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Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators ...
First, it must be noted that even from a formal democratic standpoint, this was far from a “free” election. The only recognized political party is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.
The unusual experience, added to his academic background, enables the author to answer such timely, passionately controversial questions as: What do Russian spokesmen mean by Soviet democracy?
a rigid cultural orthodoxy instead of democratic tolerance and diversity. Since 1917 the Soviet Union has given covert political training and assistance to Marxist-Leninists in many countries.
The Soviet Union’s first president ... relevant today and both society and the state must guard the principles of democracy. "Defending the principles of democracy and the rule of law and ...
will unfold in the struggle for the regeneration and development of Soviet democracy. The bureaucracy replaced the soviets as class organs with the fiction of universal electoral rights—in the ...
In June 1961 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened ... in establishing an autocratic regime than he did in promoting democracy. He consolidated power among his family members and refused ...
Mamdani, who is currently polling second behind frontrunner Andrew Cuomo ahead of the June Democratic Party primary ... who said it would create “Soviet” markets where customers would have ...
The US has blocked funding for media, democracy, and anti-disinformation programs in several post-Soviet countries, according ...