PWHCE - Eastern Europe

For the purposes of this category, "Eastern Europe" includes all parts of Europe which were part of the Soviet Bloc, taking in the Balkans (not including Greece), Central Europe and the Baltic States, along with Eastern Europe proper (Byelorussia, the Ukraine and Moldova) and Russia.
Pages on Eastern Europe Section

Eastern European Media Links
Talk: Will the Expected Outcomes of the Orange Revolution Translate into Reality? - Stefan Romaniw on the Ukraine. 30^th March 2005.
Central Europe
- The Polish Corruption Scandal and the 2004 US Presidential Election - article by Jaroslaw Suplacz
Russia

This brief glossary of Russian word parts has been compiled as a basic starting vocabulary in Russian (or Eastern European) political vocabulary - these are words which commonly crop in names of organisations, and so on. For example, using the table, it can easily be determined that Narodnaya Volya means People's Will.

Some of these words crop up surprisingly frequently in Russian political history.

Brief guide to Russian/Slavic words or word parts:
Note: this table has been compiled as a rough guide; I do not speak Russian.

bolshevik	majority (Social Democrat faction)	narodny	national/people's
boyar	noble (of ancient clan)	novi, Novaya	new
duma	thought, idea, council. Russian Parliament.	Okhrana	tsarist secret police
dvoriane	landed nobility	perestroika	restructuring
glasnost'	literally 'voice-ness' commonly translated as 'openness'.	pravda	truth (Soviet paper)
i	and	rabochi	worker
iskra	spark (name of menshevik paper)	soviet	committee
izvestiya	information, news, tidings	soyuz	union
kamera	box (Operational and Technical Directorate)	svoboda	freedom
menshevik	minority (social democrat faction)	tovarishch	comrade
mir	peace/World	v	preposition: to, for, on, at.
muzhik	peasant	volya	will
narod	nation/people	zemlya	land

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