Comparing Governments: United Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Federation

Kalle 1
The days of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev may be long past but the ghosts of the old Soviet Union still linger in the new Russian Federation. I picked to compare the former united Soviet Socialist Republic with the Russian Federation. My reasoning behind this is that I hope to eliminate certain variables that could have lead to different outcomes than those that emerge throughout Russia's history. The variables I'm speaking of are cultural, ethnic, geological formations, etc. These variables can influence people in the ways that they interact with others and that relationship dictates policy on governing the people.
With a land mass of 6,595,600 square miles Russia is the largest country of the world. With that much land a strong government is used to administer over the Russian people. The current head of state, Vladimir Putin, came to power in 2000 and the head of the government , Mikhail Fradkov, came to power in 2004. As a fledgling democracy the Russian Federation is having serious growing pains in neighboring and subject states such as Uzbekistan, Chechnya and the Ukraine. With multiple parties and many voices screaming to be heard problems persist. A number of parties are as follows:
Russia is Our Home, centrist; Party of Unity and Accord (PRUA), moderate reformist; Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), left wing, conservative (ex-communist); Agrarian Party, rural-based, centrist; Liberal Democratic Party, far right, ultranationalist; Congress of Russian Communities, populist, nationalist; Russia's Choice, reformist, right of centre; Yabloko, gradualist free market; Russian Social Democratic People's Party (Derzhava), communist-nationalist; Patriotic Popular Union of Russia (PPUR), communist-led; Russian People's Republican Party (RPRP) ( tiscali.com, Russian Federation)
Kalle 2
In the past there was a single party in Russia, the Communist party. While this allowed for relative control of the country oppression and human rights...