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Putin idea, and traditional Russian value of limiting individualism in favor of national interests.
What is statism?
Russia's national cleavages are heavily based on this kind of difference between people.
What are ethnic cleavages?
Catherine the Great and Peter the Great are examples of this, otherwise known as absolute monarchs who wake up and reform the country to new ideas.
What are enlightened despots?
Compared to Great Britain, Russian civil society can be described as...
What is less inclusive and developed?
Soviet process of selecting elite recruits for government.
What is nomenklatura?
In comparison to elections in the 90's , elections in the 2000's and 2010's under Putin can be generally described as this.
What is less competitive?
In Russia, their religious cleavage is largely based on the rapid rise of population of this religious group.
What are Muslims?
Mikhail Gorbachev's 3 main goals for reforming Russia.
What is democratization, perestroika, and glasnost?
This policy otherwise known as "openness" allowed Russians to express their political beliefs and criticisms of the government publicly.
What is glasnost?
Since the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has been officially categorized as this form of government where a strong central government is brakes up responsibility into different parts.
What is a federation?
Putin's strategy of manipulating democratic processes and the constitution to increase the power of his government, is defined as...
What is soft-authoritarianism?
Divisions between the oligarch elites and the working people is also called this kind of cleavage.
What is a social class cleavage?
This person was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, and leader of the Russian Communist Party.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Since the establishment of this public policy under Gorbachev, the Russian economy as become increasingly privatized.
What is perestroika?
Since 2007, the Duma has only been elected through this form of voting.
What is proportional representation?
Under this system, Putin has a tight control of politics in Russia via his reign as the leader of the United Russia party.
What is a dominant party system?
Most of Russia's wealth is held by people who live in these kinds of heavily populated areas?
What are cities? Or urban areas?
Shock therapy was a shift to more western-democratic ideals by this leader after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
In order to limit criticism from the people, Russian media has become almost completely controlled by...
What is the central government?
Govt. structure that Yeltsin tried to put in place through the 1993 constitution.
What is a Western-Style Federal Democracy?
Under Putin, presidential term limits have changed in this way.
Which of the following is not a major cleavage Russia?
- Social Class
- Ethnicity
- Rural/Urban
- Language
What is language?
This leader took over Russia during WWII, and initiated purges, collective farms, and strict authoritarian suppression of public opinion.
Who is Stalin?
These courts deal with public policy issues related to business, and finance.
What is the commercial courts?
Between Great Britain and Russia, the people of this country trust their govt. more, albeit not much either.
What is Russia?