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RUSSIA
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INDEX
01 Lenin
02 Stalin
03 Gorbachev
04 Putin
05 Political System
06 Legal System
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
Pluralist democracy
- Presidential system
¨ç Administration- dual executive system
¨è Congress- State Duma (lower camber)+
federal council (upper house)
¨é Judiciary- prosecution > judge
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Lenin
Russian revolutionary & communist
The founder & the guiding spirit of the Soviet Republics
Real force : the proletariat
? workers, soldiers and peasants.
Land to peasantry, workers¡¯ control at the factories, and eviction of entrepreneurs from factories.
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Lenin
October Revolution
(Bolsheviks Revolution)
- Czar system -> Socialism system
- The Soviet Union has been establis¡¦(»ý·«)
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illion people were sacrificed
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Stalin
3. Deportations
During and immediately after World War II(1941~1949)- Profoundly affected the ethnic map- Nearly 3.3 million people Siberia and the Central Asian republics- Up to 43% of the resettled population died
REASON : Separatism / resistance to Soviet rule / collaboration with the invading Germans
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Gorbachev
signed the Immediate Nuclear Forces (INF) abolition treaty in 1987
announced the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
attempts to make the Soviet Union a more democratic country
However, with the Soviet Union disintegrating into separate states, Gorbachev resigned from office
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Gorbachev
Perestroika
a political movement
Within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Meaning "openness"
Perestroika allowed