AP WORLD HISTORY RUSSIA REVIEW
UNITS 1 AND 2:
Small, agricultural communities
Influence from invading nomadic groups
UNIT 3:
Influence of Slavic farmers/Scandinavian Traders
Kievan Rus’ à Dependence on Byzantine Trade
Eastern/Russian Orthodox Christianity
Jewish Migrations and Limitations
Role of Boyars in Community
The Golden Horde à Slower Development
Ornate Architecture
UNIT 4:
Expulsion of Mongols
The Ivans (Ivan III; Ivan the Terrible)
Expansion of Empire (Eastern Europe, Poland, Siberia)
Time of Troubles (Old Believers)
The Romanov Family
Peter the Great (Westernization, Navy, Warm Water Port, Trade, Arts and Culture)
Catherine the Great (Limited Westernization, Dependent on Nobility, Partition of Poland)
Serfdom
UNIT 5:
Napoleonic Invasion à Developed Holy Alliance
Decembrist Uprising
The Crimean War à Industrialization
Alexander II (Industrialization by Sergei Witte)
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Relationship with Ottoman Empire; Western Europe; Japan
Expansion into Asia; Eastern Europe
Pogroms against Jews (Alexander III)
Russo-Japanese War
UNIT 6:
Revolution of 1905
Czar Nicholas II (Duma; Constitution)
Role World War I; World War II
The Revolution(s) of 1917
Communism
The U.S.S.R / Soviet Union (Vladimir Lenin; Joseph Stalin; Nikita Khrushchev)
The Cold War (Korea, Vietnam, Cuba)
Gorbachev’s Reforms (glasnost; perestroika)
The End of the Cold War
KEY THEMES:
· Role in Trade
· Attempts to Challenge Western Dominance
· Eastern/Russian Orthodox Church
· Expansionism
· Radical Ideologies (Communism)
· Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
PREVIOUS ESSAY QUESTIONS:
· Analyze similarities/differences between the role of the state in Japan’s economic development and the role of the state in the economic development of ONE of the following during the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries (China, Ottoman Empire, Russia)
· Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from 300 to 1450 CE
· Analyze changes and continuities along the Silk Roads from 200 BCE to 1450 CE
· Compare the historical processes of empire building in the Spanish maritime empire during the period from 1450 through 1800 with the historical processes of empire building in ONE of the following land-based empires (Russian Empire; Ottoman Empire)
· Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the revolutionary processes in TWO of the following countries, beginning with the dates specified (Mexico – 1910; China – 1911; Russia – 1917)
· Compare the process of state-building in TWO of the following in the period 600 to 1450 CE (Islamic States; City-States; Mongol Khanates)
· Compare the effects of the First World War in TWO of the following regions (East Asia, Middle East, South Asia)
· Compare differing responses to industrialization in any TWO of the following (Japan, Ottoman Empire, China, Russia)