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Stalin
Post Stalin Leaders
Communist Institutions
Reform
100
The party that ran the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991
What is the Communist Party
100
Lenin's sucessor...
Who is Joseph Stalin
100
Leader that brought the worst excesses of Stalinism to a halt
Who is Nikita Khrushchev
100
"Rubber stamp" organization of three hundred or so members that ratified decisions made by party elite
What is the Central Committee
100
The selling off of state-owned industries
What is privitization
200
The political party that appears to be in firm control of Russian politics right now and in coming years
What is the United Russia Party (Unity)
200
Plan calling for at least doubling the production of such goods as coal, oil, pig iron, steel, electricity, and cloth between 1928 and 1932
What is the five year plan
200
Former President and current Prime Minister of Russia
Who is Vladimir Putin
200
Acted much like a cabinet in a parliamentary system
What is the Politburo
200
Policy that opened up the political system and allowed for freedom of expression
What is glasnost
300
New political party chaired by former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
What is Our Home Is Russia
300
Party initiated actions to eliminate opportunists and others seen as threats to the state
What are purges
300
Most important of the group of leaders that replaced Krushchev
Who is Leonid Brezhnev
300
List of important positions and people qualified to fill them
What is the nomenklatura
300
Ill-fated program to reform the Soviet economy in the late 1980's
What is perestroika
400
Political party that advocated a more orthodox Marxist approach to Lenin's ideas
What is the Mensheviks
400
The Central State Planning Commission
What is the Gosplan
400
Obvious sucessor after no leaders from the Brezhnev generation were left
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
400
The first Russian secret police
What is the Cheka
400
Policy that envisions as rapid a shift to a market economy as possible
What is Shock Therapy
500
The neofascist and racist opposition party led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky
What is the Liberal Democrats
500
Agency that spearheaded foreign policy and whose course Stalin reversed after it failed to be effective under Lenin
What is the Comintern
500
Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
Who is Vladimir Zhirinovsky
500
25 members with about 1,500 staff members that oversaw the work of the entire party apparatus
What is the Secritariat
500
Predecessor to Putin whose administration failed to cope with the Russian transition to democracy
Who is Boris Yeltsin