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Central and Eastern Europe
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Undergraduate 2
12/15/2009

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Prague Spring
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Dubcek, 1968, attempted liberalization of Czechoslovakia
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KOR
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Worker's Defense Committee, 1976, Poland, Defended workers arrested during labor unrest
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DeStalinization
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50s-60s, russia, krushchev deconstruct stalin's cult-like status in soviet
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Goulash Communism
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Hungarian form of communism, 1970, had a much healthier, consumer based economy, not stalinist economics
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Glasnost
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Russia, Gorbachev, 1980s, transparency of gvm't activity, freedom of speech, decrease corruption
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Era of Stagnation
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Brezhnev, Russia, slowing of economic and social growth in the 70s, very little advancement, shortage of consumer products
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Velvet Revolution
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Havel, 1989, Czechoslovakia, nonviolent transition from communism
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Dayton Accord
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Yugoslavian leaders, Dayton Ohio, 1995, peace treaty ending war in bosnia-herzegovina, rotating presidency
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Josip Tito
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President of Yugoslavia, 1940s-1980, architect of second yugoslavia, managed racial tensions well
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Kristallnacht
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anti-jewish riot in germany, 1938, transition from economic/social oppression to violent oppression
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New Thinking
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Gorbachev, Soviet Union, late 1980s, improved relations with the west and western leaders, pull out of afghanistan, german reunification, led to fall of communism
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Anti-Politics
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Havel, Czechoslovakia, 1977, related to Charter 77, moral objection to gov't, act as if you life in a free society
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Alyoshka
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Solzhenitsyn, religious man, very selfless, slept in bunk near Ivan, led to Ivan's selflessness towards end of book, spirituality
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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Russia, 1968, messing with socialism in a country is an affront to all socialist countries, justifies invasion of czechoslovakia after 1968 prague spring, other meddling
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Perestroika
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Gorbachev, soviet union, 1987, market economy, fall of communism
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Ceausescu
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Romanian communist dictator, 60s-89, had independent foreign policy that wasn't too offensive to strict stalinists, body shown on tv when he died
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Ethnic Cleaning
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Yugoslavia, early 1990s, removal of croats from their homes during civil war
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Charter 77
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Havel, Czechoslovakia, 77-80s, manifesto for human rights, opposition to communism
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Tiurin (Solzenesky)
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Ivan's squad leader, in gulags for 19 years, knows how to manipulate system, hand picks ivan for his squad
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