Question 1

After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet leadership made which of the following changes?

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A) Use of centralized power was reduced. 
B) Power was taken away from the Politburo. 
C) The nomenklatura lost their authority over the daily life of citizens. 
D) Economic control was taken away from the central planning bureaucracy.

Question 2

What are the recent conflicts between the West and Russia, and why has reconciliation between the West and Russia failed?

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Question 3

The differences in powers between different regions in Russia are referred to as

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A) asymmetric federalism. 
B) asymmetric localism. 
C) devolved federalism. 
D) unitary regionalism.

Question 4

How has the Communist Party developed in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union? How is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation different from other postcommunist parties in Eastern Europe?

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Question 5

What immediately replaced the rule of the last tsar when he was finally forced to step down in 1917?

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A) noncommunist republican leadership 
B) Lenin's Communist state 
C) dictatorship sympathetic to Germany 
D) antiwar prime minster and parliament

Question 6

The term parties of power denotes

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A) parties built by elites to serve their personal political aspirations. 
B) those elites that controlled the Soviet Union until 1991. 
C) nationalist parties in Russia that call for the restoration of the Soviet Union. 
D) parties in Russia that rely on a single ethnic group for support.

Question 7

Which of the following statements about Russia's judiciary and rule of law is accurate?

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A) The public trusts law enforcement agencies but has little faith in government institutions like the presidency or the Duma. 
B) The Russian Supreme Court occupies the top of the Russian legal structure. 
C) The courts in Russia often play an activist role. 
D) Russia is mired in the problem of "legal nihilism," wherein legal codes are not respected.

Question 8

What were the central factors that allowed for the 1917 revolution?

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Question 9

One recent event that raised concerns over Russia's foreign policy was its intervention in

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A) Azerbaijan. 
B) Estonia. 
C) Ukraine. 
D) Bosnia.

Question 10

Under Putin, economic assets have been increasingly concentrated in the hands of the

Accepted Answer

A) European Union. 
B) oligarchs. 
C) Communist Party. 
D) siloviki.

Exam 13: Russia