Russian Final Exam

Russian law passed in 2013

"for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values", also known in English-language media as the "gay propaganda law" and the "anti-gay law"

mongol yoke

Describes the ruthless Mongol rule over the Slavs for about 200 years after the conquest of Chinggis Khan. The Mongols used existing Slavic princes as servants and tax collectors. Good princes were rewarded with heredity.

serfdom

A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation. This was common in early Medeival Europe as well as in Russia until the mid 19th century.

Pre-Soviet Russia had a large middle class.

False.

Roman Catholicism is one of the four religions designated as "traditional" by the Post-Soviet Russian government.

False.

Russia under Putin recognizes a clear division against Church and State.

False.

Russian women enjoy greater equality today than they did during the Soviet period.

False.

Russians celebrated their fellow countrymen who became wealthy after the fall of communism.

False.

The Russian language is more closely related to Chinese than it is to English.

False.

The immediate post-soviet period under Yelstyn was a time of economic and political stability.

False.

The Russians use the Latin alphabet.

False. Cyrillic

There are fewer than twenty minority languages spoken in Russia today.

False. Over 100

Pale of Settlement

Restricted district that Jews in Russia were required to live in. Also known as 'The Pale.'

the two capitals

St. Petersburg and Moscow

Eastern Orthodoxy

The eastern churches that broke from the Catholic Church during the Great Schism

holy synod

The replacement Peter the Great created for the office of Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was a "bureaucracy of laymen under his supervision."

A common feature of Russian politics across historical periods is the centralization of state power at the top.

True.

Language policy represents the attempt of a government to influence language use.

True.

Peasants made up the largest class in pre-soviet Russia.

True.

Russia's treatment of homosexuals is meant to distinguish it from the liberal West.

True.

Russian is among the ten most widely spoken languages in the world.

True.

Russian is the only official language of the Russian federation.

True.

Stalin opened churches during the Second World War to foster patriotism.

True.

The Soviet government practiced tolerance towards religion.

True.

The Soviet political system allowed for only one political party.

True.

The population of the autonomous republic of Kalmykia is traditionally Buddhist.

True.

The traditional religion of most of the countries in Eastern Europe that use the Cyrillic alphabet is Eastern Orthodoxy.

True.

duma

a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.

oligarch

a member of a small ruling group that holds great power

autocracy

a system of government by one person with absolute power

post-petrine

after Peter the great

old believers

are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666

friendship of the peoples

awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military units, as well as administrative subdivisions of the USSR for accomplishments in strengthening of inter-ethnic and international friendship and cooperation, for economical, political, scientific, military, and cultural development of the Soviet Union.

soviet

council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

Tsar

emperor of Russia before 1917

blue

no single word for blue in Russian

Eastern Rite Catholics

ny of a group of Eastern Christian churches that trace their origins to various ancient national or ethnic Christian bodies in the East but have established union (hence, Eastern rite churches were in the past often called Uniates) or canonical communion with the Roman Apostolic See and, thus, with the Roman CatholicChurch. In this union they accept the Roman Catholic faith, keep the seven sacraments, and recognize the pope of Rome as supreme earthly head of the church. They retain, however, all other characteristics—e.g., liturgy, spirituality, sacred art, and especially organization—proper to themselves.

Pogrom

organized massacre of minority group, such as Jews in Russia

Intelligentsia

the status class of educated people whose cultural capital (schooling, education, enlightenment) allowed them to assume practical political leadership.

new Russians

were a newly rich business class who made their fortune in the 1990s in post-Soviet Russia