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Limited
Associations/Indexical Leads
- Allied powers:
- the victorious World War II coalition composed
of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain (joined by
France after the war for purposes of occupying Germany)
- Axis powers:
- the losing World War II coalition of Germany,
Italy, and Japan
- brotherhood and unity:
- slogan invoking the fraternity and united purpose
of various ethnic, national, and religious differences, the central
transcendent appeal of Tito's Yugoslavia
- capitalism:
- an economic system characterized by private
or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that determined
by private decisions, and by prices, production, and the distribution
of goods that are determined by competition in a free market
- Cold War:
- the historic period following World War II of
hostility and confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United
States, when they encouraged and fought proxy wars rather than engage
in a direct confrontation with each other
- communism:
- a theory advocating elimination of private property
and collective ownership of the means of production according to the
doctrine "from each according to his ability, to each according to his
need"
- death, social:
- the moment in which something is consciously
acknowledged as having ceased all vital functions, which can be either
before or after a physical death
- death, physical:
- the biological cessation of vital functions
- democratic authority:
- a form of governing that is minimally bicephalic
(with a ruling party and an opposition, where the place of Power (the
People as a unity) is empty, and where the People dissolve into a contingent
collection of atomized individuals in regularized ritual elections
- dissidents:
- label for those opposing authority in "actually existing socialist
states" of East-Central Europe during the Cold War
- East Germany:
- the German Democratic Republic, a socialist
state founded in 1949, dissolved in 1990
- Emperor:
- the sovereign or supreme authority of a monarchy
or empire
- end:
- the point at which something ceases to exist;
a termination or cessation
- ethnic:
- of or relating to large groups of people classed
according to common features such as cultural or biological origin,
language, and religion
- Fascism:
- a philosophy or system of government that advocates
or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, together with an ideology
of belligerent nationalism
- Father:
- the source of authority and locus of meaning;
the leader; the paternal authority
- Führer:
- a leader, used chiefly to describe Hitler, the
Nazi leader; has come to mean the exercise of tyrannical authority
- futurism:
- a movement in art, music, and literature begun
in Italy about 1909 and marked especially by an effort to give formal
expression to the dynamic energy and movement of mechanical processes
- genitor:
- the reproductive source; by the late 19th century,
in Europe, the biological father
- gulag:
- the penal system of the USSR, begun by Lenin,
then developed and perfected by Stalin, consisting of a network of labor
camps
- glasnost:
- openness or transparency, a term most frequently
heard to describe a new openess and leniency in the Soviet Union under
Gorbachev, just prior to its dismantling
- identification:
- a largely unconscious process whereby an individual
models thoughts, feelings, and actions based on similarity and difference
to an object choice
- imperialism:
- the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending
the power and domination of a polity by territorial expansion or by
gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other
areas
- mourning:
- a period of time following a loss marked by
grief and sorrow that redefines death as life-affirming
- Nazism:
- the doctrines of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party in the Third German Reich including the totalitarian
principle of government, state control of all industry, Aryan racial
superiority, and supremacy of the Führer
- pater:
- ecclesiastical or spiritual father
- patronage:
- the support or influence, frequently through
the distribution of economic resources or political benefits, of a special
guardian or protector
- perestroika:
- economic renewal and reorganization, particularly
used to refer to policies initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev prior to the
collapse of the Soviet Union
- republic:
- a polity in which supreme power resides in a
body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected representatives
responsible to them and governing according to law
- revolution:
- a fundamental change in political organization,
usually through the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler
and the substitution of another by the governed
- sacrifice:
- the act of offering something precious to a
supreme authority, or the killing of a victim
- socialism:
- an economic system premised on collective or
governmental ownership and control of the means of production and distribution
of goods
- Shinto:
- an indigenous religion of Japan consisting chiefly
in the cultic devotion to deities of natural forces and the veneration
of the Emperor as a descendant of the sun-goddess
- sons:
- potential inheritors of patriarchal authority
- sovereignty:
- supreme power, especially over a body politic
- soviet:
- an elected governmental council in a Communist
country
- Soviet Union:
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),
a union of 15 constituent republics bordering on eastern Europe and
Asia, replaced Czarist Russia in 1919, dissolved in 1991
- trauma:
- a temporally delayed and repeated suffering
of events that can only be grasped retrospectively
- trauma, national:
- delayed and repeated suffering of events having
to do with membership in an imagined community of the national type
- unity:
- the quality or state of not being multiple,
Oneness
- unification, German:
- refers both to the 1861 Bismark-orchestrated
unification of German principalities into a single German state, and
the 1990 dissolution of the (eastern) German Democratic Republic and
its absorption into the (western) Federal Republic of Germany
- vanguard of history:
- the doctrine that one held a position at the
forefront of historical change
- Wall:
- the Berlin Wall, built in 1962, dismantled in
1989-190, came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" dividing the Cold War
world into two
(c)
Prepared by John Borneman & Linda Fisher, February 1999
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