History of Russia Questions

What Mongol military leader led the Golden Horde in its conquest of Kievan Rus in the 1200s?

Started on International Women's Day when working women took to the streets of Petrograd in protest of WWI and awful living conditions

Part of Lenin's platform; three promises to the people of Russia.

Bolshevik leader who was brought back to Russia by Germany during WWI; suffered a series of strokes in 1922 and died in 1924.

Last Tsar of Russia; John Greene said he "built no efficient administration to ensure adequate weaponry, or transportation, or food, or medical care, or the other necessities of modern warfare."

Treaty the Bolsheviks signed with the Germans to allow Russia to stop fighting WWI; Russia had to cede large tracts of land to Germany

What is another name for the revolution of 1905?

because it was a meeting point for people from many people with many different languages, _________ was referred to by Arab geographers by a name that means "mountain of languages"

approximately 50 different ethnic groups inhabit the ______ region.

Which political figure came out of Russian exile to lead the group (and quickly became the faceof the Russian Revolution) of the previous question?

president ________ created 7 large federal districts in Russia to help carry out some of the economic reforms planned in Moscow

the republic of ________ has experienced 2 invasions by Russian forces since the fall of the soviet union

fighting between Armenia & Azerbaijan over _______ resulted in hundreds of thousands of people killed and nearly 1 million refugees

The political figure of the previous question campaigned on which political slogan to gainpopularity amongst the Russian civilians?

the decision about whether to consider the Caspian a sea or lake to help determine

_______ officials have promised to build a large protective dome at the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster

the Russian government is trying to move toward a __________ economy

After Vladmir Lenin died, which political leader was initially set to be the next leader of theCommunist Party but Stalin had him exiled?

An economy in which the central government makes all the decisions about a country's economic policies is known as aA. command economyB. communistic economyC. labor economyD. collective economy

________ was established as Russias capital in the 18th century in order to provide direct access to western Europe via the Baltic sea