Russian Quizziz Quiz

What is the term for the Leninist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite?

• Democratic centralism

• Glasnost

• Nomenklatura

• Oligarch

What is the term for the policies under Gorbachov that opened up the political system and allowed for freedom of expression?

• Perestroika

• Privatization

• Purge

• Shock therapy

What is the term for the systematic removal of people from party, state, or other office, especially common in communist systems?

• Purge

• Glasnost

• Oligarch

• Perestroika

Who was the General Secretary of the CPSU from 1964 until 1982, largely responsible for the stagnation of the USSR?

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Viktor Chernomyrdin

• Yegor Gaidar

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Who was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1993 to 1998?

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Viktor Chernomyrdin

• Yegor Gaidar

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Who was the President of Russia from 2000 to 2008, known for consolidating power and crushing any revolution against him?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Vladimir Putin

• Joseph Stalin

• Boris Yeltsin

What is the term for the Soviet Union's first secret police?

• Cheka

• KGB

• FSB

• Koni

Which political party in Russia was chaired by former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin?

• Fatherland-All Russia

• Our Home Is Russia

• United Russia

• Yabloko

What is the term for the situation in which the government makes all the decisions regarding the economy?

• Command economy

• Totalitarian state

• Rule of law

• Asymmetrical federation

What is the term for the situation in which government controls the lives of its citizens completely?

• Command economy

• Totalitarian state

• Rule of law

• Asymmetrical federation