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this involve: a commitment to representative and participatory democracy; measures for income redistribution and regulation of the economy in the general...

Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία dēmokratía, literally "rule by people") is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting. In a direct...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated to USSR and SU or shortened to the Soviet Union, was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent...

Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly...

quest for freedom and democracy that tore down the old divisions and made possible the reunification of the continent. Joining the European Union was essential...

The Union is a term that has historically been used to refer to the United States of America, particularly during the American Civil War and specifically...

and Perpetual Union, created in 1777, was the first governing document of the United States of America. It established a perpetual "Union", with rules...

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an organization in the United States founded in 1983 for promoting democracy in other countries by promoting...

totalitarian system in the Soviet Union and in most of its satellites is breaking down, and our nations are looking for a way to democracy and independence. The first...

as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty eight...

springtime for dictators. Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (2020), p. 9 Let us say to the democracies: "We Americans...

"British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Following a referendum held on 23 June 2016 in which 51.9 percent of those...

General Secretary of the Communist Party and served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War...

quest for freedom and democracy that tore down the old divisions and made possible the reunification of the continent. Joining the European Union was essential...

render any vision of a geopolitical European Union obsolete. "Ukraine Holds the Future: The War Between Democracy and Nihilism" in Foreign Affairs September...

in realizing that the Soviet Union and communism itself would and should soon fall. Yeltsin embraced liberal democracy – yet it also suited him. He was...

free elections brought democracy to Nicaragua. Black and white South Africans cheered each other at the Olympics. The Soviet Union can only be found in...

ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and...

domestic supply. I will press for all of them. Gerald R. Ford, 1974 State of the Union Address Tyrants had been around for thousands of years; but George...

me for a world of democracy and peace. Response to advice from Ambassador William C. Bullitt to pursue a containment policy against the Soviet Union (1943)...