GEOG 1001 : Exam 3 Study Guide And Notes
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Physical geography: largest country, 9 different time zones, 140 million people, largest political and social experiment, communism. Russia under the czars: from caesar , expanded empire east instead of colonies, all the way across siberia to the pacific important agricultural regions (ukraine, mineral deposits (siberia, silk road, many culturally and ethnically different areas. Political change: beginning of the 20th century. Majority : storming of the winter palace in st petersburg in 1917, birth of the union of soviet socialist republic in 1924, optimism everything would be fair . Safety net : people began to take advantage of the system. Why should i work hard for you : collapse in 1991. Stalin: early ideas of communism died in struggle for power, joseph stalin took over after lenin"s death, original name didn"t sound russian, much more of a tyrant, no free press.
