I am posting these discussion questions ahead of our assessment so that you can research/ add to your notes if necessary. If you have an excused absence the day we have our major discussion, you have one day to post your responses to this blog.
1. How do location and climate affect Industry & Agriculture in Russia? Connect to prior knowledge of other similar nations/ culture regions studied.
2. Discuss how Russia's beginnings were or were not indicative of current ethnic tensions.
3. Explain why WWI was a turning point in Russian history.
4. What events affected US-Russia relations since 1917? Have these events had a positive or negative influence on the US-Russian relationship?
5. How did US sci-fi films (of the 50s) reflect political tensions with Russia?
6. What factors contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
7. Discuss Russia's struggles with transforming a command economy to a market economy.
8. Relate the Chernobyl disaster to the New START Treaty between the US & Russia.
9. Compare & contrast the US & Russian educational system.
10. Compare & contrast the US & Russian criminal justice system.
11. Compare & contrast US & Russian culture and customs. Be sure to include: family structures, gender roles, religious activities, general social behavior, etc. Make sure you discuss "social realism".
1 comment:
1)
Climate affects Russia's Industry and Agriculture. In Russia, the climate usually has a short hot summer following a long bitterly cold winter. Siberia is the coldest place in Russia, it reaches up to -97 degrees. Siberia also has a lot of resources but since it is so called it would be frozen which means that will affect their Industry and Agriculture. Another country that is similar is Europe.
2)
Russia's citizens were separated by nationalities or ethnic groups. Their beginnings were indicative because it help develop their own self or there families like traditional ways and values. There beginnings also not indicative because being separated would make the different nationalities not be developed or used to each other and there differences.
3)
In Russia's history, World War 1 was a turning point for them. How the WW1 was a turning point because the war brought Russia hardship and protest. They ended up with a short supply of food, clothes, fuel, weapons, and ammunitions. After the war, this led them to a new ruler.
4)
The U.S and Russia usually have good relations. Although, some thing that affected there relationship was the Cold War (1945-1960). The Cold War led the two countries become competitive for power.
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Sci-Fi films affected Russia's political tensions. To me, the Sci-Fi films affected them because the U.S would use the Russian actors as the bad guys in the roles of the films, which led people to think that they were really bad people.
6)
The Soviet Union ruled Russia for about 70 years. A factor that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union was a changing of the economy by Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Russia changed from a command economy to a market economy. For Russia, it was a struggle. They struggled with providing sufficient food and jobs for people. Russia even struggle with competing in World Marks by providing goods which would make them struggle even more.
8)
The Chernobyl disaster and the START treaty is both bad and good. The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear bomb that leaked and caused people resources and other things to be affected, or even die. The New START treaty was a treaty between the U.S. and Russia for them to start their relationship again off new views. The Chernobyl Disaster was happening around the same time as the treaty. Since we trade a lot of things with Russia because they have a lot of resources it affected the U.S. because most of their goods were affected by the nuclear explosion.
9)
To me, kids in Russia is smarter than the kids in the U.S. They even have longer days almost all year round for school. Since Russia is poor, the smartest kids have to come to the U.S. to make money. The kids in U.S. isn't that smart as Russia, but we do give a variety in studies.
10)
To me, Russia and the U.S. has about the same crime rate. I think that Russia's punishments in jail is just way worse than the jails in the U.S because here if we went to jail we would get more freedom than Russia.
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I think Russia is way more traditional than the U.S. Russian families are usually more dependent on each other. While the U.S. families are usually broken apart because we have more rights, or freedom. Every gender has a role in Russia, the women has to do almost every thing like clean, work, and take care of children. In the U.S. you will rarely find families with roles and responsibilities. Even though the U.S. and Russia has similar religions, I think Russia is more into there religions, While in the U.S. you don't even have to be because you have freedom.
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