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| business and political leaders with what some thing is undue influence in Russia |
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| the most important departments in the Russian government |
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| the selling off of state owned companies |
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| the systematic removal of people from party, state, or other office, especially common in communist systems |
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| General Secretary of the CPSU from 1964-1982, largely responsible for the stagnation of the USSR |
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| head of the CPSU and last president of the Soviet Union |
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| successor of Josef Stalin as head of the CPSU and Soviet Union from 1953 until he was ousted in 1964 |
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| architect of the Bolshevik revolution and first leader of the Soviet Union |
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| President of Russia, since 2000 |
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| leader of the CPSU and the Soviet Union 1924-1953 |
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| former reformist communist leader and president of Russia 1991-2000 |
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| supposedly the most important body in a Communist party; it's influenced declined as it grew in size and the party needed daily leadership |
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| Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) |
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| the new incarnation of the CPSU for Russia |
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| Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) |
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| the party that ran the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 |
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| one of the leading opposition parties in Russia in the 1999 Duma elections |
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| the largely powerless upper house of the Russian parliament |
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| in the former Soviet Union and other Communist countries, the period for which Gosplan developed goals and quotas |
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| the Soviet central planning agency |
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| members of the neofascist and racist opposition party led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
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| the smaller and more moderate faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party before WWI |
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| generic term used to describe the leadership temporary governments, formed until a new constitution is written; also, the government in Russia between the two 1917 revolutions |
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| given b khrushchev in 1957; seen as the start of the "thaw" |
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| the lower house of the Russian parliament |
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| occasion of Khrushchev's "secret speech" launching de-Stalinization |
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| created by a group of reformists who were more comitted to promarket policies than Yablocko |
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| the political party led by Russian president Vladmir Putin |
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| one of the leading reformist parties in Russia |
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| leader of the right wing and racist Liberal Democratic party in Russia |
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