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TOTALITARIANISM: absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. |
Joseph Stalin – In the Soviet Union, after the conclusion of Civil War, Stalin took over the country and began executing any people who were not in alignment with the goals of the state |
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WAR: a state or period of fighting between countries or groups |
The Russian Civil War The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. |
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HOLOCAUST: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. |
the Holocaust: the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II |
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GENOCIDE: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. |
The Stalinist Era in the USSR (1929-1953) The Soviet elimination of a social class, the Kulaks, and the subsequent killer famine among all Ukrainian peasants, killed at least two million alone, while Stalin’s notorious 1937 Order No. 00447, that called for the mass execution and exile of “socially harmful elements” as “enemies of the people”. |
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REVOLUTION: an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. |
French Revolution, which was quite violent and bloody. It is also doubtful that the United States would have won its independence from Great Britain were it not for an armed insurrection. |
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DICTATORSHIP: form of government characterized by the absolute rule of one person or a very small group of people who hold all political power. |
Nicholas II - Russia - 1894 to 1917 |
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COMMUNISM: a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
Cuba - Fidel Castro took over the government of Cuba with the revolution in 1959. It became totally communistic by 1961, is ruled by the Communist Party of Cuba and became close to the Soviet Union after 1961. |
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COLD WAR: The definition of cold war is hostility between areas, states or nations without physical fighting. |
The protracted cold war (1945–91) between the non-Communist and Communist countries, esp. between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, in which each side attempted to check the global power and influence of the other: the Cold War was characterized by a buildup of large military forces and nuclear arsenals, military interventions as in Asia and Africa, the use of propaganda and espionage, etc. |
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SOCIETY: an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. |
The Internet Society was formed in 1992 by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two of the “Fathers of the Internet”. The Internet Society’s history and values reflect this founding lineage. Among its leadership and membership one can find many of the Internet’s technical pioneers, innovators, and global connectors. Its mission—to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world—mirrors the guiding principles that gave rise to and enabled the propagation of our era’s defining technology. |
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CIVIL SOCIETY: the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society |
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