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| 358221801 | collectivization | creation of large state-run farms replacing individual holdings; allowed mechanization of agriculture and more efficient control over peasants. | 0 | |
| 358221802 | Comintern | Communist International, an organization under dominance of the USSR; designed to encourage the spread of communism in the rest of the world. | 1 | |
| 358221803 | five-year plans | Stalin's plans to hasten Soviet industrialization; constructed massive factories for heavy industries at the expense of consumer goods. | 2 | |
| 358221804 | glasnost | term meaning openness; Gorbachev policy opening the opportunity to criticize the government. | 3 | |
| 358221805 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | initiated in 1921 by Lenin; combined the state establishing basic economic policies with individual initiative; allowed food production to recover. | 4 | |
| 358221806 | perestroika | term meaning economic restructuring; Gorbachev policy for the economic rebuilding of the USSR by allowing more private ownership and decentralized economic control. | 5 | |
| 358221807 | Politburo | 20-member executive committee of the Communist Party. | 6 | |
| 358221808 | Sputnik | first manned spacecraft in 1957; initiated a space race with the United States. | 7 | |
| 358221809 | socialist realism | Soviet effort to replace Western in literature and the arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses. | 8 | |
| 358221810 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement formed in the 1970s under Lech Walesa; challenged Sovietdominated rule of Poland; later a dominant force in independent Poland. | 9 |
