JEOPARDY Russia #2

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) ?