POLI 359 Lecture Notes - Gerontocracy, Parasitism, Absenteeism
17 Sep 2013
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Parasitism: don"t produce and linger on the job. Availability of goods for soviet workers to spend their money on is low. Neo-stalinism/ re-stalinization this program was implemented by. Post- khrushchev (legitimized his power within the su based on something that was known as the secret speech). Provided they do not threaten the monolithic style of the communist state. Put greater emphasis on the soviet citizen economy and less on military. Police state reinvigorated but not be as wide spread during stalin years and not as threatening to civilian lives. Gerontocracy - a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. Soviet-american d tente already been practiced under the. Start getting significant exchanges of information and people between the ussr and the west. All kinds of soviet professionals/politicians/citizens/ sports teams etc being undertaken what had been an unbridgeable divide.
