Critical junctures
This person was revolutionary and the first head of government of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
The most significant physical symbol of the national government and also the seat of presidential power
The Kremlin
This term describes a system in which power is divided unevenly between regional bodies.
Asymmetric federalism
Russia’s annexation of this territory has resulted in international sanctions against it and relates to its current war in the region.
Crimea
These two exports responsible for the vast majority of Russia's GDP.
Term used in reference to political liberalization implemented in the USSR in the late 1980s.
glasnost
Russia’s Federal Assembly consists of these two houses.
Duma & Federal Council
This is the main political party in Russia and supporter of Vladimir Putin.
United Russia
A sect of Christianity that is prevalent among Russians and is a source of power for Vladimir Putin's power and pursuit of nationalism.
Russian Orthodox Christianity
This term refers to a process of rapid marketization employed by Boris Yeltsin to move from a command economy to capitalism.
shock therapy
The structure of leadership adopted by the Soviet Union in which a small number of individuals make policies on behalf of the whole.
Vanguardism
Identify one check of presidential power in Russia.
Impeachment
This term refers to Putin's close associates who dominate positions of power in the government and in the economic sector.
siloviki
Identified as “foreign agents” if they accept funding from international sources, these institutions face restrictions that challenge their ability to function in Russia.
non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
These individuals, mostly men, have developed enormous wealth in part because of their proximity to and support of Vladimir Putin
He was the first President of the new Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999.
Boris Yeltsin
This document established the current structure of the Russian state and when it was adopted
1993 Constitution
The hierarchical structure of power that influences how political leaders are developed and promoted.
Democratic centralism
Opposition political leader and former mayor of St. Petersburg who was allegedly poisoned by the FSB and has since been jailed and is in solitary confinement.
Alexei Navalny
Process through which former managers of Russian firms were able to acquire the largest shares of those firms.
insider privatization
Russia brutally fought this wayward republic in the 1990s in order to prevent it from being an independent nation.
Chechnya
chooses/dismisses PM, chooses/dismisses cabinet, appoints leaders to federal districts, proposes/vetoes laws, issues decrees, controls important ministries and armed forces, controls security service
Principle that refers to using the judiciary to target, accuse and jail political opponents.
Legal nihilism
Most Russians identify as members of this ethnic group.
Slavic
As a way to promote capitalism, this plan, which intended to provide Russian citizens with a some ownership of private enterprises, was a failure.