Although his ideas about the stages of history were influential in Russia, this person was not Russian.
Who is Karl Marx?
100
This party was in power in the UK when the USSR dissolved.
What is the Conservative Party?
100
The term of this office was recently extended from four to six years.
What is the presidency?
100
Before 1991, this was the party system that existed.
What is one party?
100
Since the fall of the USSR, rates of this disease have risen due to increased drug use and trafficking and increased prostitution.
What is HIV/AIDS?
200
This leader established the key characteristics of the USSR that endured until 1991.
Who is Stalin?
200
The last half of Thatcher's time as prime minister coincided with this man's leadership of the CPSU and the USSR.
Who is Gorbachev?
200
This is the portion of the federal assembly which is directly elected by the Russian people.
What is the State Duma?
200
This is the method by which members of the state Duma are elected.
What is proportional representation?
200
Since 2006, the state has offered this to women as an incentive to have a second child.
What is child support?
300
This oligarch has been living in exile in the UK for much of the Putin era.
Who is Boris Berezovsky?
300
This British politician's time as prime minister overlapped with the last years of Yeltsin's term as president and the first years of Putin's presidency.
Who is Tony Blair?
300
This was the year that the Russian constitution was put into effect.
What is 1993?
300
These are the years of the last two Duma elections.
What are 2007 and 2011?
300
This religion dominates among Russians.
What is the Russian Orthodox church?
400
This journalist covered the Russia's "dirty war" until her assassination in 2006.
Who is Anna Politkovskaya?
400
The Soviet period of economic crisis was primarily in this decade whereas for the UK it was primarily in during this decade.
What are the eighties and the seventies?
400
This is the term that describes how power is distributed within the Russian state.
What is federalism?
400
This party did not exist officially until 2003.
What is United Russia?
400
This is what "Nashi" translates into in English.
What is "ours?"
500
This intellectual and activist initiated the ideas of a vanguard party and democratic centralism.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
500
Dmitry Medvedev's time as president overlapped with these UK prime ministers.
Who are Gordon Brown and David Cameron?
500
This is the name for Putin's policies that created a more unified structure of executive power over regional and local governments to keep them in line.
What is power vertical?
500
This party has won a sizable minority of the popular vote since the mid 1990s.
What is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation?
500
Since 2006, laws regarding these organizations have become more restrictive.