“Russia and the role of the state”

Even after their ideological struggle, Russia had become one of the world’s largest constitutionally-socialist dominating powers. Russia alike many states, is lead by a president who has authoritative rule over the whole state. He, himself has the power of leading the pluriform multi-party system which was exercised by the central government. As we all know from history, Russia has been recognized as its own state for a fair amount of time. Even under Stalin’s communist regime, Russia had the ability to influence its surrounding countries and to control the outcome of specific events. During the period of the Cold War, Containment was their main ideology which allowed inequality and increased rivalry amongst different countries. Since the period of the Cold War, USSR used “compellence” (forced power) against their rivalries in order to gain political support and increase expansion. This created a disruption in their state in that it didn’t gain national security. Although even under dictatorial rule, Russia attained her tangible source of power with the help of her dominating power in natural recourses, geographical size and enormous population.

 However after the collapse in communism (1991) Boris Yeltsin agreed to follow the idea of “deterrence” in order to prevent aggressive action against surrounding states. (This in the past was the reason for their conflicts.) The idea of deterrence was positive in that it allowed stability and peace amongst the people of the state. This idea reflected upon the realist notion that “the state act independently of their society” and that the person in power does have an affect on the outcomes of events throughout history. By exercising a new approach of their ideology, the state was in unity as it shared sovereignty among neighboring countries.