Neue Ostpolitik
(de)
"new eastern policy": the normalization of relations between West Germany and East Germany (and Eastern Europe) starting in 1969
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the hopeful spirit of the 1970s German Neue Ostpolitik
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7 years ago
the hopeful spirit of the 1970s German Neue Ostpolitik
uncertain
7 years ago
sclerosis
(en)
a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features / becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt
115
The now sclerotic generation of obedient Soviet bureaucrats formed in the end of the Stalinist purges
notable
7 years ago
The now sclerotic generation of obedient Soviet bureaucrats formed in the end of the Stalinist purges
notable
7 years ago
Thermidorian
(en)
a French political group active during the French Revolution, which launched a coup d'état against the leaders of the Jacobin Club in 1794
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the necessary phase of "auto-Thermidorean restoration" in revolutionary sequence
unknown
7 years ago
the necessary phase of "auto-Thermidorean restoration" in revolutionary sequence
unknown
7 years ago
vertiginous
(en)
causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep
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their vertiginous self-recasting into capitalists and nationalists
uncertain
7 years ago
their vertiginous self-recasting into capitalists and nationalists
uncertain
7 years ago
comprador
(en)
person who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation; originally applied only to East Asia but now used in a Marxist sense to refer to other regions; from the Portuguese word for buyer
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the landlords and large comprador traders
unknown
7 years ago
the landlords and large comprador traders
unknown
7 years ago
Kemalist
(en)
of the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey, implemented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and defined by sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms designed to separate the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and embrace a Westernized way of living
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from the early example of Kemalist Turkey after 1918
unknown
7 years ago
from the early example of Kemalist Turkey after 1918
unknown
7 years ago
obscurantist
(en)
deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known
126
some particularly "obscurantist" or unpatriotic owners
notable
7 years ago
some particularly "obscurantist" or unpatriotic owners
notable
7 years ago
coltan
(en)
a dull black metallic ore from which the elements niobium and tantalum (used to manufacture tantalum capacitors, used in electronic products) are extracted; its mining has financed serious conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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blood diamonds or coltan
unknown
7 years ago
blood diamonds or coltan
unknown
7 years ago
Marxian
(en)
pertaining to Karl Marx and ideas he explicitly explored in his writings; differs from Marxist in that the latter includes ideas developed by others in the same vein of thought
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broadly informed by Marxian and Weberian traditions focusing on the structures of social power and conflicts
notable
7 years ago
broadly informed by Marxian and Weberian traditions focusing on the structures of social power and conflicts
notable
7 years ago
subproletarians
(en)
not a commonly-used term; most likely refering to households considered "lesser" than proletarian households in terms of socieconomic power
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the non-Russians and subproletarians in the Soviet republic
notable
7 years ago
the non-Russians and subproletarians in the Soviet republic
notable
7 years ago