An abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place.
What is purges?
100
A title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers
What is a tsar?
100
This is a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society.
What is Marxism?
100
This is the exchange of services and goods for political support.
What is Clientelistic Networks or Clientelism?
100
He was the leader after Leonid Brezhnev who used a 3 pronged program to reform Russia who was removed from office because of the 1991 Revolution.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
This, initiated by Gorbachev, placed new emphasis on freedom of speech and press.
What is glasnost?
200
Non-sovereign leaders ranking under the head of state wielding power since the reforms of Peter the Great.
What are governors?
200
A political party in Russia that, while claiming to be centrist, is consider to be far right, with conservative and ultra nationalist leanings. Recently received 11.4% of the vote in Russia.
What is the Liberal Democrats?
200
This is the process of transferring ownership of business and other organizations from the government to the private ownership.
What is Privatization?
200
He is a Russian political leader and economist who, on top of building his own economic theory based on Karl Marx's, led the Bolshevik faction in revolution to overthrow the Russian President and establish the Soviet Union
Who is Lenin?
300
These are standards set by Stalin to achieve ambitious goals of production of heavy industry, such as oil, steel, and electricity within the given time limit.
What are Five Year Plans?
300
A member of a small governing faction that controls the country.
What is an oligarch?
300
The second strongest party in the Duma; not quite like the old Communist party but far less reformist than many other parties today; emphasizes centralized planning and nationalism and implies an intention to regain territories lost with the fall of the Soviet Union.
What is the Communist Party?
300
The process in which businessmen would purchase stock in their own companies in order to take control away from the Government and privatize the company.
What is Insider Privatization?
300
The de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Who is Stalin?
400
This is the form of dividing powers among countries’ substates, where one substate has more independence or power than the others.
What is asymmetrical federalism?
400
This is a leader of an organization, company or country. In the US Government this person serves as the Head of State and Head of Government.
What is a president?
400
A center-left party that seeks liberal reforms of Russian government, especially the complex, exclusionary elective system.
What is the Yabloko?
400
A variant of market reform that involves the state simultaneously imposing a wide range of radical economic changes, with the purpose of "shocking" the economy into a new mode of operation.
What is shock therapy?
400
A Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. He previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He was also previously the Chairman of United Russia.
Who is Putin?
500
A government system in which leaders and lawmakers are elected by the people, but individual freedoms do not exist.
What is an illiberal democracy?
500
A category of people within the Soviet Union and other communist nations who held various key administrative positions in various areas of their countries. Included positions in government, agriculture, industry and education.
What is Nomenklatura?
500
A politically dominant, centrist party that focuses on moderate reform, law, and stability. It is less committed to ideas, and more so committed to prominent figures, such as Vladimir Putin.
What is United Russia Party?
500
This is where citizens are given a book of vouchers that represent potential shares in any state owned company.
What are Privatization vouchers?
500
He is Russia's wealthiest man, arrested in 2003 for fraud and tax evasion. Many believe that his arrest was political motivated in response to his political aspirations and public criticisms of Vladimir Putin and his government.