AP Comp Gov: Russia

According to Karl Marx, the economic system of capitalism supports

• economic and political equality
• positive individual efforts and ambitions
• an industrial, but not agricultural, economy
• business owners at the expense of workers

In communist societies, nomenklatura is a process followed for

• allocation of economic goods
• determination of the structure of the court system
• recruitment of elites
• military intervention

Peter the Great and Catherine the Great changed Russia by introducing and promoting

• authoritarian rule
• totalitarianism
• westernization
• Slavic traditions

Which of the following types of natural resources does Russia lack

• oil
• timber
• warm water ports
• fertile soil

In contrast to most western nations, Russia has a stronger tradition of 

• civil society
• statism
• individualism
• separation of church an state

In contrast to Britain, Russia had almost always had difficulty with

• centralizing power
• gradual ordered change
• clashes between nationalities within its borders
• getting citizens to the polls to vote

Which of the following accurately compares Russian tsars to English monarchs

• both types of rulers wielded absolute power until the end of the 19th century
• Most English monarchs had more power over their subjects than Russian tsars did
• English monarchs were generally more conservative than Russian tsars were
• Whereas a constitutional monarch developed in England, absolutism remained firmly in place in Russia

The Politburo, collective farms, Five Year Plans, and Gosplan were all put in place by

• Stalin
• Lenin
• Krushchev
• Gorbachev

The Revolution of 1991 resulted in the

• creation of the USSR
• creation of the first Russian legislature
• collapse of the USSR
• Russian takeover of Eastern Europe

The organization of the Russian Federation into "autonomous regions", republics, and provinces is based most directly on

• geographic features
• economic differences
• religion
• ethnicity