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Ideology
Karl Marx
Cold War
End of Cold War
Political Transition
100
both political ideology and political economy that eliminates the market
What is communism
100
The base
What is the name Marx chose for the system of economic production
100
Iron Curtain
What is boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War
100
The USSR fell under the leadership of this man
Who is Gorbachev
100
1991
What is the year the Soviet union collapsed
200
Russia 1917
Where and when did communism start?
200
Superstructure
What is what Marx called all non-Economic relations in society
200
Berlin Wall
What is the symbolic event of the end of the CW
200
this is the main challenge for the post communism systems
What is creating a capitalist market economy
200
privatization and marketization
What is transition policies from communism to capitalism
300
central committee
What is the body that serves as the weak "legislature" to the communist parties
300
a dictatorship of the minority
What is what Marx predicted immediately after the revolution
300
Korea War
What is the first post WWII proxy war fought against communism 1950
300
Central Europe, such as Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic
What is the countries where economic reform has been most successful
300
Glasnost and Perestroika
What is twin policies for Gorbachev's reform of Russia
400
the "Vanguard" party
What is the communist party (take the place of the strong proletariat that did not exist in Russia or China)
400
False consciousness
What is Mrax's explanation why we are blind to exploitation
400
this is the reason for the war in Vietnam
what is containment of spread of communism
400
Gulf War
What is the first war fought after the end of the cold war
400
Estonia did this better than Ukraine
What is transitioning from communism
500
Nomenklatura
What is communist policy of vetting sensitive jobs by party
500
elimination of state and Utopia
What is Marx's prediction of eventual result of communism
500
Detente
What is What is CW policy between USSR and US to ease political tensions between them
500
Unipolar
What is the state of balance of power in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union
500
AL Qaeda in Afghanistan is an example of this
What is use of religion to fight communism