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Soviet Union
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Soviet Union. Cheka
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Soviet Union. Workers and Peasants Red Army
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Labor Unions
Labor UnionsI. Theories of the Labor MovementMark PerlmanBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Labor Movements and Collective Bargaining in EuropeAdolf SturmthalBIBLIOGRAPHYIII. The Structure of Unions in the United StatesPhilip TaftBIBLIOGRAPHYIV. Influence on WagesH. Gregg LewisBIBLIOGRAPHYI. THEORIES OF THE LABOR... Read more |
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Trade Union Educational League
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE (TUEL). Established in Chicago (1920) under the leadership of William Z. Foster, TUEL grew from left-wing labor activists' efforts to build a progressive union movement. Used by the Communist Party to strengthen leftist forces inside... Read more |
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin The Soviet statesman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union and the leader of world communism for almost 30 years. Under Joseph Stalin the Soviet Union greatly enlarged its territory, won a war of unprecedented destructiveness, and transformed... Read more |
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Stakhanovism
Stakhanovism , movement begun (1935) in the Soviet Union aimed at increasing industrial production by the use of efficient working techniques. It was named for Aleksey Grigorevich Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Donets Basin, whose team increased its daily output sevenfold by organizing a more... Read more |
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August Coup
August Coup attempted coup (Aug. 18-22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . On the eve of the signing ceremony for a new union treaty for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, members of the Politburo and the heads of the Soviet military and security services detained Gorbachev... Read more |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist... Read more |
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Yuri Vladimirovich
ANDROPOV, YURI VLADIMIROVICH (1914–1984), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982–1984). Y... Read more |
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