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  Czechoslovakia - LoveToKnow 1911
Czechoslovakia indeed is one of the richest states of Europe in mineral and health-giving waters, and possesses more than 200 watering places and health resorts.
In respect of Austria Czechoslovakia was animated by the desire to assist in relieving the economic situation of the country, while opposed both to the incorporation of Austria with Germany and to the foundation of a Danubian confederation.
Czechoslovakia, as already indicated, is not only an industrial State: it possesses at the same time a highly developed agriculture in which over 40% of the entire population is engaged, that is to say, some 5,700,000 persons are workers in some way or other connected with the land.
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 Agriculture Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming and ranching) is the process of producing food, feed, fiber, fuel and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals.
Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science.
Agriculture is cited as a significant adverse impact to biodiversity in many nations' Biodiversity Action Plans, due to reduction of forests and other habitats when new lands are converted to farming.
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 Agriculture of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The total land area of postwar Czechoslovakia was nearly 128,000 km², of which almost 68,000 km² was considered agricultural land.
In the mid-1980s, agricultural activity was spread throughout the country.
The performance of the agricultural sector improved markedly during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s.
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 13. Czechoslovakia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
However, Czechoslovakia earned a reputation as the most democratic nation in the region.
Because of the strength of Czechoslovak democracy, for example, the Czechoslovak Communist Party, which was founded in 1921, was allowed to develop fully as a mass-based party, differing significantly from those parties based on the Soviet model.
Since Czechoslovakia had coal and iron mines and modern brewing and textile industries, its economy was better balanced between industry and agriculture than that of any other country in this area.
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 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa (KSČ) was a political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992.
An important Slovak Communist Party functionary from 1943 to 1950, Husák was arrested in 1951 and sentenced to three years -- later to life imprisonment -- for "bourgeois nationalism" during the Stalinist purges of the era.
The quip in 1971, a half-century after the party's founding in Czechoslovakia, was "After fifty years, a party of fifty-year-olds." There was a determined effort to attract younger members to the party in the middle to late 1970s; one strategy was to recruit children of parents who were KSČ members.
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 Communist
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 Nicolae Ceausescu, 1918-1989
Communist official who was leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed in a revolution in December 1989.
A prominent member of the Romanian Communist youth movement during the early 1930s, Ceausescu was imprisoned in 1936 and again in 1940 for his Communist Party activities.
After the Communists' full accession to power in Romania in 1947, he first headed the nation's ministry of agriculture (1948-50), and from 1950 to 1954 he served as deputy minister of the armed forces with the rank of major general.
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 Czechoslovakia biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Czechoslovakia (Czech: Československo, Slovak: Česko-Slovensko/before 1990 Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period).
Czechoslovakia arose in October 1918 as one of the succession states of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I.
The Czechoslovakia national football team was a consistent performer in the international scene, with 8 appearances in the FIFA World Cup Finals, finishing in second-place in 1934 and 1962.
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 Encyclopedia: Economy of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the mid-1980s, Czechoslovakia was one of Eastern Europe's most industrialized and prosperous countries.
In the mid-1980s, Czechoslovakia had a highly industrialized economy, a fact reflected in the 1985 official statistics concerning production of the net material product of the country (the official measure of aggregate production).
The main difference is that while in market economies, decisions by individual consumers and producers tend automatically to regulate supply and demand, consumption and investment, and other economic variables, in most communist economies, these variables are determined by a small governing group and are incorporated in a national plan that has the force of law.
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 Economy of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Czechoslovakia, by contrast, was a small country that had already reached a high level of industrialization and was rather heavily dependent on foreign trade when the Soviet system was first imposed after World War II Plans and their implementation
Planners in postwar Czechoslovakia, for example, were thus able to expand the country's heavy industrial base as they wished.
It was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953 and lost its importance as the chief source of revenue only in the late 1960s, when other levies extracted funds from state enterprises.
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 Facts about agriculture of communist czechoslovakia
The total land area of postwar Czechoslovakia was nearly 12.8 million hectares, of which almost 6.8 million hectares were considered agricultural land.
In the mid-1980s, agricultural activity was spread throughout the country.
Agriculture of Communist Czechoslovakia definition of Agriculture of...
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 The Soviet Union Disintegrates
The Communist Party in Hungary recognized the rising in 1956 as legitimate, and the Communist leader who supported Hungarian national aspirations then, Imre Nagy, who had been executed by Khrushchev's regime, was rehabilitated and given a proper burial.
It was a demonstration too massive for the Communist regime, and the regime responded with a pledge of free elections within a year.
The Communist Party was split between reformers and conservatives, and both were critical of Gorbachev, who was trying to steer a middle ground between state control of the economy and free enterprise.
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 Salami tactics in Czechoslovakia
In the meantime, Czechoslovakian Communists, led by Klement Gottwald, had set up a rival government-in-exile in Moscow; Stalin also created a Czechoslovakian Independent Army Corps as part of the Russian Army - by 1945 it had 60,000 men (who were, of course, communists).
The Communist used their position in the Ministries of Interior Affairs and Defence to place Communist loyalists into key positions in the police and army.
Czechoslovakia, he was told, was the last country where the Communist victory was not yet explicit.
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 wiki/Economy of Communist Czechoslovakia Definition / wiki/Economy of Communist Czechoslovakia Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Czechoslovakia, by contrast, was a small country that had already reached a high level of industrialization and was rather heavily dependent on foreign trade when the Soviet system was first imposed after World War II.
In the late 1940s, Czechoslovakia was one of the most industrialized countries in the world, and the quality of its pr...
see: Agriculture of Communist Czechoslovakia Characteristics as of mid-1980s Basic Facts The total land area of postwar Czechoslovakia was nearly 128,000 km², of which almost 68,000 km² was considered agricultural land.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Czechoslovakia, of all the East European countries, entered the postwar era with a relatively balanced social structure and an equitable distribution of resources.
Most women in Czechoslovakia worked, a reflection in part of the labor shortage and in part of the socialist belief that employment for women is the answer to inequality between the sexes.
Although women in Czechoslovakia have had a long history of employment (they were over one-third of the labor force in 1930), the postwar surge in female employment has been truly dramatic.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Communist regime in Kabul collapsed in 1992.
Former agricultural workers, earlier residents in the islands, were relocated primarily to Mauritius but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973.
Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime.
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 Articles - Economic history of communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Agriculture also remained in private hands, and farming was still largely a family affair.
Agriculture had been a weak part of the economy throughout the 1950s, consistently failing to reach planned output targets, and the minimal reforms of 1958-59 had done little to alter the situation.
Only agriculture was to grow at a rate slower than that of the previous plan period; with a total increase of 6.9 percent, it would average just over 1 percent growth annually.
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 Post-War Czechoslovakia
Another one-third was communist, leaving one-third of the population presumably sympathetic to the Czechoslovak Republic.
Czechoslovakia became a satellite of the Soviet Union; it was a founding member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) in 1949 and of the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
Major causes of the decline were the diversion of labor from agriculture to industry (in 1948 an estimated 2.2 million workers were employed in agriculture; by 1960, only 1.5 million); the suppression of the kulak, the most experienced and productive farmer; and the peasantry's opposition to collectivization, which resulted in sabotage.
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 Encyclopedia: Agriculture of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The total land area of postwar Czechoslovakia was nearly 128,000 km², of which almost 68,000 km² was considered agricultural land.
Urbanization and industrialization had slowly but steadily reduced the amount of agricultural land; it declined by over 6,000 km² between 1948 and the late 1970s.
Planning authorities did not expect that this activity would be the main source of income for small farmers, and they limited the land used for this purpose primarily to that reclaimed from currently unused, somewhat marginal agricultural land, estimated at 1,000 km² in 1984.
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 Economic History of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The country became an important supplier of machinery and arms to other communist countries.Foreign trade with noncommunist countries dropped sharply (in part because of trade controls imposed in those countries); tradewith communist countries increased from 40 percent of the country's total in 1948 to 70 percent a decade later.
Agriculture had been a weak part of the economy throughout the 1950s, consistently failing to reach planned outputtargets, and the minimal reforms of 1958-59 had done little to alter the situation.
Both agriculture and industry and productivity increasefailed to meet planned growth targets Problems in agriculture were in part a result of drought (1976) and severe winter andspring flooding (1979).
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 Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak : Československo), former country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period).
Three years later the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized power (1948 – 1989) and the country came under the influence of the Soviet Union.
The Czechoslovakia national football team was a consistent performer in the internationalscene, with 8 appearences in the FIFA World Cup Finals,finishing in second-place in 1934 and 1962.
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 Industry of Communist Czechoslovakia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the late (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s, Czechoslovakia was one of the most industrialized countries in the world, and the quality of its products was comparable to that of other industrialized countries.
In the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, Czechoslovakia was — except for the Soviet Union — Eastern Europe's only builder of heavy-duty (Nuclear energy regarded as a source of electricity for the power grid (for civilian use)) nuclear power equipment and was a joint supplier of such products to other Comecon members.
For export, Czechoslovakia specialized in smaller units, while the Soviet Union supplied the larger capacity (An electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit) reactors.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
Following a five-year struggle, Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; over 1 million displaced people died from execution or enforced hardships.
Cuba's Communist revolution, with Soviet support, was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
However, the former Communists were a strong opposition that stalled additional restructuring and made implementation difficult.
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 Economy of Communist Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the mid-1980s, Czechoslovakia had a highly industrialized economy, a fact reflected in the 1985 official statisticsconcerning production of the net material product of the country (the official measure of aggregate production).
Themain difference is that while in market economies, decisions by individual consumers and producers tend automatically to regulatesupply and demand, consumption and investment, and other economic variables, in most communist economies, these variables aredetermined by a small governing group and are incorporated in a national plan that has the force of law.
Czechoslovakia, by contrast, was a smallcountry that had already reached a high level of industrialization and was rather heavily dependent on foreign trade when theSoviet system was first imposed after World War II Plans and their implementation
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 Czechoslovakia Agriculture - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
The total land area of postwar Czechoslovakia is nearly 12.8 million hectares, of which almost 6.8 million hectares are considered agricultural land.
Extensive additional irrigation and drainage had high priority in agricultural planning, despite the heavy costs of these procedures, because there was very little new land that could be brought under cultivation less expensively.
Planning authorities did not expect that this activity would be the main source of income for small farmers, and they limited the land used for this purpose primarily to that reclaimed from currently unused, somewhat marginal agricultural land, estimated at 100,000 hectares in 1984.
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 FRANCIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
What finally drove things down to the bottom was the Arab Conquest, which crippled or destroyed trade in the Mediterranean, as this had been carried on by Romania.
With Charlemagne's coins, the denarius borrows its name from the silver coin of the early Empire, which had long been debased to nothing, while the obolus was originally a division of the Athenian drachma.
Liberation was a confused combination of relief, joy, shame, and the dangerous temptation of a pro-Soviet French Communist Party.
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How to be a Good Communist: By Liu Shao-Chi, published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking and dated 1965.
Czechoslovakia Today: Large hard cover published in Prague, text in English.
Agriculture in South Africa: History and current state of agriculture and trade in South Africa, nicely illustrated.
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 Governments on the WWW: Czech Republic
Ceská zemedelská a potravinarská inspekce (CZPI) [Czech Agricultural and Food Inspection]
Komunistická Strana Cech a Moravy (KSCM) [Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia]
Komunistická Strana Ceskoslovenska (KSC) [Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]
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