Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Russian Vocabulary

1. democratic centralism (party elites decide policies)
2. collectivization
3. glastnost
4. soft authoritarianism
5. market reform
6. privatization voucher
7. mafia
8. oligarchs (can be considered civil society due to great influence in elections and policy making)
9. pyramid debt
10. politburo (top policy making group, 12 men)
11. nomenklatura
12. secretariat
13. power vertical (hierarchy)
14. asymmetrical federalism
15. civil society
16. federal system
17. perestroika
18. shock therapy (yeltsin, free-market reforms followed by political reforms)
19. duma (elections 93' 95' 99' 03' 07' 11') (changes to PR, threshold)
20 federation council (appointed by Putin, state governors dismissed)
21. Boris Yeltsin
22 Mikhail Gorbachev
23. Yukos oil
24. Mikhail Khordovsky (oligarch jailed for announcing opposition candidacy for president)
25. illiberal democracy
26. Russian egalitarianism (equality of result) (contrast to western equality of opportunity)
27. Constitution of 1993
28. referendum (on presidency and constitution; chechnya)
29. cleavages (nationality, religion, social class, urban/rural
30. United russia (not ideological, pro-Putin (PRI))
31. The Communist Party (CPRF) (central planning, nationalism, regaining of territories)
32. Liberal Democrats (extreme nationalism, anti-Semitic leader, sexist)
33. Fair Russia
34. Yabloko (reformist, pro-democratic)
35. Union of Right Forces (reformist, free market, privatization)
36. Chechnya (referendum of 93')

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