While the term Ceauşism became widely used inside Romania, usually as a pejorative, it never achieved status in academia. This feature can be explained taking in view the largely crude and syncretic character of the dogma. Ceauşescu attempted the inclusion of his views in mainstream Marxist theory, to which he added his belief in a "multilaterally developed socialist society" as a necessary stage between the Marxist concepts of Socialist and Communist societies (a critical view reveals that the main reason for the interval is ...

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Nicolae Ceauşescu, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Early life and career, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Leadership of Romania, Nicolae Ceauşescu - The Pacepa defection, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Personality cult and authoritarianism, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Ceauşescu's statesmanship, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Foreign debt, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Leadership weaknesses, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Tensions grow, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Revolution, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Coup, Nicolae Ceauşescu - The end of Ceauşescu, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Other, Nicolae Ceauşescu - A rough sketch of Ceauşism, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Bibliography

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While the term Ceauşism became widely used inside Romania, usually as a pejorative, it never achieved status in academia. This feature can be explained taking in view the largely crude and syncretic character of the dogma. Ceauşescu attempted the inclusion of his views in mainstream Marxist theory, to which he added his belief in a "multilaterally developed socialist society" as a necessary stage between the Marxist concepts of Socialist and Communist societies (a critical view reveals that the main reason for the interval is ...

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Nicolae Ceauşescu, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Early life and career, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Leadership of Romania, Nicolae Ceauşescu - The Pacepa defection, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Personality cult and authoritarianism, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Ceauşescu's statesmanship, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Foreign debt, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Leadership weaknesses, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Tensions grow, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Revolution, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Coup, Nicolae Ceauşescu - The end of Ceauşescu, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Other, Nicolae Ceauşescu - A rough sketch of Ceauşism, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Selected published works, Nicolae Ceauşescu - Bibliography

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The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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• 20th century - Significant people
• 20th century - World leaders
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• 20th century - Aerospace pioneers
• 20th century - Spiritual figures
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• 20th century - Decades and years

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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. 1996 - Events. January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100. January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...

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• 1996 - June
• 1996 - July
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• 1996 - September
• 1996 - October
• 1996 - November
• 1996 - December
• 1996 - Environmental change
• 1996 - Unknown date
• 1996 - Births
• 1996 - Deaths
• 1996 - January-February
• 1996 - March-June
• 1996 - July-December
• 1996 - Nobel Prizes
• 1996 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1996 - Templeton Prize
• 1996 - Right Livelihood Award

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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. In the UK the first major 1980s fashion trend was sparked by the arrival of the New Romantics in the popular music charts in 1980. The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 is also considered to be a major turning point. In America, the decade was most poignan ...

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• 1980s - Music
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• 1980s - Film
• 1980s - Video Games
• 1980s - Others
• 1980s - People
• 1980s - Entertainers
• 1980s - Sports figures
• 1980s - Films
• 1980s - Television
• 1980s - Music

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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1] 1989 - Events. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assistant Austra ...

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• 1989 - February
• 1989 - March
• 1989 - April
• 1989 - May
• 1989 - June
• 1989 - July
• 1989 - August
• 1989 - September
• 1989 - October
• 1989 - November
• 1989 - December
• 1989 - Unknown Dates
• 1989 - Births
• 1989 - Deaths
• 1989 - January
• 1989 - February
• 1989 - March
• 1989 - April
• 1989 - May
• 1989 - June
• 1989 - July
• 1989 - August
• 1989 - September
• 1989 - October
• 1989 - November
• 1989 - December
• 1989 - Nobel Prizes
• 1989 - Templeton Prize
• 1989 - Right Livelihood Award

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1990 (MCMXC) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. 1990 - Events. January 3 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 4 - over 300 people were killed in a train accident in Ghotki pakistan. January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello, the man who led the coup against Dr Apolo Milton Obote's governmen ...

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• 1990 - March
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• 1990 - May
• 1990 - June
• 1990 - July
• 1990 - August
• 1990 - September
• 1990 - October
• 1990 - November
• 1990 - December
• 1990 - Births
• 1990 - Deaths
• 1990 - Nobel Prizes
• 1990 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1990 - Fields Medalists
• 1990 - Templeton Prize
• 1990 - Right Livelihood Award
• 1990 - Uncertain dates

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20th century - World leaders. Africa Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya Idi Amin, Uganda Nelson Mandela, South Africa Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Gamal Abdal Nasser, Egypt Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Julius Nyerere, Tanzania Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya Haile Selassie, Ethiopia Léopold Sédar Sengh ...

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20th century, 20th century - Overview, 20th century - Important developments events and achievements, 20th century - Science and technology, 20th century - Wars and politics, 20th century - Culture and entertainment, 20th century - Disease and medicine, 20th century - Natural resources and the environment, 20th century - Significant people, 20th century - World leaders, 20th century - Scientists, 20th century - Humanities, 20th century - Business, 20th century - Aerospace pioneers, 20th century - Spiritual figures, 20th century - Artists, 20th century - Music, 20th century - Film, 20th century - Writers and poets, 20th century - Sports figures, 20th century - Decades and years

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44°25′N 26°06′E Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti /bu.ku'reʃtʲ/) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′N 26°06′E, and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River. The city was first mentioned in 1459 and became the capital of Romania in 1862. Since then, it has gone through a variety of changes and has become the centre of the Romanian mass media, cul ...

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• Bucharest - Geography and climate
• Bucharest - Geography
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• Bucharest - Law and government
• Bucharest - Administration
• Bucharest - Justice system
• Bucharest - Crime
• Bucharest - History
• Bucharest - Treaties signed in Bucharest
• Bucharest - Demographics
• Bucharest - Economy
• Bucharest - Transport
• Bucharest - Culture
• Bucharest - Landmarks
• Bucharest - Visual arts
• Bucharest - Performing arts
• Bucharest - Music and nightlife
• Bucharest - Traditional culture
• Bucharest - Cultural events and festivals
• Bucharest - Architecture
• Bucharest - Historical architecture
• Bucharest - Communist architecture
• Bucharest - Modern architecture
• Bucharest - Education
• Bucharest - Media
• Bucharest - Sports
• Bucharest - Portrayal in film and fiction
• Bucharest - Notes

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Albania is a Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia and Montenegro in the north, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ionian Sea in the southwest. The country is an emerging democracy and is formally named the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë). Albania - History. Main articles: Illyria, Illyricum, Dalmatia, History of Albania. In the ar ...

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• Albania - Culture
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Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Ţepeş IPA: /'tsepeʃ/ in Romanian or Vlad the Impaler) (November/December, 1431 – December 1476) reigned as Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia in 1448, 1456 to 1462 and 1476. He was born in Sighişoara, a small town in Transylvania. He led an independent policy in relation to the Ottoman Empire. He is known in Turkish as Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince", and is ...

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• Vlad III Dracula - Background and family
• Vlad III Dracula - The life of Vlad III
• Vlad III Dracula - Alledged atrocities
• Vlad III Dracula - Anecdotal evidence
• Vlad III Dracula - Nine anecdotes
• Vlad III Dracula - The vampire myth and the Romanian attitudes

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Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. (His name is also sometimes given as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, the Spanish rather than Catalan form of his name.) Dalí's work is noted for its striking combination of bizarre dreamlike images with excellent draftsmanship and painterly skills influenced by the Renaissance masters. Dalí was an artist of great talent and imagination. He had a love of doing unusual ...

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Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. It was broadcast around the world, and is probably the most famous and successful American soap opera outside of the U.S. The series is probably best-known for the central character of J.R. Ewing, the vain, greedy, scheming, crass oil baron played by ...

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• Dallas TV series - Famous episodes
• Dallas TV series - Production details
• Dallas TV series - Cast of Characters
• Dallas TV series - Important secondary characters
• Dallas TV series - DVD releases
• Dallas TV series - Trivia

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Cult of personality is a term for what is perceived to be excessive adulation of a single living leader, especially a head of state. The term was coined by the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev in his 1956 "Secret Speech" denouncing Joseph Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. The phenomenon that Khrushchev described, however, is much older. A cult of personality differs from charismatic authority in that it has a negative connotation by definition, and is thus a pejorative term. It also differs fro ...

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The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance, was a military organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. It was established in 1955 to counter the perceived threat from the NATO alliance (which had been established in 1949). The creation of the Warsaw Pact was prompted by the integration of a "re-militarized" West Germany into NATO via ratification of the Paris Agreements. The Pact lasted throughout the Cold War until, following the col ...

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• Warsaw Pact - Post-Warsaw Pact

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From 1945 until 1990 Albania had a socialist government. The communist party was created in 1941. Enver Hoxha became the leader of this party. In 1985, Enver Hoxha died and Ramiz Alia took his place. Initially, Alia tried to follow in Hoxha's footsteps, but in Eastern Europe Mikhail Gorbachev had appeared in the Soviet Union with new policies (Glasnost and perestroika). The government was pressured by the US and Europe. His party won the election of 1991. In 1992 the general elections ...

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• History of Communist Albania - Consolidation of power and initial reforms
• History of Communist Albania - Albanian-Yugoslav tensions
• History of Communist Albania - Deteriorating relations with the west
• History of Communist Albania - Albania and the Soviet Union
• History of Communist Albania - Albania and China
• History of Communist Albania - The cultural and ideological revolution
• History of Communist Albania - The break with China and self-reliance
• History of Communist Albania - Transition to democracy
• History of Communist Albania - Reference

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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1967 - Events. 1967 - January. January 2 - Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong in England. January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddo ...

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• 1967 - June
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• 1967 - August
• 1967 - September
• 1967 - October
• 1967 - November
• 1967 - December
• 1967 - Unknown dates
• 1967 - Births
• 1967 - January
• 1967 - February
• 1967 - March
• 1967 - April
• 1967 - May
• 1967 - June
• 1967 - July
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• 1967 - December
• 1967 - Dates unknown
• 1967 - Deaths
• 1967 - January
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• 1967 - March
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• 1967 - May
• 1967 - June
• 1967 - July
• 1967 - August
• 1967 - September
• 1967 - October
• 1967 - November
• 1967 - December
• 1967 - Unknown date
• 1967 - Nobel Prizes

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December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. December 25 - Events. 274 - Roman emperor Aurelianus has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun. 800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. 1000 - Coronation of St. Stephen at Esztergom, held to be the founding day of the Hungarian Nation. 1066 - Coron ...

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• December 25 - Holidays and observances

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1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. 1918 - Events. 1918 - January-February. January 8 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. January 22 - Manitoba, Canada film censor board bans comedies January 24 - a decree of the Council of People's Com ...

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• 1918 - Unknown dates
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• 1918 - January-February
• 1918 - March-April
• 1918 - May-August
• 1918 - September-December
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Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà comarca close to the French border, in Catalonia (Spain), the son of the comfortable middle-class notary Salvador Dalí i Cusí and Felipa Domenech Ferres. Dalí's father, a lawyer who was a strict disciplinarian, was tempered by his wife who encouraged her son's drawing. Dalí had an older brother, also named Salvador, who died prior to Dalí’s birth. He ...

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Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí - Biography, Salvador Dalí - Dalí's politics, Salvador Dalí - Notable works, Salvador Dalí - Quotations, Salvador Dalí - Trivia

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