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SED Party Congress 1958. The Ten Commandments of Socialist Morality and Ethics (German: Zehn Gebote der sozialistischen Moral und Ethik), also known as Ten Commandments for the New Socialist Man (German: 10 Gebote für den neuen sozialistischen Menschen), were proclaimed by Walter Ulbricht, then First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), at the fifth SED Party Congress ...
Its twelve rules may be superficially compared to the Ten Commandments, but they overlap only marginally (although in Russian-speaking books and media one may sometimes see the claims about foundations in the Bible, referring to, e.g., "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10); also used in the 1936 Soviet Constitution ...
The Communist Manifesto (German: Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848.
The first version, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith, was discussed and approved at the first June congress; [7] Marx was not present at the June congress, but Engels was. [5] This first draft, unknown for many years, was rediscovered in 1968. [8] The second draft, Principles of Communism, was then used at the second November/December ...
Communism was decisively defeated in other states, including Malaya and Indonesia. In 1972–1979, there was détente between the Soviet Union and the United States. The fall of Communism in Europe (1980–1992) in which Soviet client states were heavily on the defensive as in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. The United States escalated the conflict ...
A fifth book was planned as early as 1960, to include selected writings from the PRC period, but Mao resisted its production as he felt his essays and speeches on Socialist Construction (1949–1957) were still evolving compared to the views contained in the earlier volumes.
Stéphane Courtois (French pronunciation: [stefan kuʁtwa]; born 25 November 1947) is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche-sur-Yon, and director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and communist states.
The leadership of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP), [10] the Swedish Left Communist Party (VPK) and the French Communist Party (PCF) which had pleaded for conciliation expressed their disapproval about the Soviet intervention, [11] with the PCF thereby publicly criticizing a Soviet action for the first time in its history.