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Case Study: Russia Flashcards

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A small party in the Russian Duma with a social - democratic orientation

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A Just Russia

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A system in which power is divided unevenly among regional bodies - for example, some regions are given greater power over taxation or language rights than others, a more likely outcome in a country with significant ethnic divisions

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Asymmetric Federalism

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THERE MOUNTAINS Southwest Russia, near the Black sea and Turkey, where there is a diverse mixture of non - Slavic peoples with distinct language and customs as well as a much stronger historical presence of Islam than Orthodox Christianity

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Caucasus

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Russian republic that has been a source of military conflict since 1991

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Chechnya

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Soviet secret police created by Lenin; precursor to the KGB

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Cheka

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A loosely integrated body that incorporates many former Soviet republics

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Commonwealth of Independent States

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Successor party in Russia to the communist party in the Soviet Union

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Communist Party of the Russian Federation

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Highest body in the Russian legal system; responsible for constitutional review

typically serves the whim of the executive ( President )

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Constitutional Court

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Lower house of Russian Legislature

President can hold a flash election if he doesn’t like something that they have chosen to do

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Duma

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Economic and political union among several former Soviet States

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Eurasian Economic Union

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Successor to the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency to follow the fall of the USSR

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Federal Security Service

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Upper house of the Russian legislature

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Federation Council

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Literally “openness”; the policy of political liberalization implemented in the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s

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Glasnost

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A process in Russia whereby the former Nomenklatura directors of firms were able to acquire the largest number of shares when those firms were privatized

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Insider Privatization

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Soviet secret police agency charged with domestic and foreign intelligence

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KGB

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Oligarch arrested and imprisoned for his opposition to the Putin administration

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Eleventh - century fortress in the heart of Moscow that has been the historical seat of Russian state power

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Kremlin

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Russian Revolutionary who lead the 1917 Russian Revolution and headed the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1924

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Political party in Russia with a nationalist and antidemocratic orientation

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Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

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President of Russia from 2008 to 2012; prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020; current head of the United Russia Party

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Dimitry Medvedev

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Prime minister of Russia since 2020 successor to Dimitry Medvedev

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Mikhail Mishustin

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Political activist who has been detained repeatedly for his opposition to Putin and United Russia

he has recently died in an unexplained way while in what is informally considered a gulag

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Alexei Navalny

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Politically sensitive or influential jobs in the state, society, or economy that were staffed by people chosen or approved by the Communist Party

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Nomenklatura

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Russian people noted for their control of large amounts of the Russian economy (including the media), their close ties to the government, and the accusations of corruption surrounding their rise to power

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Oligarchs

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A variant of Christianity separate from Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; originally centered in Byzantium (modern day turkey)

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Orthodox Christianity

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Russian parties created by political elites to support their political aspirations; typically lacking any ideological orientation

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Parties of Power

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Literally “restructuring”; the policy of political and economic liberalization implemented in the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s

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Perestroika

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Top policy - making and executive body of the Communist Party

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Politburo

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Current President of Russia as of 2012, also president from 1999 to 2008; prime minister 2008 to 2012

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Vladimir Putin

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“men of power” who have their origins in the security agencies and are close to President Putin

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Siloviki

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Origin of the word Russia, thought to refer to Vikings who settled the region in the ninth century c.e

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Rus

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A process of rapid marketization

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Shock Therapy

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Name given to workers council that sprang up in 1917

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Soviets

30
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Succeeded Lenin as head of Soviet Union until his death in 1953

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Joseph Stalin

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Russian word for emperor

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Tsar

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Main political party in Russia and supporter of Vladimir Putin

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United Russia

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Small party in Russia that advocates democracy and a liberal political - economic system

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Yabloko

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President of Russia from 1991 to 1999

first president after the fall of the old soviet union

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Boris Yeltsin

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