The Russian oligarchs who financed Boris Yeltsin's reelection in 1996 became wealthy by
a. entrepreneurship in producing software for overseas clients.
b. acquiring former state enterprises at bargain-basement prices.
c. extorting protection money from Russian and foreign businesses.
d. foreign investments, particularly in China.
e. taking over private businesses seized by the government.
b
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A. It featured songs with both earthly and heavenly applications. B. It was expressed in secret meetings beyond white supervision. C. It was central to the culture of most slave communities. D. It remained largely unaffected by Christianity until the 1860s.
The financial burden of the Hundred Years' War fell mostly on the __________.
A. clergy B. nobility C. military D. peasants
During the debate over the Missouri Compromise, southern politicians argued that free blacks were not citizens, partially due to the fact that many free states did not __________
a) allow free blacks to vote b) have the power to define citizenship c) return escaped slaves to their masters d) allow new residents to become citizens for many years
Bentham's student John Stuart Mill argued that
a. the utilitarian argument was essentially correct but irrelevant. b. the rights of the individual should always be greater than the group. c. individuals owed society a return for the benefits they enjoyed from living within their states. d. only strong individuals could solve society's problems.