Had a centralized gov exercising decision making in all parts of the state
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Taiga
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For north D continental climate
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BRICS
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Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
4 biggest emerging national markets around the world
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Forward Capital
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A capital city placed in a remote or peripheral area for economic, strategic, or symbolic reasons.
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Russification
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the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire
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command economy
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Highly controlled economy where gov planners assign production with wage and price controls of goods
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Mackinder's Heartland Theory
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Theorized that Eurasian landmass should never be dominated by single power
Whoever rules heartland
Rules the world island
Whoever rules world island, rules the world
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Tundra
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An extremely cold, dry biome.
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population implosion
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Decline of a society's population when death rates exceed birth rates
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New Silk Road
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Russias fear in Central Asia
High speed railway linking east Asia w Europe
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Near Abroad
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Irrendentist policy
Geographical and ethnic relationships Russia has w it's immediate neighbors from them former Soviet Union republics
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Geopolitical Revanchism
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retaliatory policies aimed at recovering lost territory
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Permafrost
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Ground that is permanently frozen
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Spykman's Rimland Theory
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Theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest.
Made change in what mackinder saID
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Distance Decay
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Increasing distance between places. Reduces interaction among them