Ch 6 - Russia
key terms from Ch 6 of O'Neil's "Cases in Comparative Politics," considering Russia.
Terms
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- perestroika
- economic restructuring, advocated by Gorbachev
- czar
- single Russian emperor who exercised sovereignty over the nation's lands and aristocrats
- glasnost
- political openness, advocated by Gorbachev
- KGB
- later body controlling domestic dissent and supervising overseas surveillance
- Orthodox Christianity
- Developing distinctly from Roman Catholicism but, unlike Roman Catholicism, not drawing a distinct line between political and religious authority, an idea which may have stunted the idea of a society functioning independent of the state.
- Rus
- Russia, deviating either from the Finnish word for the Swedes, "Ruotsi" mean "rowers," or from a tribal or geographic origin that can be traced to the native Slav inhabitants.
- Boris Yeltsin
- early protege of Gorbachev's who later eclipsed Gorbachev's popularity and became president of a new, independent Russia in December 1991
- Cheka
- first secret-police force in USSR
- soviets
- workers' councils, the proletariat
- nomenklatura
- politically influential jobs in the state, society, or economy staffed by Communist Party appointees (co-optation?)
- Duma
- legislature created by Nicholas II