Marxist Theory
Text written by Lenin in which he redefines the approach to proletarian revolution
What is What is to be Done?
The Westernizing Tsar
Who is Peter the Great?
Announced Khrushchev's intention to dismantle Stalin's Cult of Personality
What is the Secret Speech?
The Russian Federal structure has this many layers
What is 3?
The 'Party of Power' in Russia
What is United Russia?
A small group of professional revolutionaries who will overthrow the state and bring about the dictatorship of the proletariat
What is the Vanguard Party?
Tsar who defeated Napoleon and brought about Russian hegemony over Europe
Who is Alexander I?
Rule by old men characterization of Brezhnev's time as General Secretary
What is Gerontocracy?
The Head of Government of Russia
Who is the Prime Minister?
This hyper-nationalist party supports Putin's power and supports Russia taking a more aggressively imperialist stance internationally
What is the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia?
A program of state directed forced industrial development intended to bring about the industrial conditions necessary for Communism
What is the Five Year Plan?
A rebellion by dissatisfied reform-minded officers and soldiers to establish a constitution for Russia and place Constantine on the Imperial Throne
What is the Decembrist Revolt?
This organization facilitates coordination between civil society, unions, private enterprise, and the State
What is the All-Russia People's Front?
Basic principle according to which Russians regard government as legitimate when it is held by an individual they believe to be competent to protect, guide, and govern the nation
What is Samoderzhavnost/Autocracy?
Decision making and leadership approach of a Marxist-Leninist party in which decisions are made collectively, but strictly and universally obeyed
What is Democratic Centralism?
During the Russian Civil War, this economic policy led to wide-spread famine throughout the new Soviet State
What is War Communism/Grain Requisitioning?
The Yeltsin Constitution (1993) gave this institution of government the leading role in Russian politics
What is the Presidency?
The Putin Constitution (2020) made these changes
What are the abolition of term limits/provision for traditional marriage/enshrinement of belief in God?
This type of party, while formally opposed to the governing party, cooperates with the Kremlin on many major issues
Mode of Socio-Economic analysis positing that social reality is fundamentally derived from basic material conditions and that all history is driven by class struggle resulting from those conditions
What is Dialectical Materialism/Historical Materialism
Soviet state response to grain hording and other agricultural difficulties
What is Collectivization?
Guiding philosophy of Putin's transformation of Russia
What is State First Pragmatism?
This institution of the judiciary has the power of judicial review of federal law
What is the Constitutional Court?
The sudden liberalization process carried out by Yeltsin in the early 1990s
What is Shock Therapy?