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| 63833788 | Democratic Centralism | the Lenist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite | |
| 63833789 | Glasnost | Under gorbachev, Soviet policies that opened up the pol system and allowed for freedom of expression | |
| 63833790 | Near abroad | Russian term to describe the other 14 republics of the former SU | |
| 63833791 | Nomenklatura | The Sov system of lists that facilitated the CPSU's appointment og trusted people to key positions. Adopted by other communist regimes | |
| 63833792 | Oligarch | Business and political leaders with what some think is undue influence in Russia | |
| 63833793 | Perestroika | Ill-fated program to reform the SU con in late 80s | |
| 63833794 | Power Ministries | the most important departments in the Russian gov | |
| 63833795 | privatization | the selling off of state-owned companies | |
| 63833796 | purges | the systematic removal of people from party, state, or other office; common in com govs | |
| 63833797 | shock therapy | policies in formerly communist countries that envisage as rapid a shift to market econ as possible | |
| 63833798 | KGB | Soviet secret police | |
| 63833799 | Bolsheviks | Lenin's faction of the Russian Social Dem party; came to mean anyone subscribed to his views/org | |
| 63833800 | Central Committee | Supposedly the most important body in the com party; influence declined with need of daily leadership/size growth | |
| 63833801 | Cheka | The SU's first secret police | |
| 63833802 | Cominterm | Interwar coalition of com parties directed from Moscow | |
| 63833803 | Communist party of the Russian Federation | The new incarnation of the CPSU for Russia | |
| 63833804 | Soviet Union | The party that ran the SU until its collapse in 1991 | |
| 63833805 | Fatherland-All Russia | A leading opposition party in Russia in the 1999 Duma elections | |
| 63833806 | Federation Council | Largely powerless upper house of Russian parliament | |
| 63833807 | Five year plan | in former SU, period for which gosplan developed goals and quotas | |
| 63833808 | Gosplan | SU central planning agency | |
| 63833809 | Liberal Dems | neofacsist and racist party led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky | |
| 63833810 | Mensheviks | Smaller and more moderate faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party before WWI | |
| 63833811 | Our Home is Russia | new political party chaired by former prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin | |
| 63833812 | Politburo | Generic term used to describe the leadership of the communist parties | |
| 63833813 | Provisional Government | generic term used to describe temporary governments formed until the new constitution is written; Russian gov between the two 1917 revs | |
| 63833814 | Russian Federation | Formal name of Russia | |
| 63833815 | Secret Speech | Given by Khruschev in 1957 | |
| 63833816 | Secretariat | Generic term used to denote the bureaucratic leaders of the com party | |
| 63833817 | State Duma | lower house in Russian Parliament | |
| 63833818 | Third International | Moscow-dominated organization of com parties around the world between world wars | |
| 63833819 | 20th party congress | Occasion of Khrushchev's secret speech | |
| 63833820 | United Russia | Party led by Russian prez Vladimir Putin | |
| 63833821 | Yabloko | One of the leading reformist parties in Russia |
