1	RUSSIA II (CHAPTER 2: 109-122
2	POLITICAL FRAMEWORK SOVIET LEGACY REVOLUTION (1905-1917) BOLSHEVIKS VERSUS MENSHEVIKS V.I. LENIN (VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV) CAPITAL: PETROGRAD TO MOSCOW (1918) FEDERATION/FEDERAL STRUCTURE USSR (UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS) -1924 SSRS, ASSRS, AUTONOMOUS REGIONS RUSSIFICATION
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4	COMMAND ECONOMY AN ECONOMY IN WHICH THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION ARE OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE STATE AND IN WHICH CENTRAL PLANNING OF THE STRUCTURE AND THE OUTPUT PREVAILS FEATURES OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY PRODUCTION OF PARTICULAR MANUFACTURED GOODS TO PARTICULAR PLACES ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLICS
5	ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK CENTRALLY PLANNED (EARLY 1920S) MAJOR OBJECTIVES SPEED INDUSTRIALIZATION COLLECTIVIZE AGRICULTURE KEY MECHANISMS GOSPLAN SOVKHOZ (1920-30S) KOLKHOZ (1939)
6	"CZARISM (<1917)" CZARISM (<1917) LENIN STALIN KRUSCHEV BRESHNEV GORBACHEV
7	"LENIN (1918 - 1927" LENIN (1918 - 1927) INTRODUCED MARXIST PHILOSOPHY REPLACED PRIVATE WITH PUBLIC OWNERSHIP DEVELOPED NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLANS ESTABLISHED SOVIET POLITICAL STRUCTURE BASED ON ETHNIC IDENTITIES
8	"STALIN (1927 - 1953" STALIN (1927 - 1953) ALL ASSETS NATIONALIZED CREATION OF HUGE CENTRALIZED STATE MACHINE OVER ALL ASPECTS OF SOVIET LIFE PURGES OF DISSIDENTS (30-60 MILLION) COLLECTIVIZED FARMING (SOVKHOZ) CONCENTRATION ON HEAVY INDUSTRY AT EXPENSE OF AGRICULTURE
9	"KRUSCHEV (1953 - 1964" KRUSCHEV (1953 - 1964) GREATER EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURE VIRGIN LANDS PROGRAM - PASTURES INTO IRRIGATED WHEAT FIELDS ULTIMATELY LED TO ARAL SEA ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER BRESHNEV (1964 - 1982) HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY ECONOMIC STAGNATION (AGRICULTURE)
10	"GORBACHEV (1985 - 1991" GORBACHEV (1985 - 1991) INITIATED ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REFORM PERESTROIKA RESTRUCTURING INTENDED TO PRODUCE MAJOR CHANGES TO BOTH THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEM ECONOMIC AIM: TO CATCH UP WITH WESTERN ECONOMIES POLITICAL AIM: REFORM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY GLASNOST POLICY OF ENCOURAGING GREATER OPENNESS IN BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
11	"A SHARP DECLINE IN AGRICULTURAL..." A SHARP DECLINE IN AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION ECONOMIC OUTPUT DOWN BY 4% IN 1990 & 10-15% IN FIRST HALF OF 1991 INTENSIFICATION OF ETHNO-CULTURAL NATIONALISM & SEPARATISM UNITY OF THE SOVIET UNION (MACRO) & UNITY OF REPUBLICS (MICRO) THREATENED PLURALIZATION OF SOVIET POLITICS & STEADY EROSION OF COMMUNIST PARTY MONOPOLY OR POWER
12	"THE EMERGENCE OF A “..." THE EMERGENCE OF A “COMMONWEALTH” OF SLAVIC COUNTRIES TO REPLACE THE SOVIET UNION COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT GORBACHEV
13	CURRENT ORGANIZATION RUSSIAN FEDERATION (1992) 89 POLITICAL UNITS 21 REPUBLICS 11 AUTONOMOUS REGIONS (OKRUGS) 49 PROVINCES (OBLASTS) 6 TERRITORIES (KRAYS) 2 AUTONOMOUS FEDERAL CITIES
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16	CHECHNYA IN SUPPORT OF RUSSIAN CONTROL INFIGHTING AFTER INDEPENDENCE WAS GRANTED IN 1991 CHECHENS INSTALLED A SEPARATIST LEADER ATTACKS ON RUSSIANS CHECHEN TERRORISM WHY CHECHNYA DESERVES INDEPENDENCE FOUGHT AGAINST THE RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS TWO CENTURIES AGO SOVIETS REARRANGED THE BORDERS TO INCLUDE NON-CHECHEN HOMELAND MASSIVE PERSECUTION DURING STALIN’S REIGN 1991 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
17	RUSSIA’S PROSPECTS ECONOMIC INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE MANUFACTURING CAPACITY POLITICAL INTERNAL FRICTION EXTERNAL CHALLENGES
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