political backwardness
1Christopher Hitchens's political views — Contents 1 First principles 2 Marxism 3 The American Revolution 4 …
2Berlin Wall — For the chess opening variation, sometimes known as Berlin Wall, see Berlin Defence. View from the West Berlin side of graffiti art on the wall in 1986. The wall s infa …
3Republikflucht — ( de. flight from the republic) and Republikflüchtling(e) ( de. fugitives from the republic) were the terms used by authorities in the German Democratic Republic (GDR East Germany) to describe the process of and the person(s) leaving the Soviet… …
4Ian Lustick — Ian Steven Lustick (born 1949) is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East.Lustick completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a dissertation titled Arabs… …
5Romanian general election, 1946 — report cited by Petre Ţurlea.] The Romanian general election of 1946 was a general election held on November 19, 1946, in Romania. Officially, it was carried with 79.86% of the vote by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), its allies inside the… …
6United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution — United States in the Mexican Revolution Part of the Mexican Revolution …
7international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
8Mandal Commission — The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to identify the socially or educationally backward. [1] It was headed by Indian parliamentarian Bindheshwari… …
9Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
10Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
