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Command Economy
communist economic system, state controlled the entire
economy. the means of production are publicly owned and
economic activity is controlled by a central authority
TERM 2
Bourgeoisie
DEFINITION 2
a social class charcartizd by their owenrship of all means of
production
TERM 3
Dictatorship of the
Proletariat
DEFINITION 3
according to marxism- the transitional phase between the
abolition of capitalism and the etablishment of communism
TERM 4
Proletariat
DEFINITION 4
industrial working class
TERM 5
Party State
DEFINITION 5
a single political party forms the government
Perestroika
russian for "restructuring"- Gorbachev's proposals to reform
the Soviet economy in the mid 1980's
TERM 7
Karl Marx
DEFINITION 7
German philosopher who wrote the Communist Manifesto in
TERM 8
Vladimir
Lenin
DEFINITION 8
revolutionary leader and FOUNDER of the soviet state
TERM 9
Joseph Stalin
DEFINITION 9
soviet dictator for nearly a quarter of a centurary, roughly to
TERM 10
Mao Zedong
DEFINITION 10
founder of Chinese communist state (cheif of state of the
peoples republic of china from 1949-
Politburo
"political bureau"- small, top governing body of most
Communist Parties
TERM 17
Secretariat
DEFINITION 17
party bureacucracy, general secretary is the head
TERM 18
Vladimir Puttin
DEFINITION 18
president of Russia 2000-2008, now prime minister
TERM 19
King Jong-il
DEFINITION 19
de facto leader of North Korea
TERM 20
RUSSIAN Federation cards
DEFINITION 20
Definition
Glasnost
"openness"
TERM 22
Shock Therapy
DEFINITION 22
sudden replacment of socialist eccononmy with free market
TERM 23
Privatization
DEFINITION 23
etablishing privet owernship of business
TERM 24
"near abroad"
DEFINITION 24
former republcis of soviety union
TERM 25
V.I.
Lenin
DEFINITION 25
founder of soviet states
Russian Federation
new country etablished decemebr 1991
TERM 32
Goplan
DEFINITION 32
state planning committee under soviet union- main econmic
and social planner "soviet central economic planning
agenecy"
TERM 33
Federation Council
DEFINITION 33
upper house of the russian parilment
TERM 34
Nomenklatura
DEFINITION 34
appointment power of a comunist party also refers to soviet
elite
TERM 35
Marxism-Lenninism
DEFINITION 35
ideology that is communism
General Secretary (Gensek)
head of party secretary, main adminstriative position of the
comunist party.
TERM 37
Dmitiri Medvedev
DEFINITION 37
president of russian federation 2008-to now
TERM 38
Gulag
DEFINITION 38
accyonam for soviet labor camps.
TERM 39
Ukraine
DEFINITION 39
region south of Russia, now independent.
TERM 40
Central Committee of CPSU
DEFINITION 40
large, next-to-top governing body of most Communist parties
February Revolution
1917- overthrowing of the monarchy or sar system
TERM 47
October Revolution
DEFINITION 47
Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the
Soviet regime. beginning of the Soviet regime in 1917
TERM 48
Autocracy
DEFINITION 48
Asbolute rule of one person in centralized staste
TERM 49
Politburo
DEFINITION 49
top central decision oligarchy of a communist system
TERM 50
Peter I
DEFINITION 50
the great westinzer 1682-1725, tsar of Russia
Mafiya
The russian organized crime groups
TERM 52
New Economic
Policy
DEFINITION 52
retreat that was started by Lenin, which allowed for the
return of some degree of capitalism
TERM 53
Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili
DEFINITION 53
Legal name of Stalin
TERM 54
Collectivization
DEFINITION 54
forced mobalization of peasentry on to farms by stalin Under
collectivization the peasantry were forced to give up their
individual farms and join large collective farms
TERM 55
Vladimir Putin
DEFINITION 55
president of russa from 2000-2008, now prime ministier from
08-present
United Russia
Putins Party, dominent party in russia from 03- on
TERM 62
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
DEFINITION 62
reminents of the old soviet communist party- now in
opptiotion to United Russia
TERM 63
Liberal Democratic Party
DEFINITION 63
far right wing political party- has faciast characestirtics
TERM 64
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
DEFINITION 64
leader of the Liberal Democractic Party
TERM 65
Kremlin
DEFINITION 65
russian name for Fortress, refered 2 modscow
CHINA CARDS
Definition
TERM 67
Han
DEFINITION 67
Han dynasty( (206 bcad 220) "the core nationality and main
people of China" - form the Han Dynasty (2nd great dynasty)
TERM 68
Confucius
DEFINITION 68
Classical chinese philosopher, etablished ethical standards
for China
TERM 69
Four Modernizations
DEFINITION 69
china's modernziations in 1. inudustry 2. science and
technolog 3. agrilcuture 4. military fter mao dezong died=
goals of Deng Xiaoping
TERM 70
Mass Line
DEFINITION 70
mao's theory of revolution for China people must follow the
mass line
Jiang Zemin
general secretary of China from 1989-
TERM 77
Zhou Enlai
DEFINITION 77
became china's premier head of government
TERM 78
Sez (Speical Economic
Zone)
DEFINITION 78
etablished by Deng Xiapoing, foreign investment hiring
chinese labor, areas where captalist economic developoment
was encouraged
TERM 79
PRC
DEFINITION 79
Peoples Republic of China (communst government)
TERM 80
PLA
DEFINITION 80
Peoples Liberation Army
KMT (GMD)
Nationalist Party of China
TERM 82
CCP
DEFINITION 82
Chinese Communist Party
TERM 83
Kuamintang (Guomindang)
DEFINITION 83
political party that governed all or part of mainland China
from 1928 to 1949
TERM 84
Nationalist Party
DEFINITION 84
political party that governed all or part of mainland China
from 1928 to 1949- Unified China in late 1920s
TERM 85
Manchu
DEFINITION 85
Last imperial dynasty of China, 1644-1912- also known as
Qing
Great Leap Forward
1958-1960, failed CHinese effort at overnight
industrialization
TERM 92
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
DEFINITION 92
19641976 upheaval launched by Chinese Communist Party
chairman Mao Zedong during his last decade in power to
renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution
TERM 93
Democracy Movement
DEFINITION 93
the movenment that was organized after the crackdown of
Tienman Sqaure
TERM 94
Falun
Gong
DEFINITION 94
spirtural exercise movnement that emerged in the late
1990's startled the communist party
TERM 95
Qin Dynasty
DEFINITION 95
The Qin Dynasty was the 1st ruling Chinese dynasty between
221 and 206 BC.
Qing Dynasty
also known as the Manchu Dynasty, was the last ruling
dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912
TERM 97
Hu Jintao
DEFINITION 97
Present general secretary of chinese party
TERM 98
Wen Jiabao
DEFINITION 98
Prsent Premier of China
TERM 99
Guanxi
DEFINITION 99
chinese for "connections"- the idea that you need
connections to get ahead in the poltical system
TERM 100
Middle (Central) Kingdom
DEFINITION 100
ancient city of china "china's traditional and current name for
itself"
