How authoritarian is Russia? Analysis of the form of rule from Lenin until Putin

Essay from the year 2022 in the subject Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 3,0, University of Passau (Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politik), course: Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes in a Globalised World, language: English, abstract: Russia has always been a country shaped by authoritarian to totalitarian power structures during its history. Already under the rule of Tsar Nicholas II....