anti-Soviet
Opposing the Kremlin
Anti-Soviet describes opposition to the Soviet Union, its communist government, or its policies.
The term was common during the Cold War to characterize dissidents, resistance movements, and Western political positions: anti-Soviet propaganda, anti-Soviet sentiment in Eastern Europe.
Since the USSR's dissolution in 1991, the word appears mainly in historical contexts.
Opposer of established systems
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- refusenikDeliberate noncomplier
- gulagForced labor prison system
- Charter 77Czech dissident manifesto
Solzhenitsyn · Sakharov · political prisoner · underground literature · censorship · repression · KGB · Solidarity
Soviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
- opennessQuality of being accessible
restructuring · détente · Helsinki Accords · human rights · pluralism · market reform · decentralization · thaw
Mass anti-communist hysteria
- McCarthyismPolitically-motivated accusation without evidence
- counter-revolutionaryOpposes radical political upheaval
- ideological warfareConflict of competing belief systems
- enemy of the statePerson opposed by government
reactionary · subversion · brainwashing · indoctrination · agitprop · bourgeois · revisionism · fifth column
Preventing hostile expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
Berlin Airlift · arms race · Cuban Missile Crisis · domino theory · mutually assured destruction · space race · Sputnik · SEATO
Freedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- national liberationFreedom from foreign domination
- satellite statesNations controlled by another
occupation · annexation · resistance · partisans · freedom fighters · secession · breakaway · decolonization
dissident
Opposer of established systems
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- refusenikDeliberate noncomplier
- gulagForced labor prison system
Solzhenitsyn · Sakharov · Charter 77 · political prisoner · underground literature · censorship · repression · KGB · Solidarity · Prague Spring
glasnost
Soviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
openness · restructuring · détente · Helsinki Accords · human rights · pluralism · market reform · decentralization · thaw · Khrushchev
red scare
Mass anti-communist hysteria
- McCarthyismPolitically-motivated accusation without evidence
- counter-revolutionaryOpposes radical political upheaval
- ideological warfareConflict of competing belief systems
enemy of the state · reactionary · subversion · brainwashing · indoctrination · agitprop · bourgeois · revisionism · fifth column · running dogs
containment
Preventing hostile expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
Marshall Plan · Berlin Airlift · arms race · Cuban Missile Crisis · domino theory · mutually assured destruction · space race · Sputnik · SEATO · Radio Free Europe
independence
Freedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- national liberationFreedom from foreign domination
satellite states · occupation · annexation · resistance · partisans · freedom fighters · secession · breakaway · decolonization · puppet state
anti-Sovietfellow traveler
Ideological ally without membership
Stalinist · Marxist-Leninist · communist · red · socialist