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5. Political systems/ structure Economy Citizens, Society, political socialization Intro, history, geography Political Institutions 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Public Policy

6. A law allows the president to remove these from office if they fail to subject local law to the national constitution.

7. What are governors?

8. Literally translating to “rule of the few” this rule by a small elite group characterized Russian government for many years.

9. What is an oligarchy?

10. The Russion patronage system in which leaders are recruited from lower levels within the party.

11. What is nomenclatura?

12. A system of federalism, seen in Russia, in which power is devolved unequally across regions, and some hold much more power than others.

13. What is asymmetric federalism?

14. The system of political organization in which the state chooses which groups have input into policymaking. Grew under Putin.

15. What is state corporatism?

16. These 3 natural resources make up the bulk of Russia’s exports.

17. What are oil, gas, and timber?

18. Boris Yeltsin’s policy of rapid privatization in the attempt to abruptly embrace a free market economy, (which instead left the economy in chaos).

19. What is “Shock therapy”?

20. The process of selling state owned companies to private interests.

21. What is Privatization?

22. This word, meaning “restructuring” refers to Gorbachev’s attempts at economic and political reform combining market economy with centralized state ownership.

23. What is perestroika?

24. A situation in which the government has complete power and control over the economy.

25. What is a command economy?

26. The policy of “openness” instated by Gorbachev encouraging transparency and open criticism of government.

27. What is glasnost?

28. Plans enacted by Stalin, and in other communist countries like China, in which economic goals and quotas were central to policy.

29. What is a 5-year plan?

30. Most policy propositions are begun in this house of the legislature, though the Federation council can revise and approve them.

31. What is the State Duma?

32. This is the name given to the policy attempts the get rid of Stalin’s influence through decentralization and other reforms.

33. What is deStalinization?

34. The move towards democratic ideals and emphasis on the development of civil society made by Gorbachev and which marks the transition from communism in Mexico and Nigeria as well.

35. What is Democritization?

36. The communist egalitarian goals have instilled in the people a desire for this, rather than the more Western “equality of opportunity”

37. What is equality of results?

38. Private organizations and interest groups are largely underdeveloped in Russia, causing this to be underdeveloped and a consequent lack in participation.

39. What is civil society?

40. The term for the active role taken by the state in the lives of citizens, still expected by Russians despite their low trust in government.

41. What is statism?

42. This linkage institution, once censored totally by government, now has much more freedom.

43. What is the Russian media?

44. The Russian pro- democracy, reformist party which garners the votes of many intellectual reformists.

45. What is Yabloko?

46. Much of Russia’s supply of rich natural resources is locked in this frozen expanse.

47. What is Siberia?

48. They served as the official head of the Eastern Orthodox Church and were seen as autocratic political and religious leaders.

49. Who are the tsars?

50. The Communist who argued that a "vangaurd" leadership group must lead the revolution proposed by Marx in the name of the people.

51. Who is Vladimir Lenin?

52. The primarily Muslim nation which has long fought with Russia for its independence and autonomy.

53. What is Chechnya?

54. The single most important cleavage which exists within the heterogeneous Russian Federation.

55. What is nationality/ethnicity?

56. The method of mixed representation for the election of the Duma, of the Russian legislature consisted of half proportional representation and half this prior to 2007

57. What is single- member district plurality/first-past- the post?

58. The Duma, of the Russian Legislature, is of this dual structure.

59. What is bicameral?

60. The three types of elections held in Russia.

61. What are referendums, Duma elections and Presidential elections?

62. The Pro-Putin Party that received almost half of the seats in the Duma in the 2004 elections.

63. What is United Russia?

64. This official appoints the prime minister and the cabinet and has the power to dissolve the Duma.

65. Who is the Russian President?

66. Make your wager

67. Final Answer

68. Final Question