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Term for Leninist structure concentrating power in party elite?

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Democratic centralism

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Policies by Gorbachev that opened the political system and allowed freedom of expression.

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Perestroika

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Systematic removal of people from office, common in communist systems.

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Purge

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General Secretary of the CPSU (1964-1982) responsible for USSR stagnation.

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Prime Minister of Russia (1993-1998)

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Viktor Chernomyrdin

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President of Russia from 2000 to 2008, known for consolidating power and suppressing revolts.

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Vladimir Putin

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Soviet Union's first secret police?

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Cheka

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Political party in Russia chaired by former PM Viktor Chernomyrdin?

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Our Home Is Russia

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Term for when the government controls the economy?

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Command economy

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Government controls citizens completely.

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Totalitarian state