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From independence in 1947 until 1991, successive governments followed Soviet model and promoted protectionist economic policies, with extensive Sovietization, state intervention, demand-side economics, natural resources, bureaucrat driven enterprises and economic regulation. This is characterised as dirigism, in the form of the Licence Raj.
Sovietization. Before World War II, the Baltic nations were strongly oriented to-ward the West through close economic, political, cultural, and religious ties. These ties were re-enforced by large numbers of emigrants living in the United States who kept in close touch with relatives and friends. At the end of hostilities in 1945, many Baltic na-
The Georgian affair of 1922 ( Russian: Грузинское дело) was a political conflict within the Soviet leadership about the way in which social and political transformation was to be achieved in the Georgian SSR. The dispute over Georgia, which arose shortly after the forcible Sovietization of the country and peaked in the latter part ...
The Republic of Mountainous Armenia (Armenian: Լեռնահայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն Leřnahayastani Hanrapetutyun), also known as simply Mountainous Armenia (Լեռնահայաստան Leřnahayastan), was an anti-Bolshevik Armenian state roughly corresponding with the territory that is now the present-day Armenian provinces of Vayots Dzor and Syunik, and some parts of the ...
The Armenian-Azerbaijani war (1918–1920) [a] was a conflict that took place in the South Caucasus in regions with a mixed Armenian - Azerbaijani population, broadly encompassing what are now modern-day Azerbaijan and Armenia. It began during the final months of World War I and ended with the establishment of Soviet rule.
Decommunization came to refer to government policies of limiting the participation of former communist officials in politics. This should not be confused with lustration which is the procedure of scrutinizing holders or candidates for public offices in terms being former informants of the communist secret police .
e. The Communist International ( Comintern ), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [3] [4] [5] The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress in 1920 to "struggle by all available means ...
