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strong men. support putin. often former kgb. |
sloviken |
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restructuring that took place under gorbachev |
parastroika |
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transparency. under gorbachev |
glastnost |
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shock therapy |
early 90's. switch to market economy |
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chinese civil war |
nationalist vs. communist |
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chinese nationalist |
kmt |
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mandarins |
ancient china. took a test and studiied confucious to get the change to be an administrator. kinda like communist party members today |
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on an essay about political culture in china mention |
mandarins. mandate of heaven the shanghai massacre kmc killed communists guanxi pla sez tienamin square |
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guanxi |
connections. kinda corruption but not reallyl |
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pla |
peoples liberation army |
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sez |
special economic zone |
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dominant party system |
russia |
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the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era |
gulags |
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caesaropapism the idea of combining the power of secular government with the religious power, or making it superior to the spiritual authority of the Church; especially concerning the connection of the Church with government. |
caesaropapism |
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felt that russia should imitate the west |
westernizers |
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felt that russia should develop its own institutions based on its slavic roots and culture |
slavophiles |
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NEP |
stands for new economic plan. lenin
The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined. The complete nationalization of industry, established during the period of War Communism, was partially revoked and a system of mixed economy was introduced, which allowed private individuals to own small enterprises,[1] |
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five year plans |
centralized economic plans under stalin |
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civil society |
a key feature of democracy. russians were adopting it but it was killed in the soviet era. was coming back in the 90's stamped out by putin. |
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someone who held a beaurocratic or political role in russia |
apparatchiki |
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gathering of the delegates of the communist party |
party congress |
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the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century. |
central committee |
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the executive committee for a number of (usually communist) political parties |
politburo |
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was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Soviet Union. |
supreme soviet |
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The official title of the leader of most Communist and Socialist political parties is the. . . gorbachev was one |
general secretary |
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presidium |
a standing executive committee in a communist country. |
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council of ministers |
an executive governmental council that brings together the principal officers of the Executive Branch of the Russian government. |
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nomenklatura |
a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.s |
