Case Study: Russia Flashcards
A small party in the Russian Duma with a social - democratic orientation
A Just Russia
A system in which power is divided unevenly among regional bodies - for example, some regions are given greater power over taxation or language rights than others, a more likely outcome in a country with significant ethnic divisions
Asymmetric Federalism
THERE MOUNTAINS Southwest Russia, near the Black sea and Turkey, where there is a diverse mixture of non - Slavic peoples with distinct language and customs as well as a much stronger historical presence of Islam than Orthodox Christianity
Caucasus
Russian republic that has been a source of military conflict since 1991
Chechnya
Soviet secret police created by Lenin; precursor to the KGB
Cheka
A loosely integrated body that incorporates many former Soviet republics
Commonwealth of Independent States
Successor party in Russia to the communist party in the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Highest body in the Russian legal system; responsible for constitutional review
typically serves the whim of the executive ( President )
Constitutional Court
Lower house of Russian Legislature
President can hold a flash election if he doesn’t like something that they have chosen to do
Duma
Economic and political union among several former Soviet States
Eurasian Economic Union
Successor to the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency to follow the fall of the USSR
Federal Security Service
Upper house of the Russian legislature
Federation Council
Literally “openness”; the policy of political liberalization implemented in the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s
Glasnost
A process in Russia whereby the former Nomenklatura directors of firms were able to acquire the largest number of shares when those firms were privatized
Insider Privatization
Soviet secret police agency charged with domestic and foreign intelligence
KGB
Oligarch arrested and imprisoned for his opposition to the Putin administration
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Eleventh - century fortress in the heart of Moscow that has been the historical seat of Russian state power
Kremlin
Russian Revolutionary who lead the 1917 Russian Revolution and headed the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1924
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Political party in Russia with a nationalist and antidemocratic orientation
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
President of Russia from 2008 to 2012; prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020; current head of the United Russia Party
Dimitry Medvedev
Prime minister of Russia since 2020 successor to Dimitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Political activist who has been detained repeatedly for his opposition to Putin and United Russia
he has recently died in an unexplained way while in what is informally considered a gulag
Alexei Navalny
Politically sensitive or influential jobs in the state, society, or economy that were staffed by people chosen or approved by the Communist Party
Nomenklatura
Russian people noted for their control of large amounts of the Russian economy (including the media), their close ties to the government, and the accusations of corruption surrounding their rise to power
Oligarchs
