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| a Marxist term to describe the capitalist class |
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| a centrally planned and controlled economy. This kind of economy operated in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries |
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| theory developed by Marx and Engels that was adapted and used in such countries as China and the former Soviet Union |
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| Marxist notion that all societies based on inequality have uilt in flaws that will eventually lead to their destruction |
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| the excessive adulation of a single leader |
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| the Leninist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite |
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| the belief that change occurs in dramatic bursts from one type of society to another |
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| under Gorbachev, Soviet policies that opened up the political system and allowed for freedom of expression |
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| Marxist belief that the class divisions of a society determine everything else that matters |
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| the philosophy adopted by ruling communist parties, which combined Marxist analysis with Leninist organizational structures and tactics |
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| Marxist term designating the dominant way goods are created in a given society |
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| the Soviet system of lists that facilitated the CPSU's appointment of trusted people to key positions, adopted by other communist regimes |
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| the notion that the CPSU and other ruling communist parties dominated their entire political systems |
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| ill-fated programs to reform the Soviet economy in the late 1980s |
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| Marxist term for the working class |
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| the countries in eastern and central Europe that came under communist rule after WWII |
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| policies in formerly communist countries that envisage as rapid a shift to a market economy as possible |
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| a variety of beliefs in the pulic ownership of the means of production and an egalitarian distribution of wealth and income |
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| regime in which the state has all ut total power |
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| Lenin's faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party; later, anyone who subscribed to his views and/or organization |
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| the interwar coalition of Communist Parties directed from Moscow |
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| the period of upheavel in China from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s |
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| the shift away from Stalinist policies and practices beginning with Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956 |
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| general term used to denote the head of a Communist Party |
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| generic term used to descrie the leadership of Communist parties |
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| generic term used to denote the ureaucratic leaders of a Communist party |
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| the anti-Communist union formed in Poland in the 1980s |
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| Moscow-dominated organization of Communist parties around the world etween the two world wars |
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| symbolic heart of Chinese politics; site in Bejing of protests and a massacre in 1989 |
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| alliance that was the Communist world's equivelent of NATO |
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