Enemy of the peopleThe terms enemy of the people and enemy of the nation are designations for the political opponents and for the social-class opponents of the power group within a larger social unit, who, thus identified, can be subjected to political repression. In political praxis, the term enemy of the people implies that political opposition to the ruling power group renders the people in opposition into enemies acting against the interests of the greater social unit, e.g. the political party, society, the nation, etc.
KolkhozA kolkhoz (колхо́з) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917, as an antithesis both to the feudal structure of impoverished serfdom and aristocratic landlords and to individual or family farming. The 1920s were characterized by spontaneous emergence of collective farms, under influence of traveling propaganda workers.
Operation UranusOperation Uranus (Operatsiya "Uran") was the codename of the Soviet Red Army's 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of Axis forces in the vicinity of Stalingrad: the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions of the German Fourth Panzer Army. The Red Army carried out the operation at roughly the midpoint of the five-month long Battle of Stalingrad, aiming to destroy German forces in and around Stalingrad.
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Президиум Центра́льного комите́та Коммунисти́ческой па́ртии Сове́тского Сою́за, abbreviated: Президиум ЦК КПСС) was the highest policy-making authority within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was founded in October 1917, and refounded as a permanent organization in March 1919, at the 8th Congress of the Bolshevik Party. It was known as the Political Bureau until 1952.
