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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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| The Leninist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite. |
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| Under Gorbachev, Soviet policies that opened up the political system and allowed for freedom of expression. |
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| Russia term to describe the other fourteen republics of the former Soviet Union. |
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| The Soviet system of lists that facilitated the CPSU’s appointment of trusted people to key positions. Adopted by other communist regimes. |
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| Business and political leaders with what some think is undue influence in Russia. |
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| Ill-fated program to reform the Soviet economy in the late 1980s. |
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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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| Policies in formerly communist countries that envisage as rapid a shift to a market economy as possible. |
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| A shot of a person’s face talking directly to the camera. |
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| An intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
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