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a system of government in which all goods and property are publically controlled
The year 1989 marked the fall of communism in Poland.
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Their earliest memories are not of easier lives under communism, but of Russian tanks rolling into Gori and towards the capital, Tbilisi.
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Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
It was first awarded in 1989 to Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland and leader of the country’s Solidarity movement in 1983 against communism during the Cold War.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Sep. 2024
From the 1960s until 1989, East Germany ran a huge doping operation, designed to establish communism's superiority.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 21 July 2024
Xi Jinping, on the other hand, continues to take communism’s legacy seriously.
—Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
But the fall of communism and subsequent geopolitical reorientation of the post-Cold War order forced the country to alter its economic and political relations.
—Charles Krusekopf, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2024
In the 1930s, church leaders campaigned against FDR, which evolved into an intense suspicion of communism.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
After the fall of communism in 1990, wine-producing towns such as Leskovik—located 180 miles from the capital of Tirana—were all but forgotten.
—Emily Lush, TIME, 25 July 2024
The 1960s were marked by international efforts to contain the spread of communism and heightened racial pressures at home.
—Silvia Solis, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
It was first awarded in 1989 to Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland and leader of the country’s Solidarity movement in 1983 against communism during the Cold War.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Sep. 2024
From the 1960s until 1989, East Germany ran a huge doping operation, designed to establish communism's superiority.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 21 July 2024
Xi Jinping, on the other hand, continues to take communism’s legacy seriously.
—Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
But the fall of communism and subsequent geopolitical reorientation of the post-Cold War order forced the country to alter its economic and political relations.
—Charles Krusekopf, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2024
In the 1930s, church leaders campaigned against FDR, which evolved into an intense suspicion of communism.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
After the fall of communism in 1990, wine-producing towns such as Leskovik—located 180 miles from the capital of Tirana—were all but forgotten.
—Emily Lush, TIME, 25 July 2024
The 1960s were marked by international efforts to contain the spread of communism and heightened racial pressures at home.
—Silvia Solis, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Communism
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Martinique’s contemporaneous Négritude movement made fruitful use of Surrealism alongside Marxism, colonial resistance, and an embrace of Blackness.Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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As purported truth-tellers seeking to advance society toward maximal gains, Great Men expose and combat political and existential threats, such as critical race theory and Marxism.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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In English class, some students might read Animal Farm as an allegory for Stalinism, while others see it as a story about talking animals.Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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And sometimes, this language which is used by the authorities could be compared with the language of Stalinism, the situation of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in terms of rhetoric, the absurdity of this rhetoric, and the absurdity of repressions.Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
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Smith writes that the idea of a Judeo-Christian tradition emerged in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s as a response to both homegrown and foreign antisemitism and fascism.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Oct. 2024
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In today’s newsletter, Susan B. Glasser on Trump and fascism.Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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Latine culture — with its traditional gender roles, values of collectivism and familia, and the lingering effects of colonization — makes embracing kink extra challenging.Bae Leche, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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This tendency has elements of both collectivism and individualism.Jessica DuLong, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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