RUSSIA. USSR From Tsarist Rule Communist Revolution in 1917 Superpower Democratic Revolution in...

RUSSIA

USSRFrom Tsarist Rule…Communist Revolution in 1917SuperpowerDemocratic Revolution in 1991…To Russian Federation

HYBRID SYSTEMOligarchy = small group of advisorsReal Democracy = struggle over freedomsIlliberal Democracy = on paper but not freeAutocratic = deference to authorityStatism = strong state protects form outsideWhich one?

PEOPLE AND PLACEGeographyChangeLarge

TraditionStatistOrthodoxyEquality

CHANGEGovernmentAutocratic TsarsTotalitarian CommunismDemocratic Oligarchy InstitutionsDemocratic CentralismNomenklaturaPolitburo

EconomicNew Economic PolicyCollectivizationGosplanReformsGlastnostDemocratizationPerestoika

CITIZENS AND THE STATE

ContradictionsSupport idea of democracy

Desire more freedom…but…

Like strong government

Want powerful leaders

CleavagesNationalityReligionSocial ClassUrban/Rural

Attitudes Mistrust Gov.

and

Statist Econ Transition

and

Westernization

PARTICIPATION100% voting rateChoose within PartyUndeveloped Civil SocietyState CorporatismNashi

PARTIESWeak structuresShort lifespanPersonalisticLimited powerNot Ideological

United RussiaCommunist PartyLiberal DemocratsA Just Russia“Parties of Power”

CORPORATISMTop Oligarchs

Own 50% of GNP“Insider Privatization”

Russian Mafiaprotection moneycorruption

MediaPravda

INSTITUTIONSSemi-PresidentialPresidentPrime MinisterBureaucrats

BicameralFederation Council

Duma

CourtsConstitutionalSupremeKGBReinforce State Authority

MilitaryLoyal to Government

POLICY AND ISSUESEconomy wavering into marketization and too oil dependent

Foreign Policy dealing with Confederation of Independent States and the West

Recentralization of Power under Putin and in the Kremlin

Development of Civil Society against History of Statism

TerrorismLoss of Population

VIDEOS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/putins-way/ https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P7mOPKiKz8&list=PLhuA9d7RIOdaixGF11t91dOEXf1N2q-oL x 8 in Russian with subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUA_1WVM8I part 1 in English