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First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–1964) and premier of the USSR (1958–1964), Khrushchev denounced Stalin and began de-Stalinization while retaining one-party rule. His government launched Sputnik and confronted the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Nikita Khrushchev leans further toward irreligious than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Nikita Khrushchev stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Nikita Khrushchev sits practically at the catalog median.
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Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation of the communist regimes of the 20th century.
Auguste Blanqui's doctrine that a conspiratorial revolutionary minority should seize power and rule through a provisional dictatorship that expropriates the bourgeoisie, with militant atheism and distrust of elections and of spontaneous mass action.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian34%
Leader of the Chinese Revolution and founder of the People's Republic, Mao adapted Marxism to the peasantry through people's war, collectivization, and the permanent mobilization of the masses in campaigns of radical transformation.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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