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100
The nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 in Ukraine that resulted in the release of radioactive materials into the surrounding environment.
Chernoby
100
This was the security agency for the Soviet Union from 1951 until 1991. This included the internal security force, intelligence, and secret police.
What is Checka or KGB?
100
This is an emergency government set up when a political void is made because of the collapse of a government
What is a provisional government?
100
How strongly the people feel their current government has the right to rule. This is low in Russia.
What is legitimacy?
200
This was a political movement for reformation in the 1980s in the USSR associated with Mikhail Gorbachev and his openness policy, some believe it was the main reason for the desolution of the USSR.
Perestroika
200
The collective of crime syndicates operating in Russia that follow similar rules and procedures. Most of the groups had their start during the Soviet Union.
Mafia
200
An organized state designed by Lenin to control all aspects of the political system. Discipline and adherence to party dogma is "central" to running the state organization .
What is Democratic centralism?
200
This is an electoral system where seats in the legislature are given to a political party based on percentage of popular vote received
What is proportional representation?
300
Founded by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a liberal and centrist political movement, founded for the purpose of rallying more technocratic-reformist (right-wing) government supporters.
Russia
300
An international communist organization that sought the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the state.
Communist Internation or Comintern?
300
The lower house; 450 deputies selected by proportional representation; passes bills, approves budget, confirms president's appointments
What is the Duma?
300
A state of order in which events conform to the law
What is rule of law?
400
The area, outside the family, in which people commit to in order to further society and common community goals. This includes voluntary and social organizations.
Civil Society?
400
Concept that involves an integrated structure of executive power from the top presidential level down through to the local level.
What is Power Vertical?
400
The first president of the Russian Federation, who served from 1991 to 1999. Attempted to implement radical reforms, such as the use of “Western-style” democracy and liberalization of the market.
Who is Yeltsin?
500
An attempt to overthrow the president at the end of the Soviet Union.
Coup against Gorbachev
500
Faction of Julius Martov’s supporters and members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.
Mensheviks?
500
This was the central state planning commission that became the nerve center for the economy, and determined production and distribution of virtually all goods in the Soviet Union.
What is gosplan?
500
The radical and provocative, albeit charismatic, leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party.
Who is Zhirinovsky?
500
A process undertaken under Stalin in the late 1920s and early 1930s by which agricultural land was removed from private ownership and organized into large state and collective farms.
What is collectivization?
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