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Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia)Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Mari El. ...Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia)Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Komi Republic. ...Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia)Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic: see Karelia, Russia. ...Adzhar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia)Adzhar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Adjarian Autonomous Republic, Georgia. ...era
(Encyclopedia)era, period of historic time. In geology, it is the name applied to large divisions of geological process, e.g., Paleozoic era (see geology). In chronology an era is a period reckoned from a fixed poi...Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union
(Encyclopedia)See L. Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2d ed. 1971); S. F. Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet Experience (1985); M. Geller, Utopia in Power (1986); S. Carter, Russian Nationalism (1990); ...perestroika
(Encyclopedia)perestroika pərˈĕstroyˈkə [key], Soviet economic and social policy of the late 1980s. Perestroika [restructuring] was the term attached to the attempts (1985–91) by Mikhail Gorbachev to transfo...soviet
(Encyclopedia)soviet, primary unit in the political organization of the former USSR. The term is the Russian word for council. The first soviets were revolutionary committees organized by Russian socialists in the ...socialist realism
(Encyclopedia)socialist realism, Soviet artistic and literary doctrine. The role of literature and art in Soviet society was redefined in 1932 when the newly created Union of Soviet Writers proclaimed socialist rea...Transcaucasia
(Encyclopedia)Transcaucasia trănzˌkôkāˈzhə, –shə, trănsˌ– [key], transitional region between Europe and Asia, extending from the Greater Caucasus to the Turkish and Iranian borders, between the Black a...Browse by Subject
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