Commune can refer to various things: commune (subnational entity) of various European and African countries Commune in France, comprises cities, towns, and villages medieval commune, a social organization of the European Middle Ages Mir (social), a village community in czarist Russia A kibbutz, an Israeli collective community commune (intentional community) People's commune, an administrative division of China The Paris Commune (French Revolution), the governm ...

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Outside of South Asia, communalism is a modern term that describes a broad range of social movements and social theories which are in some way centered upon the community. Communalism can take the form of communal living or communal property, among others. Communalism is sometimes said to put the interests of the community above the interests of the individual, but this is usually only done on the principle that the community exists for the benefit of the individuals who participate in it, so the best way to serve the interests ...

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History of communism Schools of communism Marxism · Leninism Trotskyism · Maoism Council communism Religious communism Communist parties Communist International World Communist Movement Communist revolution World revolution Communist states The Soviet Union People's Republic of China Cuba · Vietnam Laos · North Korea Related subjects Socialism Planned economy Historical mater ...

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• Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Communism - Criticism of communism
• Communism - Comparing Communism to communism
• Communism - Schools of communism
• Communism - Organizations and people

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Communism - Soviet Marxism. In Russia, the 1917 October Revolution was the first time any party with an avowedly Marxist orientation, in this case the Bolshevik Party, obtained state power. The assumption of state power by the Bolsheviks generated a great deal of practical and theoretical debate within the Marxist movement. Marx believed that socialism and communism would be built upon foundations laid by the most advanced capitalist development. Russia, however, was one of the poorest countries in Europe with an ...

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A community is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. The individual living beings can be plant or animal; any species; any size. What characterizes a community is sharing interaction in many ways. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs and a multitude of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the degree of adhesion within the mixture, but the definitive driver of community is that all individual subjects in the mix have something in common. This is ...

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• Community - The nature of community
• Community - The context of community
• Community - The processes of community
• Community - Problems of community
• Community - The sense of community
• Community - The spirit of community

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The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications or communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics. In geography, communications are the physical routes (roads, rivers, canals, railways, etc.) travelled by people in order to interact with each other. See transport. In telecommunication, the term communications has the following meanings: Information transfer, among us ...

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Communication is the process of exchanging information, usually via a common protocol. "Communication studies" is the academic discipline focused on communication forms, processes and meanings, including speech, interpersonal and organizational communication. "Mass communication" is a more specialized academic discipline focused on the institutions, practice and effects of journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations and related mediated communication directed at a large, undifferentiated or segmented audience. Including:

• Communication - Forms and components of human communication
• Communication - Communication technology
• Communication - Communication barriers
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Communalness, as suggested by Robert A. Freitas Jr., is a level of an emergent phenomen which originates from Electronic sentience, and represents a broader mode of thinking than just normal consciousness. While consciousness is limited to the individual, communalness describes a complex organization of numerous individuals which on a higher level is tightly connected to each other. Such an organization would maybe have the same intimate awareness of its own existence as a whol ...

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A commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property (as opposed to communities that only share housing). The best known communes in the modern world are the kibbutzim of Israel. There are also many communes currently active outside Israel, where they are often referred to as egalitarian communities. Benjamin Zablocki categorized communes this way: Eastern religious communes Christian communes Psychological communes (based on myst ...

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• Commune intentional community - Bibliography
• Commune intentional community - External link

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History of communism Schools of communism Marxism · Leninism Trotskyism · Maoism Council communism Religious communism Communist parties Communist International World Communist Movement Communist revolution World revolution Communist states The Soviet Union People's Republic of Chi ...

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• Council communism - History of Council Communism
• Council communism - Council Communism within the Soviet Union
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Community centres are public locations where members of a community may gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole community or for a specialised group within the greater community. Examples of community centres for specific groups include: Lesbian and Gay community centres, Christian community centres, Islamic community centres, Jewish community centres, Youth clubs etc. There are also centres for a specific purpose, b ...

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Animal communication is any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. The study of animal communication, called zoosemiotics (distinguishable from anthroposemiotics, the study of human communication) has played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and the study of animal cognition. Animal communication - Intraspecies vs. interspecies communication. The sender and receiver of a communication may ...

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• Animal communication - Intraspecies vs. interspecies communication
• Animal communication - Interspecies communication
• Animal communication - Prey to predator
• Animal communication - Predator to prey
• Animal communication - Symbiotic species
• Animal communication - Human/animal communication
• Animal communication - Intraspecies communication
• Animal communication - Forms of communication
• Animal communication - Functions of communication
• Animal communication - Evolution of communication
• Animal communication - Communication and understanding
• Animal communication - Animal communication and human behaviour
• Animal communication - Animal communication and linguistics
• Animal communication - External link

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In telecommunication, the term communications deception has the following meanings: 1. Deliberate transmission, retransmission, or alteration of communications to mislead an adversary's interpretation of the communications. 2. Use of devices, operations, and techniques with the intent of confusing or misleading the user of a communications link or a navigation system. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from the National Information Systems Security Glossary and from the Department of Defense Dic ...

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Community health is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people with shared characteristics. The health characteristics of a community are often examined using geographic information system (GIS) software and public health datasets. Some projects, such as InfoShare or GEOPROJ combine GIS with existing datasets, allowing the general public to examine the chara ...

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Community Development is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities. Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people, with the skills they need to advocate on their own behalf improve their lives, and provide communities with access to resources. By understanding co ...

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A moral community is a group of people drawn together by a common interest in living according to a particular moral philosophy. Moral communities are typically associated with a religion and advocate that religion's conception of a good life. The congregation of a church, synagogue, or mosque is typical. However, some moral communities, such as the Fellowship of Reason, are secular and advocate a secular ethics. Category: Ethics ...

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Community ecology is the study of the distribution, abundance, demography, and interactions between populations of coexisting species. It is part of the division of ecology known as synecology that studies the organization of ecosystems specifically at the level of the biotic community (or biocoenosis). Community ecology focuses on relationships between species, including the study of food webs, energy flow, and nutrient flow. Odum (1959, p. 8) considered that synecology should be divided into population ...

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The UKUSA Community is an alliance of English-speaking nations led by the United States and United Kingdom for the purpose of gathering intelligence via signals intelligence. The UKUSA constituent agencies are: Australia - Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) Canada - Communications Security Establishment (CSE) New Zealand - Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) United Kingdom - Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) United States - National Security Agency (NSA) One role of ...

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Community councils (CCs) are the most local official representative bodies in Scotland and Wales. They are equivalent to Parish councils in England. In Scotland, their only statutory role is to communicate local opinion to larger bodies of government. Members are chosen every four years. They are elected to represent the entire community council area. If there are no more candidates than seats, no election needs to be held. If there are less than half as many candidates as seats, the community council shall not function ...

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• Community council - Community councils in Wales
• Community council - Community councils in Scotland

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