Socialism

Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and democratic control or workers' self-management of enterprises. It includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems. Social ownership can be public, collective, cooperative, or of equity. While no single definition encapsulates the many types of socialism, social ownership is the one common element. Socialists disagree about the degree to which social control or regulation of the economy is necessary, how far society should intervene and whether government, particularly existing government, is the …

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1 January 2017 English

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

under Josip Broz Tito developed its own form of socialism, while pursuing a non-aligned foreign policy. and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006) Rosenbaum, “Leisure Travel and Real Existing Socialism: New Research on Tourism in the Soviet Union and


1 January 2017 English

within the Czechoslovak Communist party, promised to create a newly democratic and humane form of socialism. The Czechoslovak reform program generated enormous excitement at home, but growing consternation

create a newly democratic and humane form of socialism. The Czechoslovak reform program generated enormous that they must work towards a higher form of ‘Socialism,’ yet to be defined, in which (hopefully) the a new, democratic model of socialism, sometimes referred to as “socialism with a human face.” At first Program, democratization was not a threat to socialism, but the only way it could evolve and grow.5 The Czechoslovakia, the students emphasized their support for socialism, but demanded reforms, including freedom of speech


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English

As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …

political repression, and a full-scale transition to socialism, by the spring of 1953 Walter Ulbricht, the leader de-Stalinization and tolerating different “paths to socialism,” as had been accepted by Khrushchev over Yugoslavia


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Bulgarian

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal political situation in Bulgaria. The documents cover meetings of the Bulgarian Central Committee and National Assembly concerning a new labour code, …

enhancing" the role • - the foundations of socialism c o d e must provide the and automat,on of background, to contributing to the building of real socialism in Bulgaria. 3. The likely result of all this those who fought Fascism, those who have built Socialism in the wake of the Revolution and those whofeve


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of documents concerning the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (K.S.?.) and the Czechoslovak government. Subjects discussed in the file include a conference of K.S.?. party secretaries; the sixth meeting …

to the creation of a truthful picture of real socialism in our country, influences our international even yield to bourgeois propaganda about even socialism undergoing a crisis". They complain", he says embitter people's lives, have not been caused by socialism or by the exacerbation of the international situation appreciate, as he concluded his speech, that "Socialism does not .just mean «[metallurgy, chemical and editor-in-chief o:,' the magazine "Questions of Peace and Socialism", is .also ^resait,, (Rude Pravo,p..I - full


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

reference to respect for the separate approaches to socialism of both countries. Development of economic relations increased productivity, and thereby consolidate socialism in the G D R . For his part Lopatynski "reported" FOR THE POLES IN THEIR STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE SOCIALISM: AND IN HIS SPEECH, AT THE DINNER GIVEN BY


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

of a fat volume of his speeches on "scientific socialism", has ensured him sanctification as a sort of and whether the recipe of outward support for socialism and 'progressive' movements but commonsense practical


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

rated. I ! anong extremists and open enemies of socialism, will be carefully I |t watched by us, as there


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

between rich and noor countries and between socialism and capitalism. Many new centres of power had


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning political relations between Albania and the United Kingdom. The documents cover discussions on the possible resumption of relations between the British and Albanian …

attained by oiir people in the construction of socialism and the Party's correct line in the foreign poflicy


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