Describes Russia's lack of development and lagging behind world powers in the second half of the nineteenth century
What is backwardness
100
Organizied crime that has had considerable influence in Russia
What is the mafia
100
Lower house in Russia Parliament
What is the Duma
100
Party that won ideologically against the Mensheviks
What is the Bolsheviks
200
An attempt to overthrow a government. One of these took place during Gorbachev's rule
What is a coup
200
Leader who first employed Marxist thought in Russia
Who is V.I. Lenin
200
Person directly elected for a four-year term in a two-ballot system
What is the President
200
Site of Russian nuclear accident
What is Chenobyl
300
The degree to which people accept and endorse their regime
What is legitimacy
300
Theory that advocates a classless, socialist society
What is Marxism
300
Leaders of Russian republics that Putin proposed should be appointed by the president to harmonize local law with national policy
What are governors
300
Institution that was unable to withstand a counterrevolution by tsarist forces without the help of the Bolsheviks
What is the provisional government
400
Title of Russian rulers before communism
What is tsar
400
Term that says although elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties
What is illiberal democracy
400
Country similar to Russia in the ballot system it uses to elect its President
What is France
400
Address by Krushchev detaling the crimes of Stalin
What is the secret speech
500
The principle that legal rules rather than arbitrary and personal decisions determine what happens in a state
What is the rule of law
500
One of the dozen or so oligarchs who rose to a position of prominence and wealth during the 1990s after capitalizing on the privatization of formerly state-owned enterprises
Who is Mikhail Khodorkovsky
500
Party that has taken the strongest stand in support of democracy but also for the retention of some form of welfare state