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communication
communication transfer of information, such as thoughts and messages, as contrasted with transportation, the transfer of goods and persons (see information theory ). The basic forms of communication are by signs (sight) and by sounds (hearing; see language ). The reduction of communication to wri... Read more
commune
commune , in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune in municipal government, the term is also used to denote a town itself to which a charter of liberties was granted by the sovereign ... Read more
communism
communism fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both communist, although the former wa... Read more
communication theory
communication theory see information theory . ... Read more
community college
community college public institution of higher education. Community colleges are characterized by a two-year curriculum that leads to either the associate degree or transfer to a four-year college. The transfer program parallels the first two years of a four-year college. The degree program general... Read more
communications satellite
communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to earth. Later satellites carried with ... Read more
French Community
French Community established in 1958 by the constitution of the Fifth French Republic to replace the French Union . Its members consisted of the French Republic, which included metropolitan France (continental France, Corsica, Algeria and the Sahara), the overseas territories (Comoro Islands, Fren... Read more
data communications
data communications application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers . In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. Telephone circuits are often used to... Read more
Commune of Paris
Commune of Paris insurrectionary governments in Paris formed during (1792) the French Revolution and at the end (1871) of the Franco-Prussian War . In the French Revolution, the Revolutionary commune, representing urban workers, tradespeople, and radical bourgeois, engineered the storming of the... Read more
Community of Christ
Community of Christ formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, religious group that regards itself as the successor of the church founded by Joseph Smith . They organized in 1852, five years after Mormons under Brigham Young began settling in Utah, formally becomin... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "communism"

Communism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Communism Communism, simply put, is a socioeconomic political doctrine that advocates...ownership and control of property and all means of production. The term communism , however, means different things to differently situated people and...
Communism, Primitive
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Communism, Primitive Primitive communism is the earliest mode of production in Marxist thought. Karl...Also, the changes in the mode of production from primitive communism through slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and socialism to...
communism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition communism fundamentally, a system of social organization...organized empire. In modern usage, the term Communism (written with a capital C ) is applied...successful Communist revolution in Russia. Communism, in this sense, is to be distinguished...
War Communism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History WAR COMMUNISM The Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia...October 1917. Historians use the term war communism for the economic system of Soviet Russia...described the system as "that peculiar war communism, forced on us by extreme want, ruin...
Communism in the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa COMMUNISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST origins of middle eastern communism. Communism reached the Middle East shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Armenians, Azeris, Greeks, Jews, and Kurds were among the first to form trade unions and organize...
Communism and Cold War
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Communism and Cold War Communism became a central concern of the Supreme Court during the most frigid...containment of the Soviet Union. Because American policy makers equated communism with Soviet imperialism, implementation of this strategy involved...
Communism Peak
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Communism Peak see Ismoili Somoni Peak .
God That Failed, The, Six Studies in Communism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature God That Failed, The, Six Studies in Communism, published 1950, edited by R. H. S. Crossman. It marked a significant point in the reaction against the pro-Communist mood...
Communist Youth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Communist Youth Communism was one of the most important political movements...communist parties, states, and societies. Communism as a Political Movement The history of twentieth-century communism began in Russia. In November 1917, the Bolshevik...
Convergence Theory
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...struggle, and in Marx ’ s view communism ’ s inevitable triumph. Economies...not be blended with, or supersede, communism. Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik successors...capitalism are oxymorons. Capitalism and communism cannot converge, and socialism cannot...

Dictionary entries related to "communism"

Communism: Europe
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Communism: Europe "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism." The famous opening line to The Communist...fears that have been associated with European communism. Published in 1848 amid a tumultuous period...
communism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History communism A social and political ideology advocating...receiving according to needs. The ideal of communism has been embraced by many thinkers...through the work of Karl MARX , who saw communism as the final outcome of the proletarian...
Communism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Communism A political ideology which aims for an...earlier theories about such a society, Communism was first developed into a consistent...as Lenin , Stalin , Mao , and Tito , Communism became the dominant ideology of Eastern...
Communism: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Communism: Latin America Latin America in the 1890s was a society primed for the...but Marxist, Salvador Allende in an attempt to save the country from communism. Leftist parties were banned and their supporters exiled, tortured...
primitive communism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology primitive communism A term usually associated with Karl Marx , but most fully elaborated...fraternity of the ancient gentes’, and the ‘communism in living’ said to be evident in the village architecture...
Anticommunism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...aside from their shared opposition to communism or even approve of each other. At times...leader, Samuel Gompers, were hostile to communism from 1917 onward, resenting Communist...concluded that American trade unionism and communism were incompatible and expelled its Communist...
Maoism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...ideology derived from the adaptation of Communism and Marxism to Chinese conditions by...in an industrially backward country. Communism could be realized primarily through a...discipline in the attainment of revolution and Communism, rather than structural factors. Hence...
National Review
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and Frank Meyer. They believed that communism threatened the existence of civilization...entertaining critique of liberalism and communism. Most contributors, apart from the...seizing this opportunity to "roll back" communism. At the same time, it opposed President...
Excerpt from the Blue Book of the John Birch Society (c. 1960)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...right group formed in the name of anti-communism. Founded in 1958 by ultraconservative businessman...Birch as the first casualty in the war against communism, the society aims to fight communism by whatever means necessary. The Blue Book...
Togliatti, Palmiro
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Minister De Gasperi , whose personal anti-Communism was amplified by the Cold War . Disillusioned with Soviet Communism due to Khrushchev's anti-Stalinism...urged a specifically Italian road to Communism. This new Eurocommunism , accepted...

Thesaurus entries related to "communism"

communism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English communism • noun   synonyms : state ownership, collectivism, Sovietism, Bolshevism, Marxism, Leninism.
repudiate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus repudiate • verb   1. she repudiated communism synonyms : reject, renounce, abandon, give up, turn one's back on, disown, cast off, lay aside; formal forswear, abjure...
adherent
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English adherent • noun   1. an adherent of communism synonyms : supporter, follower, upholder, advocate, disciple, votary, partisan, sectary, member; inf. hanger-on...
socialism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus socialism • noun  my appreciation for certain aspects of socialism does not mean I'm a socialist synonyms : leftism, welfarism; radicalism, progressivism, social democracy; communism, Marxism, labor movement.
capitalism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus capitalism • noun  the capitalism of emerging nations synonyms : free enterprise, private enterprise, the free market. antonym: communism.
dissertation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus dissertation • noun  a fascinating dissertation on the fall of Communism synonyms : essay, thesis, treatise, paper, study, discourse, disquisition, tract, monograph.

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Communism's Bloody History.(Review)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 2/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...murder have been part of the fabric of communism since the Russian Revolution, and always...by-blow description of the crimes of communism, beginning with the Russian Revolution...in Afghanistan. Now The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is available...
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Magazine article from: Ideas on Liberty; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane...Nazism; why are we so ambivalent about communism? Black Book offers some thoughtful...why many Americans have never taken communism seriously. "Uncle" Joe Stalin was...
The Collapse of Communism
Magazine article from: Aerospace Power Journal; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; The Collapse of Communism edited by Lee Edwards. Hoover Institution...several reasons for reading The Collapse of Communism, not the least of which is the impressive array of academics who, knowing communism well, have contributed to this collection...
Comrades! A History of World Communism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Comrades! A History of World Communism, by Robert Service. Cambridge...cloth). The history of world communism has had little attention to date...Service himself notes, covering communism from before Marx and Engels's...
The Social Legacy of Communism.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...95 U.S. (paper). What legacy has communism bequeathed to Eastern Europe? The question...years have passed since the collapse of communism in east-central Europe; fewer than...can we avoid confusing the effects of communism with the effects of its collapse? What...
The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/3/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...the great ironies of our age that, as Communism has I failed the world over (the seeds...even the Soviet Union), opposition to Communism in the United States remains suspect...culture moved from a realization that Communism was a menace to freedom, to the conviction...
THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM: CRIMES, TERROR, REPRESSION.(Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM: CRIMES, TERROR, REPRESSION. By...PUBLICATION OF The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred...seller list. For anyone who doubts that communism produced anything but scores of millions...
Jewish Organisations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Jewish History; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Jewish Organisations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy. By Aviva Weingarten...organizations' responses to McCarthyism and communism offers a discerning look at how one minority...that they needed to take a stand against communism and to prove themselves to be patriotic...
The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane...and more facts continue to emerge, communism is no longer what it was thought to...the interpretation of the works of communism and its collapse is far from unanimous...
The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Francois...more and more facts continue to emerge, communism is no longer what it was thought to be...that the interpretation of the works of communism and its collapse is far from unanimous...