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


A) housing stock
B) manufacturing base
C) agricultural system
D) transportation system
E) economy

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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


A) Siberia;taiga
B) Siberia;tundra
C) Russia;taiga
D) Russia;permafrost
E) the Eastern Frontier;permafrost

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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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.


A) nation states
B) independent countries
C) urban cores
D) Soviet Socialist Republics
E) autonomous regions

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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


A) capitalist farmers
B) industrialists
C) ethnic groups
D) SSRs (Soviet Socialist Republics)
E) all of the above

F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

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__________ climates dominate most of Russia.


A) Type B (dry or arid climate)
B) Type C ( or temperate)
C) Type D (continental)
D) Type E (polar or extreme)
E) Type H (highland)

F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

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The Kuznetsk Basin is a region of __________.


A) mining
B) timber processing
C) steel and aluminum production
D) agricultural production
E) a,b & c

F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

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


A) declining birth rates as a result of economic and social crisis
B) high death rates because of alcoholism,heart disease,and the collapse of the social safety net
C) a demographic shift whereby Russians moved to other parts of the world
D) all of the above
E) a & b

F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

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

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Russians were sent around the empire to ...

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

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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.


A) Russification
B) Iron Curtain Era
C) Cold War
D) Soviet Era
E) b & c

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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

A) True
B) False

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


A) Volga River
B) Don River
C) Ural River
D) Baikal River
E) none of the above

F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

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


A) socialism
B) capitalism
C) communism
D) cooperatives
E) a barter system

F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

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


A) market economy
B) cooperative
C) corporate economy
D) command economy
E) participatory economy

F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

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

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


A) four
B) five
C) six
D) eight
E) ten

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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

A) True
B) False

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

A) True
B) False

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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.

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

A) True
B) False

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