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BY THE NUMBERS - 100 the number of Five Year Plans it took for Stalin to achieve industrialization of the Soviet
Union

BY THE NUMBERS - 100
What is 3?

BY THE NUMBERS - 200
Number of seats in the DUMA and the percentage which are
PR and which are SMD

BY THE NUMBERS - 200
What is 450 and ALL are PR since 2007!

BY THE NUMBERS - 300
Number of Prime ministers who served under Yeltsin

BY THE NUMBERS - 300
What is 6?
• GAIDAR
• CHERNOMYRDIN
• KIRIYENKO
• PRIMAKOV
• STEPASHIN
• PUTIN

BY THE NUMBERS - 400
143rd

BY THE NUMBERS - 400
What is the Russian
Federation’s rank on
Transparency International’s
(2011) Corruption Perceptions
Index

BY THE NUMBERS - 500
• fraction of Duma votes required for formal accusation to impeach the Russian president
• fraction of FEDERATION
COUNCIL votes required to remove the president from office

BY THE NUMBERS - 500
What is 2/3 and 2/3?

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 100
Where Russia fought and lost at asymmetrical warfare (their
Vietnam)

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 100
What is Afghanistan?

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 200
• 1.) First Soviet satellite and
2.) First three Soviet republics to say “Bye, ya’ll” to the Soviet
Union

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 200
What are
1. Poland &
2. The Baltics – Latvia,
Lithuania, and Estonia?

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 300
Under President Viktor Yushchenko, this former Soviet Republic has persistently irritated the Kremlin with its ORANGE REVOLUTION and its efforts to move out of Russia's sphere of influence and to become more closely integrated with the West, including seeking to join Nato.

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! +- 300
What is the Ukraine?

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 400
Three former Soviet Republics which joined the EU and
NATO in 2004

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 400
What are Latvia, Lithuania, and
Estonia?

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 500
1. Former Soviet Republic where Russians have CIS peacekeeping troops &
2. where they have interfered with a separatist movement in this region

OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 500
What are
1. Georgia and
2. Abkhazia?

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100
• Stalin’s PURGES were the biggest cause of the leadership problem faced by the Red army at the outset of
WWII.

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100
What is CURIOUS?

Big Names - 200
• The OCTOBER REVOLUTION
(the Bolshevik takeover) actually took place on Nov. 17,
1917.

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200
What is CURIOUS?

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300
• Ownership of PRIVATE
PROPERTY was a criminal offense in Soviet Russia.

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300
What is CURIOUS?

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400
Russia’s main parties have failed to open their policy-making & candidate selection process to ordinary citizens; parties are vehicles designed to serve the interests of party leaders or actual
“cults of personality.”

Big Names - 400
What is CURIOUS?

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500
Russia cut gas supplies to the
United States by 20%;
Gazprom called the dispute as strictly commercial, but it’s probably political.

CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500
What is SPURIOUS?

BIG NAMES - 100
He first wrote about history as class warfare and communism as the wave of the future in
THE COMMUNIST
MANIFESTO in 1848.

This BIG NAMES - 100
Who is Karl Marx?

BIG NAMES - 200
The Polish labor union movement which arose in the shipyards and led the way out of Communism

BIG NAMES - 200
What is SOLIDARITY?

BIG NAMES - 300
Religious leader (from Poland) who helped ease the Soviet
Union on down the road to oblivion

BIG NAMES - 300
Who is Pope John Paul II

BIG NAMES - 400 controlled by the state and its chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, is
Russia's president-elect.

BIG NAMES - 400
What is GAZPROM?

BIG NAMES - 500 the belief that history is the product of class struggle; and obeys the
Hegelian philoos. of history which views truth as the product of history
(class struggle NOT Zeitgeist — the
"Spirit of the Time"), thus truth passes through various moments, including the moment of error, which shapes it

BIG NAMES - 500
What is DIALECTICAL
MATERIALISM?

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 100
40 million

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 100
What is the number who died in order for Stalin to complete industrialization?

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 200
The media and the oligarchs

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 200
What are two groups which
Putin has “cracked down” on in order to solidify his power?

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 300
It exacerbated the Brezhnev regime’s most pressing problem – the economy!

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 300
The arms race –
Nuclear and conventional

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 400
KUKLI

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 400
What is NTV’s popular satirical puppet show which Putin yanked off the air?

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 500
One of two Balkan countries
(one with a separatist region and the other a separatist state itself) which illustrate that the Russian position depends upon whose ox is gored

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 500
What are Serbia & Montenegro?

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 100
Center of Soviet and Russian government in Red Square

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 100
What is the Kremlin?

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 200
Three names for the same city -
Russia’s famed “Window on the West” built by Peter the
Great

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 200
What are:
St. Petersburg
Petrograd
Leningrad

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 300
44 but they are not all used in all of the six Slavic languages

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 300
What is the number of characters in the Cyrillic alphabet?

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 400
Site of democratic protests which preceded those in
Eastern Europe; brutally crushed by the nation’s regime in part because of embarrassment due to the fact that Gorbachev was visiting

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 400
What is Tiananmen Square?

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 500
Shortly after he was confirmed as prime minister, Putin gave the Russian Army one week to oust the Chechen separatists from this neighboring Russian province, which Chechen rebels had invaded.

ANYBODY’S GUESS - 500
What is Dagestan?