1. Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union Dr. Victoria Vernon Ph.D.(Economics), University of TX, Austin M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington B.A., Kharkov State University, Ukraine

2. Russia Ukraine Belarus Moldova Kazakhstan Armenia Georgia Azerbaijan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Turkmenistan Tajikistan Estonia Lithuania Latvia

3. Germany Hungary Poland Czech Republic Slovakia Slovenia Croatia Macedonia Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia and Montenegro Bulgaria Romania Albania Central and Eastern Europe

4. GDP 2008 - per capita, purchasing power parity https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Rank Country GDP 1 Liechtenstein $ 118,000 10 United States $ 48,000 35 Germany $ 34,800 43 Slovenia $ 30,800 53 Czech Republic $ 26,800 55 Slovakia $22,600 57 Estonia $ 21,900 60 Hungary $ 20,500 68 Latvia $ 18,500 69 Lithuania $ 18,400 70 Poland $ 17,800 72 Croatia $ 16,900 75 Russia $ 15,800 84 Mexico $ 14,400 87 Bulgaria $ 13,200 90 Cuba $12,700 95 Belarus $12,000 96 Kazakhstan $ 12,000 102 Montenegro $10,600 Rank Country GDP 103 WORLD $10,500 105 Brazil $10,300 106 Azerbaijan $ 9,500 108 Macedonia $ 9,200 119 Serbia $8,200 122 Ukraine $ 7,800 127 Armenia $6,600 128 Bosnia and Herzegovina $ 6,600 131 China $ 6,100 133 Turkmenistan $ 5,800 139 Georgia $ 5,000 155 Iraq $ 4,000 172 Uzbekistan $2,700 171 India $ 2,900 175 Moldova $ 2,500 181 Kyrgyzstan $ 2,200 188 Kenya $1,800 190 Tajikistan $ 1,800 192 Kosovo $ 1,800

5. USSR History Timeline 1861 End of Feudalism, end of serfdom 1905 Constitutional monarchy, Duma 1914-18 World War I 1917 February and October Revolutions 1918-21 Civil war, War Communism, famine 1921-28 Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) 1922 Soviet Union formed 1924 Lenin's death 1928 Stalin's First Five Year Plan 1930-33 Collectivization of Agriculture 1930's Purge Trials 1939-45 World War II, beginning of cold war 1953 Stalin's death 1955-64 Khrushchev's regime 1964-82 Brezhnev's regime 1985-91 Gorbachev's regime 1980's Perestroika 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union

7. Founding Fathers Karl Marx (1818-1883) Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Stalin Mao

9. Communist Manifesto, 1848 “ The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself ; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons – the modern working class – the proletarians . Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution . The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains . They have a world to win .” “ A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.”

10. Theory of Dialectical Materialism Materialism : world is material Dialectics : laws of development of nature, society 1. Universe is an integral whole , all things are mutually interdependent 2. Nature is in a state of constant motion 3. Development process: insignificant quantitative changes lead to fundamental, qualitative leaps from one state to another 4. All things contain within themselves internal contradictions , - primary cause of motion, change, and development Basis = economic relations in society Super-structure = institutions: laws, church, culture, etc

13. Russia before 1917: Hereditary Monarchy Peter I (the Great), (1682-1725) Catherine I, (1725-1727) Peter II, (1727-1730) Anna, (1730-1740) Ivan VI, (1740-1741) Elizabeth, (1741-1762) Peter III, (1762) Catherine II (the Great), (1762-1796) Paul I, (1796-1801) Alexander I, (1801-1825) Nicholas I, (1825-1855) Alexander II, (1855-1881) Alexander III, (1881-1894) Nicholas II, (1894-1917, abdicated) Kievan Rus, Duchy of Moscovy, Mongol invasion (1237-1452) Ivan the Terrible (1547-84), first Tsar of all Russia The Romanov dynasty (1613-1917): 19 Tsars

19. Labor Force Participation Rates for Women

20. Who gets national income? In the USSR - Workers. In capitalist countries- Exploitators. National income increased 60% in 1950 compared to 1940

21. Declining Standards of Living

22. Adult literacy rate, 2005 Rank Country Literacy 1 Czech Republic 99.9 1 Georgia 99.9 1 Germany 99.9 1 United States 99.9 22 Estonia 99.8 23 Latvia 99.7 23 Poland 99.7 23 Slovenia 99.7 27 Belarus 99.6 27 Lithuania 99.6 27 Slovakia 99.6 30 Kazakhstan 99.5 30 Tajikistan 99.5 32 Armenia 99.4 32 Russian Federation 99.4 32 Ukraine 99.4 35 Hungary 99.3 35 Uzbekistan 99.3 38 Azerbaijan 98.8 38 Turkmenistan 98.8 Rank Country Literacy 40 Albania 98.7 40 Kyrgyzstan 98.7 45 Bulgaria 98.2 46 Croatia 98.1 47 South Korea 97.9 52 Romania 97.3 53 Argentina 97.2 55 Cuba 96.9 55 Israel 96.9 59 Moldova 96.2 60 Republic of Macedonia 96.1 65 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.6 81 China (mainland only) 90.9 146 India 61.0

24. Rank Country Natural gas - production (cu m) 1 World 2,640,000,000,000 2 Russia 587,000,000,000 3 United States 548,100,000,000 4 European Union 239,200,000,000 5 Canada 165,800,000,000 6 United Kingdom 105,900,000,000 7 Algeria 80,300,000,000 8 Iran 79,000,000,000 9 Netherlands 77,750,000,000 10 Indonesia 77,600,000,000 11 Saudi Arabia 56,400,000,000 12 Uzbekistan 55,800,000,000 13 Norway 54,600,000,000 14 Turkmenistan 54,600,000,000 15 Malaysia 53,660,000,000 16 Mexico 47,300,000,000 17 United Arab Emirates 44,400,000,000 18 Argentina 37,150,000,000 19 China 35,020,000,000 20 Australia 33,080,000,000

25. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook Rank Country Oil - production (bbl/day), 2005 1 World 79,650,000 2 Saudi Arabia 9,475,000 3 Russia 9,150,000 4 United States 7,610,000 5 Iran 3,979,000 6 China 3,504,000 7 European Union 3,424,000 8 Mexico 3,420,000 9 Norway 3,220,000 10 Venezuela 3,081,000 11 Canada 3,070,000 12 Nigeria 2,451,000 13 Kuwait 2,418,000 14 United Arab Emirates 2,396,000 15 United Kingdom 2,393,000 16 Iraq 2,093,000 17 Brazil 2,010,000 18 Libya 1,643,000 19 Angola 1,600,000 20 Algeria 1,373,000 21 Kazakhstan 1,300,000

26. Global Gas Resource Base Proved Reserves Current Net Gas Exporters

27. Generation by Fuel in Western Europe avg. GW