Concepts

7 concepts, A to Z.

B

Bolshevik party organisationThe centralised, disciplined organisation and 1917 tactics of the Bolshevik party, which Lenin named as the condition of its success.

I

In God We Trust 30 Jul 1956 –Official national motto of the United States since 1956.
Individual investor sentimentBullish views of self-directed individual investors, widely shared on social media in early 2021.

P

Packet switchingWay of sending data through a network in separate blocks, or packets, each routed on its own and reassembled at the destination.

S

Soviet state atheismSoviet policy that sought to eliminate religion and promoted atheism.
Strategic Defense Initiative 23 Mar 1983 –Reagan administration program, announced on 23 March 1983, to research a missile defense system.

U

Union republics' right to secedeThe formal right of each Soviet republic to leave the Union, written into the 1922 Union Treaty and later Soviet constitutions.