Whap Ch. 30 Terms Flashcards

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