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RUSSIA Flashcards

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ONE WORD

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STRENGTH

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Strength?

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Values authoritarian leadership, political opponents

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Legitimacy

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Charismatic

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Russia was “Never meant to be”

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-governing over such a big landmass
- landlocked
- never found a working system

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Russian Geography

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  • harsh weather
  • crop failure
  • isolation and ruggedness
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Language Isolation

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  • never really a part of European or Asian language
  • Just eastern language from Europe (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian)
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Caesaropapism

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combining secular (czar) and religious (Russian Orthodox Church) powers

Not really religious BUTTT

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Cultural backwardness

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  • started serfdom late compared to Europe
  • no real education system
  • move toward autocracy
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Marxism FAIL

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Marxism was meant for developed/industrialized countries … Russia was not ready

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Zemstovs

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led Imperial Russia during the Great War since their government sucked, lead to the fall of Imperial Russia

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Soviet

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workers council

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Bolshevik’s and their goals

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  • destroy constitutional illusions
  • break down democracy and political freedom
  • broke down Zemstovs
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Bolshevik’s Settlement

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“socialism in one country”

promote communism in other countries after achieving it themselves

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Differing from Marxism

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  • ran by the elite, NOT the working class
  • crushed peasant movement
  • never actually advocated for the lower class
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1922

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the USSR is established

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Pure Communism

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  • political and economic system of a classless, stateless state
  • social organizations based on communal ownership in production
  • limited private property
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Pure Socialism

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  • economic ideology that allows collective or gov/state ownership
  • gov. owns the means of production and operated them for public benefit
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True Realities of Socialism and Communism

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Communism: is not feasible, cannot have a stateless state, denies hierarchy and human nature

Socialism: feasible because of the political/state apparatus. can be used by many political systems

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Proliteriat

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-factory workers/laborers
-common or poor
-drinks coffee from gas station

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Bourgeoisie

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  • factory owners
  • elite
  • drinks from starbucks
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NOMENLATURA

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soviet policy of appointing key administrative positions in the bureaucracy by the communist party (basically party loyalty and the spoils system - NOT EFFICIENT)

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Glasnost

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  • Gorbachev
  • USSR openness and transparency in gov. activities and information
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Perestroika

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-Gorbachev
-restructuring USSR economy and a little of their politics

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Fall of USSR

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-Late 1991
-gradual; taste of freedom gave way to floodgates of democracy

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Semi-Presidential

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a system of republican gov. governed by an elected president, a PM, and cabinet

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Head of State

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PRESIDENT
- 6 yr terms, 2 terms limits to NEW presidents - LOOPHOLED
- commander in chief, appoints ministers and judges, federal law, powerful
- RF citizen, 35+ y/o, never had foreign citizenship
- lived in RF 25 yrs +

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Vice-President?

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There is no Vice-President

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2020 Presidential Amendments

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  • condemning LGBTQ - “a man and a woman”
  • two term limit only for new presidents (not Putin and the other guy)
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Head of Government

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PRIME MINISTER
- 6 yr term with the President, no term limit
- decided by the president, no set of qualifications
- answers to Prez and State Duma, NOT A MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE

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Cabinet

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  • belongs to PM (but who are we kidding, it is run by the President)
  • 32 ministers including PM
  • not legislators
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The Federal Assembly

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State Duma (lower house) and Federation Council (upper house)

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Federal Subjects

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all of Russia’s republics, krias, oblasts, federal cities, autonomous oblasts, and okrugs

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State Duma

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  • approves Prez’s pick for PM
  • Vote of no confidence on PM (can impeach for 2/3 vote)
  • 21 y/o+, Russian citizen, hold no other office or be civil servant
  • 450 seats, Deputies, 5 yr term
  • ELECTION: 225 directly elected by majority vote, 225 elected by proportional representative vote of party
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Federation Council

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  • more formal, less political (not really political parties with struggles)
  • 30 y/o +, Russian citizen, lived in federal subject for 5 yr+
  • 178 seats, Senators, 5 yr term
  • ELECTION: 2 from each of the Federal Subjects, 1 from Provincial Gov. and confirmed by Legislature
  • Selection > Election
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Putin and Oligarchs

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Used them to gain power and money and then suppressed them and their power

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Putin Tactics

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Uses the Chechen War to stir up nationalism, suppressed wealthy and mafia, censorship, cyber war, “mysterious” deaths and jailing

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Putin Successes

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does make Russia more of a superpower and not to be messed with

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Putin Failures

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  • economic downfall and sanctions
  • isolated
  • pariah country (outcast)
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Illiberal Democracy

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a democracy that is not “free nor fair”, basically a SUS democracy

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