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Moral Code of the Builder of Communism (Russian: Моральный кодекс строителя коммунизма) was a set of twelve codified moral rules in the Soviet Union which every member of the Communist Party of the USSR and every Komsomol member were supposed to follow.
Tanks in Moscow's Red Square during the 1991 coup attempt. Disaffection in other Soviet republics, such as Georgia and Azerbaijan, was countered by promises of greater decentralization. More open elections led to the election of candidates opposed to Communist Party rule.
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 ...
The original was "exemplified in the sending of tanks into Hungary to crush resistance to Soviet communism". More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support "militant opposition to capitalism" and a more modern online variation, which means "something like 'a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose ...
The Communist Party, armed with Marxism–Leninism, determines the general perspectives of the development of society and the course of the home and foreign policy of the USSR, directs the great constructive work of the Soviet people, and imparts a planned, systematic and theoretically substantiated character to their struggle for the victory ...
The Khrushchev Thaw (Russian: хрущёвская о́ттепель, romanized: khrushchovskaya ottepel, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲːɪpʲɪlʲ] or simply ottepel) [1] is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization [2] and peaceful coexistence with other nations.
[12]: 65–66 During the Cold War the United States tried to prevent the domino theory of the spread of communism and thwart communist countries including the People's Republic of China. [13] Washington assumed that Communist North Vietnam would be a puppet state of China. However those two later went to war. [14]
The Polish anti-religious campaign was initiated by the Communist government in the Polish People's Republic which, under the doctrine of Marxism, actively advocated for the disenfranchisement of religion and planned atheisation. [1] [2] To this effect the regime conducted anti-religious propaganda and persecution of clergymen and monasteries. [2]