FOREIGN POLICY
ECONOMIC POLICY
DOMESTIC POLICY
GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE
USSR Collapse
100
In 2014, Russia under Putin annexed this territory with the stated intention of restoring Russia to Russians.
What is Crimea?
100
The economic plan instated by Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation.
What is Shock Therapy?
100
This political party in Russia has been primarily dominant for recent history and is closely aligned with President Putin
What is the United Russia party?
100
Lenin's preffered form of government structure, that has shaped the USSR and Russia to this day
What is Communism?
100
The leader of the USSR during its collapse.
Who is Gorbachev?
200
The expansion of this supranational organization was a key reason for the Russo-Ukrainian War.
What is NATO?
200
Following the 2021 invasion of Ukraine, this year, 29% of Russia’s government spending went towards this government organization, helping to offset western sanctions.
What is the military?
200
In recent times, Putin has shaped the political culture in Russia by abusing his power by doing things such as altering the constitution to extend his time in office, and allegedly killing this Russian political figure.
Who is Navalny?
200
Major event that transitioned Russia from a Czarist government to a Communist one led by Lenin.
What is the 1917 Revolution?
200
The first president of the Russian federation, succeeding Gorbachev.
Who is Yeltsin?
300
As a result of this, Russia’s economy has recently collapsed, leading to undesirable living conditions in Russia.
What are sanctions?
300
Stalin's rapid policy of taking government control of farmland for industrialization, which led to massive famines.
What is the Five Year Plan?
300
This political party, ironically named, represents far-right nationalist ideals.
What is the Liberal Democratic Party?
300
Communist Party structure where government priorities are defined by a hierarchy of party officials.
What is democratic centralism?
300
Following the collapse of the USSR, Russia went through this process, transitioning towards a democratic government.
What is democratization?
400
This pro-Russia Ukrainian president was ousted and replaced by pro-Western forces, leading to Russia’s retaliatory 2014 annexation.
Who is Victor Yanukovych?
400
Prior to the collapse of the USSR and before both falling oil prices and inflation, Russia held this rank in the ranking of global economies.
What is second place?
400
This is the security organization which originated under Lenin and was responsible for maintaining political and social control. It is now known as the FSB.
What is the secret police?
400
The name of the Policy that has lead Putin to recruit many government officials from the KGB (Russian equivalent of the Secret Service)
What is Nomenklatura?
400
This structure provided a barrier between East and West Germany until its fall, which represented the start of the fall of the USSR.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
This doctrine under President Gorbachev focused on abandoning ideological struggles between the US and USSR to bring peace, eventually leading to Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize.
What is New Thinking?
500
While the power of interest groups have waned since Putin’s rise, this labor organization still holds influence with its 30 million-person membership.
What is the Federation of Independent Trade Unions?
500
Gorbachev policy promoting "openness" and transparency within Russia, easing control on the media, arts, and public discussion.
What is Glasnost?
500
Gorbachev's failed attempt at "restructuring" the Communist Party into a more Western government.
What is Perestroika?
500
This primarily-Muslim region unsuccessfully tried to secede from the Russian Federation in the 1990s.
What is Chechnya?