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biogenesis
biogenesis The principle that a living organism can arise only from another living organism, a principle contrasting with concepts such as that of the spontaneous generation of living from non-living matter. The term is currently more often used to refer to the formation from or by living organisms... Read more |
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Right to Die
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Senegambia
Senegambia , short-lived (1982-89) confederation of Senegal and The Gambia .... Read more |
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Methuselah
Methuselah , in the Bible, descendant of Seth; son of Enoch. He is said to have lived 969 years. It is also spelled Mathusala.... Read more |
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protoplasm
protoplasm Living contents of a plant or animal cell. It includes both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of cells.... Read more |
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Zooxanthellae
zooxanthellae Unicellular dinoflagellates (see DINOFLAGELLIDA) that live symbiotically (see SYMBIOSIS) with certain corals.... Read more |
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communism
...The CPSU traced its roots to Lenin's faction within the illegal...the inter-war period. Under Lenin, it had sought to act as...it abandoned the primacy of Lenin's internationalism, and, with...collective aspects of political life, minimizing the rights and... |
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
...government. There were party cells in almost all areas of Soviet life, such as the school system, armed forces, factories, collective...for the communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov. See also communism; Lenin; individual party leaders |
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Du Bois, W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
...Darkwater (1920), essays, sketches, and verses about the life of blacks in the U.S. His significant historical and sociological...and Worlds of Color (1961). In 1958 he was awarded the Lenin International Peace Prize and in 1961 he joined the Communist... |
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Kennan, George F(rost)
...American Relations1917–1920; and Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin (1961). His Memoirs (1967) won him another...emotion along with sharp insight is later found in Sketches from a Life (1989). Other significant books include The Cloud of Danger... |
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Eastman, Max (Forrester)
...writings are devoted to literary criticism, the relation of art to life, and problems of economic inequality. He is best known for...Masses and The Liberator. Among his later books are Marx, Lenin, and the Science of Revolution (1926); The Literary Mind... |
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Pogodin, Nikolai Fedorovich
...Moscow Nights (1942) and The Ferryboat Girl (1943), were also well received. He wrote a trilogy based on the life of Lenin—The Man with a Gun (1937), The Kremlin Chimes (1942), and The Third, Pathétique (1958). A revised version... |
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Travesties
...various time shifts, in Zurich during the First World War, where Lenin, Joyce, and Tristan Tzara happened to be residing; they appear...portrayed. Stoppard produces from a minor incident from Ellman's life of Joyce a theatrical, informative, and witty commentary on... |
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Wilson, Edmund
...traditions from Michelet to Lenin to Trotsky; The Boys in the...culture. In the last year of his life and following his death there...1946), stories about the lives of wealthy New York suburban intelligentsia...19) to portray his early life; Upstate (1971) ... |
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MacBride, Sean
...satisfied republican demands. He then took up life as a barrister and soon won a national reputation...awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1974 and the Lenin peace prize in 1977. He formulated the...Northern Ireland.Although eulogized in later life as an international jurist ... |
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Nearing, Scott
...expelled from the party as a deviationist from the Lenin line. Nearing and his wife Helen decided in 1932 they...writing, crafts, or music. They described their life in Living the Good Life (1954), which became one of the testamentary documents... |
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Lenin
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov...born in Russia, whose early life was characterized by a more...aristocracy in early capitalism. Lenin also offered an influential analysis...Marxist intellectual circles. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik... |
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov...Commissars) of the Soviet Union (1918–24). Lenin was the first political leader to attempt...revolution. During the last years of his life he denounced, but was unable to prevent... |
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Stalin, Iosef Vissarioniovich
...Although at first sceptical of Lenin's violent opposition to the war...Polish War. On 3 April 1922, Lenin appointed him General Secretary of...struggles that ensued in the last year of Lenin's life, Stalin thus occupied a central position... |
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communism
...s theories were the moving force behind LENIN and the BOLSHEVIKS and the establishment...system in the SOVIET UNION.In the hands of LENIN and his successors in the Soviet Union...economy were to be abolished, and economic life was to be controlled by planning ministries... |
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Shchedrin, Rodion (Konstantinovich)
...Fugues for pf. (1963–70); oratorio Poetoria, for poet, woman's v., ch., and orch. (1968); cantata Lenin Lives (Lenin zhiryot) (1969); 2 str. qts. (1951, 1954); pf. quintet (1952); songs and pf. pieces. |
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Communist Party, Soviet Union
...1921, initially its membership was relatively selective, as Lenin considered the Russian peasantry and working classes too ‘uncultured...responsible position in public, cultural, economic, or educational life.From the leadership of Andropov, who, after Chernenko... |
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Communism
...ideal society characterized by common ownership and communal life. Despite earlier theories about such a society, Communism was...to each according to his need’. Through followers such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Tito, Communism became the dominant ideology... |
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Russia, Christianity in
...Russian Church took the E. side. Monastic life began in the first half of the 11th cent...reorganization of all aspects of Church life, in particular restoring the Patriarchate...forbidden by law, it became difficult after Lenin's decree of 1918 removed the right of... |
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scientific management
...Henry Ford) but also leading figures elsewhere, including Lenin. However, it was resisted strongly at grassroots level by...managers, because of its very tight control of personal work-life. Taylor viewed workers as if they were, or ought to be, human... |
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Lenin's wonderful Georgian: John Etty charts the complex, and highly...
...unquestioningly follow his lead. Lenin was always devoted to the revolution...was Stalin's knowledge of life in Georgia, at the extremities of the Empire, which led Lenin to court his assistance in 1912...in the winter of 1912 to meet Lenin. Seemingly ... |
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Lenin, bicycles, theory and love; Rainer Ganahl: Christine Martin in...
...also held reading seminars with Lenin texts. Specifically, I would...theory and practice in your art and life in America. RG: Lenin himself was fascinated with the...communism. I became interested in Lenin through a little book I would recommend... |
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Lenin: a Biography.(Book Review)
...Any biographer of Lenin has an unenviable task...write about someone whose life has been scrutinized...magisterial three-volume Lenin: A Political Life is invaluable. Service...oriented version of Lenin's life. This material ... |
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Lenin: A Biography.(Book Review)
...available, focuses on Lenin's personal life. Still, this is political...valetudinarian and, in daily life, quite impractical Lenin, having at hand his...contradictory qualities. Lenin loved children, willingly...Beethoven, and, in daily ... |
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Lenin.(Book Review)
...new" Lenin--to have destroyed Lenin's supposedly enduring myth...prove annoying. As a chronicle of Lenin's life, d'Encausse's biography is serviceable...childhood to national leadership, Lenin's life story unfolds step by ... |
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Lenin: A Biography.(Review)
...West, among the dwindling ranks of Lenin professionals. Service, who taught...s College, Oxford, translated Lenin's State and Revolution; co-authored...published a three-volume "political life" of Lenin in 1985, '91, and '95. This... |
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Lenin's Sainted Memory Remains Inviolable In the Age of Glasnost
"Lenin Lives." In seven decades of Soviet...certain through the heroic life, death and afterlife of Vladimir...Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin." Books that attack the...Soviet socialism, that attack Lenin for ruthlessness and ... |
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Lenin: the original `enemy of the people'
...record, they should be attributed to Lenin. "By his actions," Volkogonov writes, "Lenin taught Stalin his ruthlessness, his implacability...ability to `work with the cadres.' " In life as in myth, Lenin was a lover of secrecy and conspiracies... |
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Lenin: A Biography
...history. His most recent book, Lenin: A Biography, provides the reader...events of the twentieth century. Lenin still affects our life today-his followers are numerous...many books have tried to depict Lenin as a well-meaning reformer whose... |
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Vladimir Lenin as Genghis Khan.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
...cruelty point for point. In 1918 Lenin sent a secret letter to the Chairman...the newly released documents is Lenin's utter disregard for human life. For mankind at large he had...again "Into the Archive." Lenin was prepared to "burn Baku to... |
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