A belief by powerful groups and the broad citizenry that a state exercises rightful authority.
What is Legitimacy?
100
The lower legislative house in Russia.
What is the Duma?
100
A political party that promotes collective ownership and abandonment of social classes.
What is the Communist Party?
100
Directly elected members of government that can be fired by the President and must come from a pre-approved list.
What are Russian governors?
100
The idea that people in lower levels of government should hold office and debate, but that their policies must align with the decisions of higher governmental levels.
What is democratic centralism?
200
Taking an individual's land for community farmland.
What is collectivization?
200
Far-right political party in the Russian Federation led by the charismatic and controversial Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
What is Liberal Democrat Party of Russia (Liberal Democrats or LDPR)?
200
Term widely used to indicate networks of organized criminal activity that pervade both economic and governmental securities.
What is Mafia?
200
The main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.
What is KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti)?
200
Stalin's plans for incremental economic and agricultural growth.
What are the Five-Year Plans?
300
A governing system in which, 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?
300
A faction of the Russian socialist movement that emerged in 1904 that subscribed to an Orthodox Marxist view of social and economic development.
What is Mensheviks (or Menshevists)?
300
A nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine which was under the direct jurisdiction of the Soviet Union.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
300
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution (1917), head of the revolutionary government (1917-1921), and first head of the USSR (1922-1924)
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
Theoretical foundation of communism based on the ideas of the German philosopher, Karl Marx.
What is Marxism?
400
One or more states has considerably more autonomy than the other sub-states, although they have the same constitutional status.
What is asymmetrical federalism?
400
An international communist organization started in Moscow on 1919.
What is Comintern?
400
Non-governmental organizations and institutions that clearly voices the interests and will of citizens.
What is a civil society?
400
The leader of the Soviet Union during much of the Cold War. Notable for his government reform policies.
What is Gorbachev?
400
A method of privatization where workers are allowed to use vouchers to acquire shares in the enterprises where they worked.
What is insider privatization?
500
The exchange of goods or services for political support, both implicit and explicit support.
What are clientelistic networks?
500
The agency responsible for the planning of economic policy in the Soviet Union.
What is Gosplan?
500
A movement in 1991 by communist government employees to overthrow the reformist Russian president.
What is the coup against Gorbachev?
500
Russian billionaire who was arrested and charged with "fraud" after attempting to gain control of a series of Siberian oil fields without Putin's permission.
Who is Khordokovsky?
500
Gorbachev's reform policy to increase government openness and transparency.