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Achhar Singh Chhina
Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina (2 October 1899 — 11 March 1981) was an Indian communist politician and independence activist. He served as a MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly for two terms. In 1962, he contested the Member of Parliament (MP) election from Tarn Taran and was defeated by 1990 votes. Early life He was born in the village Harsha Chhina, Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar, Punjab. Achhar Singh Chhina did his basic studies at Khalsa College, where he played a pivotal role along with Pratap Singh Kairon, former Chief Minister of Punjab. The students and teachers of the college registered their protest against British rule by boycotting the visit of the Prince of Wales to the college. In 1921, Comrade Chhina and Pratap Singh Kairon went to the United States for further studies. Both went to the University of California, Berkeley, to do Masters in Economics. The same year, he joined the Gadar Party in San Francisco and got his first lesson in national politics. Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina
The term ''comrade'' (russian: товарищ, tovarisch) generally means 'mate', 'colleague', or 'ally', and derives from the Spanish and Portuguese, term , literally meaning 'chamber mate', from Latin , meaning 'chamber' or 'room'. It may also specifically mean "fellow soldier". Political use of the term was inspired by the French Revolution, after which it grew into a form of address between socialists and workers. Since the Russian Revolution, popular culture in the Western world has often associated it with communism. Background Upon abolishing the titles of nobility in France, and the terms and (literally, 'my lord' and 'my lady'), the revolutionaries employed the term for men and for women (both meaning 'citizen') to refer to each other. The deposed King Louis XVI, for instance, was referred to as to emphasize his loss of privilege. When the socialist movement gained momentum in the mid-19th century, socialists elsewhere began to look for a similar egalitarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federation, federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, fifteen national republics; in practice, both Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, its economy were highly Soviet-type economic planning, centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |