?
 3. What is the synonym for “plain” in
Russian geography?
 4. What organization greatly benefited
from the fall of the Soviet Union?
 5. What is the longest river in Europe?
 **Get out your movie questions**
Warm Up
Grab a scantron from the back
table
Put your name and “Map Test
Unit 5 Russia” on it.
Study for 5 min.
EXPANSION!
 Began in the region
between the Baltic
and the Black Seas
 Mongols controlled
from 1200s to 1500s.
 Ivan the Great took
over and began
expanding
 As they added more
territory, they also
added more people.
Belonged to different
ethnic groups, spoke
different languages,
and practiced
different religions.
Russia Lags Behind the West Tsar Peter the Great
 Moved capital to St.
Petersburg
 Enlisted new reforms
(western dress, etc.)
 Russia industrialized late
1800s (very late).
 Harsh working conditions,
low wages, other
hardships.
 People began to resent the
leadership (tsar)
Tsar Nicholas II
 Tsar Nicholas description
 Rasputin description
 What did people think?
 Lost the Russo-Japanese
war in 1905
 Made Tsar look weak
 WWI began in 1914. Russia
joined. LOTS of men, not
enough weapons,
transportation, etc.
 People ready for change
REVOLUTION!!
 Russian Revolution- 1917
 Duma took control 1st
then….
 Russian communist party
led by Vladimir Lenin took
control
 Communist government
put in place (Soviet Union)
 Stalin took over by World
War II (1939)
Command Economy
 Communism inspired by
Karl Marx
 Command Economy =
 one in which the
central government
makes all key economic
decisions and own all
industry
 Collective Farms =
 owned by government
– laborers worked on
the farms
 Very few benefited from
these economic
changes
Cold War Tensions
 Tensions between the US and
USSR began to develop during
WWII
 Domino Effect- .
 Cold War- tension between the
two (called cold because it
never turned into a military
war)
 Mikhail Gorbachev took over in
1980s
 Put in economic and political
reforms
 This helped the Soviet Union to
collapse
 Fell in 1991
 Divided into 15 republics
Today
 Now has an elected
president (Putin)
 Rich variety of ethnic
groups
 Most are Eastern
Orthodox Christians
(religion)
 Large cities (Moscow, St.
Petersburg) resemble
cities of the West
Q 1) An economy in which the
central government makes all the
decisions about a country’s
economic policies is known as a
 A. command
economy
 B. communist
economy
 C. labor economy
 D. collective
economy
Q 2) Which of the following was
used by Russian leaders as part
of their move from a command
economy to a capitalist economy?
 A. privatization
C. distance decay
 B. economic reform D. monetary policy
Warm Up #4
 1. Which Tsar began reforms in Russia (like
requiring citizens to dress like Europeans) to help
Russia catch back up to Europe?
 2. What were some factors that contributed to the
fall of Tsar Nicholas II?
 3. What type of government was put in to place?
 4. Name 3 Communist leaders and give a brief
description of each.
Comp NB #5- The Student
 1. Who is Anton Chekhov?
 2. What was Russia struggling with at the time
that he was writing?
 3. What did he demonstrate?
 4. What does he describe when he compares his
time period to the time of Ivan the Terrible?
 5. Why is the girl crying?
 6. What feeling are you left with concerning the
last paragraph?
 7. What is your overall feeling of the story? (A
paragraph)
Composition NB #6 (One Day…)
 Rewrite the questions, and use the reading to answer
them.
 1. Why was Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrested? AND,
where was he sent?
 2. What is this story based upon?
 3. Why is eating the only time a prisoner lives for
himself?
 4. Who is Volkovoi?
 5. Why didn’t they like putting a man in the cells in the
morning?
 6. Describe Shukhov’s job.
 7. What image are you left with his last 4-5 sentences?
 8. Overall, what was your feeling after reading this? (A
paragraph)
Warm Up
 Turn in Composition Notebooks on
the stool
 Grab any items from the back of
the room in the return box labeled
7th.
Come in and get in groups- begin
practicing
Grab 3 papers from the back
desk