Communism: A scheme of equalizing the social conditions
of life; specifically, a
scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities
in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to
all, or by holding all
wealth in common for the equal use and advantage
of all.
Note: At different times, and in different countries,
various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions
of domestic life, as
well as in the distribution of wealth, have been
called communism.
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Revised Unabridged Dictionary**
Berlin Wall: This barrier was meant to stop the
flow of people seeking a better life out of the easteren state.
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U.S.S.R: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Commonly called Soviet Union or Russia. Abbr. USSR
A former
country of eastern Europe and northern Asia with coastlines on the Baltic
and Black seas and the
Arctic
and Pacific oceans. It was established in December 1922 with the union
of the Russian SFSR (proclaimed
after
the Russian Revolution of 1917) and various other soviet republics, including
Belorussia and the
Ukraine.
In 1991 a number of consituent republics declared their independence, and
the USSR was officially
dissolved
on December 31, 1991. Moscow was the capital.
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Capitalism: An economic system in which the means
of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned
and
development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits
gained in a free market.
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Socialism:1.Any of various theories or systems
of social organization in which the means of producing and
distributing
goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans
and
controls the
economy.
2.The stage in Marxist-Leninist
theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in
which collective
ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has
not
yet been successfully
achieved.
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