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Soviet Union. Cheka
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Birmingham Political Union
Birmingham Political Union. Formed in 1830 by Thomas Attwood to press for parliamentary reform as a remedy for economic distress and inspired by the successful campaign for catholic emancipation. Led by local businessmen and manufacturers, the BPU aimed to unite middle- and working-class reformers... 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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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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Commissar
COMMISSAR Soviet government official. "Commissar" was the title given to the bureaucratic leaders of the Soviet Union, used from 1917 to 1946. The title and rank of commissar was also given to the military-political officers serving with the Red Army during World War II. Also known as People's... 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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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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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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Radicalism
...Democratic machine politics. The great reform movements of the mid...helped speed the Union victory, but Republican...third‐party politics. Socialists struggled...closely tied to the Soviet Union but sometimes ... |
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Latvia
...farmed. History and Politics The ancestors of...Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide...Europe. In 1940, Soviet troops invaded Latvia...became part of the Soviet Union. In 1941...Union introduced ... |
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Anticommunism
...century American politics. While its enemies...linked the American reform movement to the...Society, who regarded Soviet espionage and...Forward; labor‐union officials like...alliance against the Soviet Union and other ... |
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United Kingdom
...Northern Ireland is a union of four countries...resistance to colonial reform led to conflict with...and 1830s saw new reform legislation, including...middle-class in the Reform Acts. Sir Robert...Gladstone dominated UK politics. The defeat ... |
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Polish Americans
...Polish Roman Catholic Union (1873) and the secular...and other industrial unions. Polish Americans overwhelmingly...which left Poland a Soviet satellite and sparked fifty...to America. The 1965 reform of the U.S. immigration law combined...Polish‐American ... |
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Hillman, Sidney
...social democratic reform of American capitalism. His union's collective bargaining...the multiethnic union—it had 177,000...scares; trade union decline...under U.S.–Soviet leadership...Korman , New Jewish Politics for an ... |
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
...tarnished its reputation. To reform the Bureau, J. Edgar...communist sympathizers from unions, schools, and the entertainment...successes in investigating Soviet espionage, especially in...became embroiled in partisan politics with Hoover feeding ... |
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Dewey, John
...earliest ventures into educational reform. Recognizing the pedagogical implications of...China, Turkey, Mexico, and the Soviet Union. He played a leading role in the...1920s, radical third‐party politics in the 1930s, and anti‐Stalinist... |
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Kyrgyzstan
...of the Turkestan Soviet Republic in 1918...full member of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Stalinist land reforms settled most of...the late 1980s, politics were conducted more...economic and political reform of all ... |
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Moldova
...Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic within the USSR...independence from the moribund Soviet Union days after the August...Throughout the 1990s, politics were extremely unstable...to introduce economic reforms, so that the country... |
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Hungary
...defeat brought Soviet domination and a...resistance to the Soviet Union. Hungary experienced...resulted in multiparty politics being restored...programme of ambitious reforms to revive the economy...launched in 1990. These ... |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
...ranging government reform, and implemented this in his...but also with the Soviet Union. He extended the...conceding too much Soviet influence over a...the nature of US politics, through extending...major actor in global ... |
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Mafia, the
...the southern Italian locality in politics, economy, and society. However...vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and of Communist state...significant hindrance to economic reform in these countries. |
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After empire: what? (post-Soviet Union politics and Russia's political...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY the lands and peoples of the Soviet Union were defined and studied in terms of their common Soviet, or communist, identity. Eastern Europe...has not disappeared along with it. The Soviet Union was in effect a new form of ... |
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POLITICS AND MONEY GORBACHEV SLOWS REFORMS; SOVIETS CALL ECONOMY FRAGILE.(Main)
...Most of the reforms, including sharp...of the Soviet Union's state-owned...Although top Soviet officials had...to develop the reform program. "This...for the whole reform program to be presented to Soviet ... |
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Soviets Await Benefits Of Gorbachev Reforms;Bread-and-Butter Issues Test...
...the history of the Soviet state, Kremlin...Granin, say that the reform movement cannot...and the Soviet Union's economic prospects...debate and genuine politics into Soviet life...fashioned Soviet ... |
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As the Gorbachev wave heads east; Asia's Communists are watching in horror as...
...s radical moves to reform Soviet politics are debasing the authority...uncertain. The economic reforms that multiplied peasant...are calmer; but the Soviet Union may be about to become...The changes in the ... |
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Gorby at bay. (Mikhail Gorbachev and politics in the Soviet Union) (editorial)
...as the leader of Soviet reform. In that brief...democratization reforms, which provided...disintegration of the Soviet Union itself. Privately...of Gorbachev's reforms on the prestige...kinds of anti-reform ... |
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May the best team win. (Soviet Union economic reform planning)
...days a week on a new reform strategy for the Soviet Union. Most mornings, the...has his own, bolder reform plan. Enter a second...star players in Soviet politics, Mr Yeksin and President...the two approaches to ... |
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Cats and bears: practicing left politics in the Soviet Union. (interview)
...Bears: Practicing Left Politics in the Soviet Union A very fine cat act in...Foundation poster about the Soviet menace. Back in the...after a conference of reform groups, the first such...success of the current reform ... |
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SOVIET PREMIER THREATENS BALTICS SAYS 3 REPUBLICS FACE CUTOFF OF AID IF THEY...
...Russia pull out of the Soviet Union. Yeltsin made his remarks...between Russia and the Soviet Union. The committee...implications for the politics of Soviet reform. For months, Ryzhkov...lame duck of ... |
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Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of...
...Conflict in the Politics of Soviet...the Soviet Union's controls...relationship between politics and trade...evidence that the Soviet Union ever used its...was that most reforms proposed by ... |
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A new deal for Eastern Europe; Gorbachev's gamble. (Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet...
...for candor in politics, economic reform and cultural...depended on the Soviet Union to act as a bulwark...democratic electoral reform in a highly publicized...Why should a reform-minded Soviet General ... |
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