AP Comparative Politics Russia Unit Assessment

Which of the following was an ideology that was most influential in shaping the political system during the earliest days of the Soviet Union?

• state corporatism
• democratic centralism
• liberalism
• Stalinism

This system of government's ultimate goal was to create a state-less system... People served the needs of one another. Government is only necessary at its inception so as to transition to a more 'utopian', collectivist ideal.

• conservatism

• liberalism

• fascism

• Marxism

Which of the following is the best description of the type of political system out in place by the Russian Constitution of 1993?

• a semi-presidential system

• a parliamentary system

• a socialist market system

• a direct democracy

Which Russian tradition most directly opposes the development of a civil society in Russia today?

• protection of cultural heterogeneity

• nomenklatura

• statism

• collectivization

Most Russian cities are located in the

• North 
• South
• East
• West

This policy was set up by Gorbachev to encourage citizens of the Soviet Union to be open about their opinions.

• Glasnost
• Open Court
• Open Door
• Russification

Which religion is part of Russian culture?

• Pentacostal
• Orthodox Christianity

• Judaism
• Islam

This Soviet leader allowed more social and political freedoms. 

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Catherine the Great
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Josef Stalin

What Cold War policy allowed a little bit of capitalism in to the USSR?

• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Detente
• Cheka

Putin's authority is derived, in part, by both the Constitution and by the dominance of the United Russia party, the Oligarch's corruption, as well as a fear of authority. This is an example of...

• Dictatorship

• Soft Authoritarianism

• Insider Privatization

• Democracy