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  2. Landed property - Wikipedia

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    Owners often commission an estate map to help manage their estate as well as serving as a status symbol. [6] Landed property was a key element of feudalism, and freed the owner for other tasks, such as government administration, military service, the practice of law, or religious practices.

  3. Socialist property - Wikipedia

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    On June 25, 1990, the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union adopted a resolution, [4] according to which, on the basis of the Kama Automobile Plants, one of the first joint–stock companies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union was created – the Kama Automobile Plant Joint–Stock Company, in which 51% ...

  4. Urban planning in communist countries - Wikipedia

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    Standard buildings in Moscow, the late 1990s – early 2000s [4] The standardization of living (i.e. hot and cold running water, electricity, access to medicine and education, etc.) between the workers in the urban-cityscape and those in the rural-farming lands was an important piece of foundational Marxism–Leninism in the Soviet Union.

  5. Decree on Land - Wikipedia

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    (1) Landed proprietorship is abolished forthwith without any compensation. (2) The landed estates, as also all crown, monastery, and church lands, with all their livestock, implements, buildings and everything pertaining thereto, shall be placed at the disposal of the volost land committees and the uyezd Soviets of Peasants' Deputies pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.

  6. Cold War (1985–1991) - Wikipedia

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    The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

  7. Khrushchevka - Wikipedia

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    Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk. Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet ...

  8. Urban planning in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, urban planning system in Russia went through dramatic change. Due to the country's move to a more liberalized , market economy , the political preferences and direction for the urban planning has changed as well with the state needed to address marketization and regionalization ...

  9. Household plot - Wikipedia

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    This is a small plot of land (typically less than 0.5 ha (1.2 acres)) attached to a rural residence. The household plot is primarily cultivated for subsistence and its traditional purpose since the Soviet times has been to provide the family with food. Surplus products from the household plot are sold to neighbors, relatives, and often also in ...