POLI SCI 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Democracy Index, Journalism Ethics And Standards, Vladimir Putin
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Russian empire 1796-1914- many different nationalities and religious groups (over 100 major groups, 800 smaller; 1900: ethnic. Russians 43% of the population), no democracy (russian tsars not constrained by nobility or constitution, church and state closely allied), weak modernization (difficult geography and climate, late. 1800s: 75% peasants, 1914: 40% pop. literate, small middle class) Revolutions of 1917, civil war: february 1917: tsar overthrown, october 1917: lenin orchestrates a coup d etat, 1917-1921 civil war: union of soviet socialist republics (ussr) established. Lenin- under lenin s rule, authority was vested solely in the. Stalin (1924-1953)- collective agriculture, massive modernization and industrialization, great terror and purges, victory over the nazis. Brezhnev (1964-1982)- d tente-put the brakes on pretty much any action, warmer relations; domestic stability; economic stagnation. Sputnik- the first human-made object launched into orbit (a satellite) during the space race between russia and the u. s. 1989 revolutions in eastern europe, fall of the berlin wall.
