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21 Cards in this Set
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liberal democracy
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combines tolerance and freedoms with mass participation
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oligarchy
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rule by a few
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kleptocracy
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rule by thieves
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nationalism
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belief in a greatness and unity of one's country and rejection of rule by foreigners
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rump state
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leftover portions of a country after dismemberment
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glasnost
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Gorbachev's policy of media openness
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Gulag
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The Soviet central prisons administration
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opportunists
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unprincipled person out for self-gain
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civil society
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everything bigger than the family but smaller than the gov't; churches, businesses, associations, and the pluralistic values that come with them
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socialize
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to teach political culture, often informally
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Caucasus
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mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas
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Central Asia
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region between Caspian Sea and China
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totalitarianism
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attempts to totally control society, as under Stalin and Hitler
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authoritarianism
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dictatorial rejection of democracy, as Spain under Franco and Chile under Pinochet
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shock therapy
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sudden replacement of socialism by market economy
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cult of personality
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dictator who has himself worshipped
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red-brown
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a possible combination of Communists and Fascists, the brown standing for Hitler's brownshirts
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perestroika
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Russian for "restructuring", Gorbachev's proposals to reform the Soviet economy
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runaway system
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influential people use their powers to amass more power
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mafia
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a criminal conspiracy
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reify
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from the Latin res, thing; to take a theory as reality
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