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Neo-Sovietism
Neo-Sovietism is the Soviet Union–style of policy decisions in some post-Soviet states, as well as a political movement of reviving the Soviet Union in the modern world or to reviving specific aspects of Soviet life based on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Some commentators have said that current Russian President Vladimir Putin holds many neo-Soviet views, especially concerning law and order and military strategic defense. Neo-Sovietism in Russian state policies According to Pamela Druckerman of ''The New York Times'', an element of neo-Sovietism is that "the government manages civil society, political life and the media". According to Matthew Kaminski of ''The Wall Street Journal'', it includes efforts by Putin to express the glory of the Soviet Union in order to generate support for a "revived Great Russian power in the future" by bringing back memories of various Russian accomplishments that legitimatized Soviet dominance, including the Soviet victory against Nazi Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essence Of Time
Essence of Time (russian: Суть времени, Sut' vremeni) is a Russian political movement founded and led by political scientist, philosopher, and theater director Sergei Kurginyan. Principles The movement's ideology is a mixture of communism with Russian patriotic elements. Its principles are explained in ''The manifesto of the movement "Essence of Time"''. The manifesto states that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a tragedy and that the objective of the movement is to restitute the USSR in a better and more capable form. According to Kurginyan, capitalism is inherently incompatible with Russian historical and cultural heritage. Kurginyan states that, since the fall of the USSR in 1991 "capitalism in Russia has not built anything, and destroyed everything", but that after 20 years Russia is starting to "wake up". The movement is grounded in modern philosophy and incorporates the ideas of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Erich Fromm, Antonio Gramsci, Alexander Bogdanov, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nostalgia For The Soviet Union
The social phenomenon of nostalgia for the era of the Soviet Union (russian: links=no, Ностальгия по СССР, Nostal'giya po SSSR), can include its politics, its society, its culture, its superpower status, or simply its aesthetics. Such nostalgia occurs among people in Russia and other post-Soviet states, as well as among people born in the Soviet Union but long since living abroad, and even among Communists and Soviet sympathizers from elsewhere in the world. It is associated with Soviet patriotism. In 2004, the television channel Nostalgiya, its logo featuring stylized hammer-and-sickle imagery, was launched in Russia. Polling Ever since the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, annual polling by the Levada Center has shown that over 50 percent of Russia's population lamented its collapse, with the only exception to this being in the year 2012 when support for the Soviet Union dipped below 50 percent. A 2018 poll showed that 66% of Russians regret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federation, federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, fifteen national republics; in practice, both Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, its economy were highly Soviet-type economic planning, centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1995)
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (russian: Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия (большевиков)), (''Vsesoyuznaya Kommunystycheskaya partiya'' ВКП(б)) is a communist party operating in the former Soviet Union. ВКП(б) was formed in 1995, following a split from the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991) The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB; russian: Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия большевиков; ВКПБ; ''Vsesoyuznaya kommunisticheskaya partiya bolshevikov'', ''VKPB'') is an Anti-revisio ... (VKPB). The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party is Alexander Lapin. The central publication of ВКП(б) is ''Bolshevistskaya Pravda''. References Communist parties in Russia Neo-Sovietism Political parties established in 1995 Transnational political parties {{Russia-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (2001)
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 2001 after disagreements between Oleg Shenin and Gennady Zyuganov over the creation of a united communist party of the Union of Belarus and Russia. It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009. Leaders * Oleg Shenin (21 July 2001 – 28 May 2009; as Chairman) * Vladimir Berezin Vladimir Berezin (born 19 January 1941) is a Russian former swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event h ... (20 March–16 July 2010; as First Secretary) * Sergey Alexandrov (acting 21 July 2010; official from 20 November 2010–present) Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (1992)
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, ''Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza''; short: КПСС, ''KPSS'') is a political party led by Sergei Skvortsov operating in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The party was founded in 1992 at the so-called 29th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which among other actions excluded former President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ... Mikhail Gorbachev from the newly formed party. It claims to be the inheritors of the legacy of the original Soviet Communist Party and among its goals states the restoration of the Soviet Union. The party has launched several front groups, such as the All-Russian Committee f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a left-wing nationalist and communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. It is the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia. The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League. The CPRF can trace its origins to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which was established in 1898 and the party split in 1903 into a Menshevik (minority) and Bolshevik (majority) faction; the latter, led by Vladimir Lenin, is the direct ancestor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and is the party that seized power in the October Revolution of 1917. After the CPSU was banned in 1991 by then–Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt, the CP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Communist Workers' Party Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU; russian: Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза; РКРП-КПСС; ''Rossiyskaya kommunisticheskaya rabochaya partiya v sostave Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza'', ''RKRP-KPSS'') is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Russia. It is considered the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001). The RCWP-CPSU is led by Viktor Tyulkin, who was co-chairman with Anatolii Kriuchkov until the latter died in 2005). It publishes a newspaper called ''Trudovaja Rossija'' (; ''Working People's Russia'') and the journal ''Sovetskij Sojuz'' (; ''Soviet Union''). The RCWP-CPSU claims to have supported all the biggest occupations and strikes in Russia. It has links to the Russian trade union Zashchita. As of 2007, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Kaminski
Matthew Kaminski (born November 11, 1971) is an American journalist working as the editor-in-chief of ''Politico.'' He is also the founding editor of ''Politico Europe'', which launched on April 21, 2015. He was previously a foreign correspondent, opinion writer, and editor at ''The Wall Street Journal''. Early life and education Kaminski was born in Warsaw, Poland, and emigrated to the United States in 1980. After graduating from Georgetown Day School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University and a Master of Arts in international politics from the University of Paris. Career While based in Kyiv from 1994 to 1997, Kaminski reported for the ''Financial Times'' and ''The Economist'' on the former Soviet Union. He subsequently joined ''The Wall Street Journal'' as Brussels correspondent, and in 2004 was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of columns about the European Union. In 2005, he became the editorial page editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in news and journalism, government, advertising, entertainment, education, and activism and is often associated with material which is prepared by governments as part of war efforts, political campaigns, health campaigns, revolutionaries, big businesses, ultra-religious organizations, the media, and certain individuals such as soapboxers. In the 20th century, the English term ''propaganda'' was often associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda has been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies. Equivalent non-English terms have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Movement
A political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values. Political movements are usually in opposition to an element of the status quo, and are often associated with a certain ideology. Some theories of political movements are the political opportunity theory, which states that political movements stem from mere circumstances, and the resource mobilization theory which states that political movements result from strategic organization and relevant resources. Political movements are also related to political parties in the sense that they both aim to make an impact on the government and that several political parties have emerged from initial political movements. While political parties are engaged with a multitude of issues, political movements tend to focus on only one major issue. Political movement theories Some of the theories behind social movements have also been applied to the emergence of political movements in sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (according to the party's statute). The party has been a member of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union since its establishment in 1993 as an umbrella organisation for all communist parties of the dissolved Soviet Union. Communist parties have a long history in Ukraine. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the party's predecessor Communist Party of Ukraine was banned in 1991, reforming into Socialist Party of Ukraine and other smaller parties. After being revived in 1993, the Communist Party was represented in the Ukrainian parliament from 1994 until the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election which resulted in national representation for Communists in Ukraine ending for the first time since 1918. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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