Fall of Communism terms

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Vi Lenin

The leader of the Russian Revolution and the first Communist leader.

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Karl Marx

The German who wrote the communists manifesto.

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Perestroika

The policy of changing the Russian system to be more capitalist and democratic. (Restructuring Russia).

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Lech Walesa

The leader of the Polish solidarity unit and later their president.

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Glasnost

The policy of loosening the control of communism. (means openness).

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Bourgeois

The ruling class according to Marx.

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Proletariat

The working class according to Marx.

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Summit

A meeting of world leaders. 

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Satellite nation

 A country that is controlled by one another.

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 INF Treaty

The agreement to limit the type of number of nuclear weapons.

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USSR

The Soviet Union

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Bolsheviks

Were the group; that brought communism to the world. 

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Berlin Wall

A symbol of the communist and the free world. 

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Boris Yeltsin

The Russian leader who forced the reforms that led to the fall of communism.

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Detente

A period of peace or leasoning of tension between the superpowers.

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Commonwealth of Independent States

The confederation of some of the countries of the old soviet union. 

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