RUSSIA

Question 1

ONE WORD

Answer 1

STRENGTH

Question 2

Strength?

Answer 2

Values authoritarian leadership, political opponents

Question 3

Legitimacy

Answer 3

Charismatic

Question 4

Russia was “Never meant to be”

Answer 4

-governing over such a big landmass
- landlocked
- never found a working system

Question 5

Russian Geography

Answer 5

• harsh weather
• crop failure
• isolation and ruggedness

Question 6

Language Isolation

Answer 6

• never really a part of European or Asian language
• Just eastern language from Europe (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian)

Question 7

Caesaropapism

Answer 7

combining secular (czar) and religious (Russian Orthodox Church) powers

Not really religious BUTTT

Question 8

Cultural backwardness

Answer 8

• started serfdom late compared to Europe
• no real education system
• move toward autocracy

Question 9

Marxism FAIL

Answer 9

Marxism was meant for developed/industrialized countries … Russia was not ready

Question 10

Zemstovs

Answer 10

led Imperial Russia during the Great War since their government sucked, lead to the fall of Imperial Russia

Question 11

Soviet

Answer 11

workers council

Question 12

Bolshevik’s and their goals

Answer 12

• destroy constitutional illusions
• break down democracy and political freedom
• broke down Zemstovs

Question 13

Bolshevik’s Settlement

Answer 13

“socialism in one country”

promote communism in other countries after achieving it themselves

Question 14

Differing from Marxism

Answer 14

• ran by the elite, NOT the working class
• crushed peasant movement
• never actually advocated for the lower class

Question 15

1922

Answer 15

the USSR is established

Question 16

Pure Communism

Answer 16

• political and economic system of a classless, stateless state
• social organizations based on communal ownership in production
• limited private property

Question 17

Pure Socialism

Answer 17

• economic ideology that allows collective or gov/state ownership
• gov. owns the means of production and operated them for public benefit

Question 18

True Realities of Socialism and Communism

Answer 18

Communism: is not feasible, cannot have a stateless state, denies hierarchy and human nature

Socialism: feasible because of the political/state apparatus. can be used by many political systems

Question 19

Proliteriat

Answer 19

-factory workers/laborers
-common or poor
-drinks coffee from gas station

Question 20

Bourgeoisie

Answer 20

• factory owners
• elite
• drinks from starbucks

Question 21

NOMENLATURA

Answer 21

soviet policy of appointing key administrative positions in the bureaucracy by the communist party (basically party loyalty and the spoils system - NOT EFFICIENT)

Question 22

Glasnost

Answer 22

• Gorbachev
• USSR openness and transparency in gov. activities and information

Question 23

Perestroika

Answer 23

-Gorbachev
-restructuring USSR economy and a little of their politics

Question 24

Fall of USSR

Answer 24

-Late 1991
-gradual; taste of freedom gave way to floodgates of democracy

Question 25

Semi-Presidential

Answer 25

a system of republican gov. governed by an elected president, a PM, and cabinet

Question 26

Head of State

Answer 26

PRESIDENT - 6 yr terms, 2 terms limits to NEW presidents - LOOPHOLED - commander in chief, appoints ministers and judges, federal law, powerful - RF citizen, 35+ y/o, never had foreign citizenship - lived in RF 25 yrs +

Question 26

Vice-President?

Answer 26

There is no Vice-President

Question 27

2020 Presidential Amendments

Answer 27

- condemning LGBTQ - "a man and a woman" - two term limit only for new presidents (not Putin and the other guy)

Question 28

Head of Government

Answer 28

PRIME MINISTER - 6 yr term with the President, no term limit - decided by the president, no set of qualifications - answers to Prez and State Duma, NOT A MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE

Question 29

Cabinet

Answer 29

- belongs to PM (but who are we kidding, it is run by the President) - 32 ministers including PM - not legislators

Question 30

The Federal Assembly

Answer 30

State Duma (lower house) and Federation Council (upper house)

Question 31

Federal Subjects

Answer 31

all of Russia's republics, krias, oblasts, federal cities, autonomous oblasts, and okrugs

Question 32

State Duma

Answer 32

- approves Prez's pick for PM - Vote of no confidence on PM (can impeach for 2/3 vote) - 21 y/o+, Russian citizen, hold no other office or be civil servant - 450 seats, Deputies, 5 yr term - ELECTION: 225 directly elected by majority vote, 225 elected by proportional representative vote of party

Question 33

Federation Council

Answer 33

- more formal, less political (not really political parties with struggles) - 30 y/o +, Russian citizen, lived in federal subject for 5 yr+ - 178 seats, Senators, 5 yr term - ELECTION: 2 from each of the Federal Subjects, 1 from Provincial Gov. and confirmed by Legislature - Selection > Election

Question 34

Putin and Oligarchs

Answer 34

Used them to gain power and money and then suppressed them and their power

Question 35

Putin Tactics

Answer 35

Uses the Chechen War to stir up nationalism, suppressed wealthy and mafia, censorship, cyber war, "mysterious" deaths and jailing

Question 36

Putin Successes

Answer 36

does make Russia more of a superpower and not to be messed with

Question 37

Putin Failures

Answer 37

- economic downfall and sanctions - isolated - pariah country (outcast)

Question 38

Illiberal Democracy

Answer 38

a democracy that is not "free nor fair", basically a SUS democracy