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- Solidarity
- Polish anti-Comm movement
- Communal apartment
- multiple families in single apartment during housing crisis, Stalin, expected to spy on those they lived with
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- radical Russian singer, bard, recorded underground, recognized actor
- Viktor Tsoi
- actor/lead singer of Kino, worked as furnace-stoker even after glasnost
- Prague Spring
- Dubcek, "socialism with a human face", loosening of repressive laws of Prague, put down by Soviet tanks
- Jan Palach
- student, committed suicide by burning himself to death in political protest during Prague Spring, wanted to wake up his countrymen
- Vaclav Havel
- first prez of Czech Republic
- Prague Spring
- Dubcek, socialism with a human face, loosening of repressive laws of Prague, brought down by Soviet tanks
- Vladimir Bukovsky
- psychiatrist, documented psychiatric abuse
- Andrei Sinyavsky
- aka Abram Terz, author, connections betw. Comm and Christianity
- Kosovo
- Serbian landmark, Albanian population
- Chernobyl
- Ukr and Belarus
- Blatnaya pesnya/shanson
- music genre focusing on urban underclass (ex: vysotsky)
- Sergei Bodrvo, Jr.
- played Danila in Brother
- Peredvizhniki
- promotion of realistic Russian art
- Pavlik Morozov
- 13 yrs old, martyr of Soviet state
- collectivization
- communal farms
- dekulakization
- SU stripped wealthier peasants of prop and deported them
- Holodomor
- 1932
- Kolyma
- Siberian forced labor camp; poli prisoners
- Varlam Shamalov
- wrote in prison, became orderly
- Punished peoples
- deportation of entire ethn groups for being "Nazi conspirators" - 31 mill
- Munich Pact
- Nazi/some Allies agreement to annex Czecho
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- SU/Nazi nonaggression treaty, Poland split, Nazis broke it w/ Op Barbarossa
- Katyn Massacre
- 20,000 Polish troops killed in Katyn forest, SU blamed Nazis
- Babi Yar
- 1941 occu of Kiev, killed 33,000 local Jews
- Marshal Georgi Zhukov
- oversaw Battle of Berlin, which really won the war
- Blockade of Leningrad
- WWII, 900 days
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Polish poet/author, A Captive Mind, Nobel winner
- Ketman
- A Captive Mind
- Josip Broz Tito
- broke w/ Stalin & planned annex of Yugo and Alb, began non-aligned movement
- samizdat
- underground press
- NEP
- New Eco Policy, Lenin, reopen small businesses to save Rus economy