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The European Union, NATO, the euro, and central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism.

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... comes in several flavors, and can be organized around a belief system (Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, et al); a social order (communism, socialism, mercantilism); military leadership (juntas of various degrees and social orientations); philosophical strain (utopianism, stoicism, realpolitik, opportunism); or, commercial interests (mercantilism, capi...

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...feet. His walls may have many flags, And his mind thoughts of glasnost and communism Intermixed.. impractical thoughts He must sacrifice so that He ca...

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...Central Asia's New Dastans Central Asian Survey Vol. 6, No. 1, 198 Chora Batir: A Tatar Admonition to Future Generations Studies in Comparative Communism Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, Autumn/Winter 1986 Two Mythical PANs: Uses of Apocrypha Ascribed to the Turks Eurasian Studies (Ankara) Summer 1994; Translation in Avrasya Etri (Ankara) Yaz, 2, 199 Two Altaic Games: Cheli...

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...” (Bulgarian language) right after the “turning back” from the “Xerxes” of communism in 1997. But hypnotized by the images of “saviors”, “supermen”, “...

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... the Russian civil war (1918-1922) the Bolsheviks implemented what they called "War Communism" (1917- 1921), the militarization of the economy. Betwe...

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...een steep (recall the Industrial Revolution and, more recently, the transition from Communism to Capitalism). Climate change is not likely to be the...

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...ilt for himself. Religion is not going to save man; neither atheism nor communism nor any of those systems. Not only the teachings but the teacher... ...ed today—in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism—are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in...

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...ultinational” nature. He predicted processes such as the fall of Russia’s communism and globaliza- - tion long before they became evident to the rest...

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...est," thought Gabriele. She felt that democracy was as much an experiment as communism: an experiment on how free to be greedy things could get withou... ...rely destroying the ecology that was the base of it all whereas the original communism of Trotsky was an experiment on how equal life could get and st... ...or of the man she had slept with; packed more of her things; saluted the new communism in her heart; snickered inside at the thought that Japan had ou... ...a penchant for investments despite being one of the last vestiges of Russian communism." He didn't grasp her concept since it was muddled in large voc...

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...with some imagination provide a thoretical concept for an abstract direction. 2. The manifesto is a selective aggregate of capitalism, socialism and communism. It adheres to utilitarianism while recognizing the human condition. The requirement of some form of rules and regulations are generally agreed as necessary. However, the term “government” in this manifesto refers ...

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...r Pick A Topic 13 Silence and John Cage 15 Matchmaking: Harvest Time Celebration of Romance 16 All Aboard!: The Mayflower’s Passengers 17 WLF Communism Collection 19 Help for Those Who Help Themselves 20 Jewish Holidays: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur 21 Author Spotlight...

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...hannel egoism to benefit society, but that has already been tried in Russia’s communism, and failed miserably. Even America, the land of freedom of ...

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...anding and approach. That is how it used to be in Russia. If I did not accept communism, they could punish me and even kill me. They set their own r...

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...tute farmers and vile politicians, it was exposed to world gaze by the collapse of communism. There are encouraging signs of awakening, of change a... ... Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930's, liberal capitalism, communism, and fascism (and its mutations) were locked in mortal... ... his mind, by Germany's corporatism and by the existence of a common enemy: global communism. Colonialism always had discernible religious overtone... ...e impossibility of co-existence with liberal democracies. For the Soviet Union and communism the territorial expansion was a vital necessity - elim... ...sky sought to export the revolution to other countries! Every dominant narrative - Communism, fascism, Islam, liberal-democracy - invents "enemies"... ... hands-on, ubiquitous, "earthly" creed. Secular religions - Democratic Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more ... ...hat everything has a price and that there is always a time of reckoning? Regarding Communism: The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Repu... ... said that there is no precedent to the extant fortean transition from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism. This might well be true. Yet, n... ...owards becoming an economic man ... the ancient citizen was a political man." What communism did to the lands it permeated was to freeze this early...

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...ing the 1900s. There were 40 years of war then 40 years of backward moving communism. But China is now making the progress that is rapidly bringing ... ...the burden of overpopulation and wars brought it to a subsistence economy. Communism held back the natural intelligence and industriousness of the C... ...omen had more opportunities to advance through education. The overthrow of Communism brought some positive changes. But the Russian mafia emerged. T... ...rd thrust of the whole society must be our major concern. The totalitarian Communism of Mao certainly had many major faults. The needless deaths of ... ... China today they are allowing some religious beliefs. They did this under communism but it is more pronounced now. The present government wants a ...

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...ted did America become prosperous again. During the 1930's, Fascism and Communism were the most successful economies, but both were flawed. Fa... ...edistribution, a war economy, on cheap slave labor, and trade protectionism. Communism, was based on the state owning everything, and turning an ag...

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...arx then said that eventually the economic system would be what he called communism, where the gauge would be ‗from each according to his ability to ... ..., yet he said that ‗religion is the opium of the people.‘‖ —―True. For communism to work you would have to have a truly loving and selfless commu... ... of a utopia it can develop the fervor and fanaticism or many religions. Communism, Nazism, materialism or fascism can be followed with a zeal once... ...ent, or maybe a true democracy. We can look at the economic systems, like communism, socialism, free enterprise or capitalism. Every system has some... ...inesses that will employ people and will contribute to the society. Under communism the businesses couldn‘t even start. ―Society has to c... ...al ideas can also get in the way of democracy and science. Look at Marx‘s Communism in the Soviet Union and in China. Any idea of democratic election... ... democratic elections was overruled by the essential and ultimate goal of Communism. Single party rule is not democratic. Democratic voting has neve... ...uiding principles of a nation‘s political or economic thinking. ―Communism hasn‘t worked as an economic system based on totalitarian central... ... ―A political liberal is probably for equality, socialism, and maybe communism. But a liberal education is supposed to make one freer in thinki...

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...e″, the communist meetings on the class struggle and on the superiority of communism, or gregarious happenings extolling libertinism, immorality and ...

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...unfair than the capitalist model. The Marxists used the lip-service dogma of communism to concentrate more power at the top than any hierarchy incl... ... still think Lenin’s Marxism, and Stalin’s Totalitarian State; was based upon communism. In fact: the word itself cannot be used anymore… much less ... ...be used anymore… much less the idea behind it. By Stalin adopting the word; “Communism” as a label for the Bolshevik’s less civilized brand of syst... ...ilitary dictatorship than the West supported… The result is today, the word; Communism instead of representing the idea of small self-sufficient com... ...lternative to our present model to such an extent that the words; commune, or communism, or anything that is communal in nature is automatically reje... ...tes. When they were the complete anathema, the complete opposite of communal communism. Israel used a system of communes successfully to establis... ...ommunes: ‘Kibbutz’s’, instead of communes. If they had tried to use the word communism instead of the word kibbutzim… they would have been attacked... ...munists, and their Nation would never have gained the support of the West. Communism was attempted in America in the 1960’s and 70’s where hippies... ...idea of any kind of cooperative commune, communal lifestyle, or community, or ‘communism’ has been almost completely wiped out by capitalism. The wo...

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...start it, the nation would have faced a strong agitation towards establishing communism.” Because of this, the rich lavishly supported and helped Ga...

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...hands-on, ubiquitous, "earthly" creed. Secular religions - Democratic Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more ... ...he West Lost the East The Criminality of Transition Fascism - The Tensile Permanence Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism Left and Right in a Divided Euro... ...izing principles of international affairs - most crucially Empire in the 1960s and Communism in the 1980s - led to the re-eruption of exclusionary,... ...is not the only benefit the EU would derive from its embrace of the former lands of communism. Faced with an inexorably ageing populace and an unsu... ...ited States for its unflinching - and spectacularly successful - confrontation with communism. France and Germany - entangled in entente and Ostpo... ... and 6.6 percent in 2006. The situation hasn't been this dire since the toppling of communism in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Ironically, these b... ...conditioners are being successfully implemented." Twelve years after the demise of communism, Russia is regrouping. It is patching the torn fabric ... ...d Saint - Hitler Fascism - The Tensile Permanence Left and Right in a Divided Europe Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism A Classification of Cultures W... ... Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930's, liberal capitalism, communism, and fascism (and its mutations) were locked in a mort...

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..., Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930's, liberal capitalism, communism, and fascism (and its mutations) were locked in mortal battle ... ..., by Germany's corporatism and by the existence of a common enemy: global communism. Colonialism always had discernible religious overtones and of... ...ice, and the very depth of our souls. Note - Exclusionary Ideas of Progress Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Religious Fundamentalism are as utopian ... ...e pseudo- scientific. Still, there are some important distinctions between Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Religious Fundamentalism, on the one han... ...they redefine "humanity" (who is human) to exclude large groups of people. Communism embraces the Working Class (Proletariat) but not the Bourgeois... ...e eerie similarities will have come to their natural conclusion. Also Read: Communism and Feudalism Russia: Russian Roulette Lucky Russia Foreigners ...

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...), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin) and anarcho-syndicalism, educational anarc... ...on of voluntary associations (Bakunin), trade unions (anarcho- syndicalists), ideal communism (Kropotkin). What is common to this smorgasbord is the... ...nation-state and pure anarchism (hence anarcho-syndicalism and some forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology,... ... a right to kill IP - but this right is not automatic, nor is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Repub... ... said that there is no precedent to the extant fortean transition from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism. This might well be true. Yet, n... ...owards becoming an economic man ... the ancient citizen was a political man." What communism did to the lands it permeated was to freeze this early... ...l and advancement. The clock was turned back. Weber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Po... ...ttitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. The city liberated its c... ... Society, 980-1420, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that communism was an urban phenomenon (albeit with rustic roots) - i...

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...), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin) and anarcho-syndicalism, educational anarc... ...on of voluntary associations (Bakunin), trade unions (anarcho- syndicalists), ideal communism (Kropotkin). What is common to this smorgasbord is the... ...nation-state and pure anarchism (hence anarcho-syndicalism and some forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology,... ... a right to kill IP - but this right is not automatic, nor is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Repub... ... said that there is no precedent to the extant fortean transition from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism. This might well be true. Yet, n... ...owards becoming an economic man ... the ancient citizen was a political man." What communism did to the lands it permeated was to freeze this early... ...l and advancement. The clock was turned back. Weber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Po... ...ttitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. The city liberated its c... ... Society, 980-1420, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that communism was an urban phenomenon (albeit with rustic roots) - i...

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...epreneurship and Workaholism V. The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism VI. The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership VI... ... By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Communism abolished official unemployment. It had no place in the dictator... ...y in and out. For a long time, it seemed as though Japan succeeded where communism failed. Its unemployment rate was eerily low. It has since climb... ...er the art of harnessing them. The Labour Divide IV. The Unions after Communism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press Internationa... ...e their jobs - union membership plummets. The ignominious implosion of Communism and socialism throughout Europe tainted the trade union movement... ... Entrepreneurship and Workaholism The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership The Labour... ...antithetical approaches are, by no means, new. One leads to socialism and communism, the other to corporatism and monopolies and the third to jungle... ... Entrepreneurship and Workaholism The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership The Labour...

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...rs of ethnic, religious, or racial groups, the old, the immigrant, and the poor. Communism - ostensibly a strict egalitarian idea - foundered bec... ...e, selected by a committee of philosophers - or bureaucrats, as was the case under communism. The market allows for the exchange of goods and serv... ...nomic relations. Ironically, dehumanizing totalitarian regimes, such as fascism and communism, were the first to grasp the emerging prominence of sc... ...imes coercive solutions backed by ideologies disguised as "scientific knowledge". Communism is a prime example, of course – but so is the "Free Ma... ...e - III. Entrepreneurship and Workaholism The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership... ...es reality. How right was he. Witness the USA and witness the miserable failure of communism. Nation Branding and Place Marketing I. The Ma... ...e Internet in Countries in Transition Leapfrogging Transition - Technology and Post Communism The Revolt of the Poor - Intellectual Property Rights L... ...: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) The implosion of communism was often presented - not least by Francis Fukuyama in... ...n alternative to the revolutionary belligerence of Marx and Engels. It sparred with communism - the virulent and authoritarian species of socialism ...

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...esses postmodernism, it was, in a political translation, the necrology of communism. Postmodernism promotes, as it announces, liberty, diversity and... ...ism takes advantage of the increasing value disengaged by the collapse of communism and of the liberties of the transition phase. On principle it is... ...und the middle- 27 class) has been reoriented in paradoxism - épater le communisme. Paradoxism propagates, presupposes and requests an absolute li... ...Contradictory one’s naturalness is the Balkan indolence intensified by the communism and punished just showing their annihilating mechanism. After th... ...ms-antipoems sagaciously refrains the rules of the slave work and life in communism, there are reached surrealist performances of automatic dictee, ... ...Bulletin resumes obsessively the diplomatic rhetoric practiced during the communism. The letter of Uncle Vasile, political refugee, discloses, throu...

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...e tried living in clans, slavery, greek democracy, feudalism, capitalism, communism, modern democracy, fascism, and even Nazism. w e have sought so...

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... of imbalances in various asset, banking, and financial markets. The collapse of Communism in Europe and Asia led to the emergence of a new middl... ...mbers of ethnic, religious, or racial groups, the old, the immigrant, and the poor. Communism - ostensibly a strict egalitarian idea - foundered bec... ...e, selected by a committee of philosophers - or bureaucrats, as was the case under communism. The market allows for the exchange of goods and servi...

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...itical mass of users). CEE is far from reaching this elusive point. When communism imploded in 1989, pundits were quick to spot the silver lining. T... ...ll very low by European standards, let alone American ones. The trauma of communism left them with decrepit and rarefied infrastructure, a prohibiti... ... in Countries in Transition Leapfrogging Transition - Technology and Post Communism The Revolt of the Poor - Intellectual Property Rights The De...

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...ism, despotism and anarchism, dictatorship and democracy, fascism and republic, communism and terrorism... At least, understanding why each one exists...

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...ar, and the so-called Peace Movement, made his blood boil. He didn't care about Communism or Poli­ tics or even which was side was right or wrong. Ry...

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... Locke and Rousseau: The Social Contractors 165 Chapter 19 Burke and Hegel: Conservatism and Absolute Idealism 174 Chapter 20 Marx and Mussolini: Communism and Fascism 183 PART 4 Economic Theory: An Introduction Chapter 21 Introduction to Ecomomic Theory 195 Chapter 22 Smith and Ricardo: Laisez Faire and Free Trade 202 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter...

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...al for its understanding (6 couples of most important wars in the former and 12 communist and post-communist rulers in the latter, the events of post-communism repeating the ones of communism). If a (post)-communist Russian leader has the same name as a former Russian tsar or prince, then a repetition of events takes place - the names Boris (Godunov) and Mikhail (Romanov) ...

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...... ...d sincerely that they saw any criticism of those positions as either godless communism or hippy digital anarchism. (Fre- quently, in fact, they clung ... ...esy or a smokescreen for some real, underlying agenda— which is identified as communism, anarchism, or, somewhat confusingly, both. This account smacks...

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... men want them. ―On another note, religious or societal priorities have given us the rationalized atrocities of Nazism, Zionism, and Commun...

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...s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 II How did we get there? 21 5 Marxism 23 6 V. Lenin’s/J. Stalin’s socialism and communism 25 6.1 Russian bolshevik turnover of 1917 and failure of Triple Entente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6.2 Dictatorship of proletariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6.3 ...