Soviet Union History

noun A communist party official in charge of political education and organization.

• The commissar was responsible for ensuring the soldiers followed orders.
• The commissar is always watching us, so we better behave.
• I heard the commissar is cracking down on rule-breakers.
• She acted like the commissar of the group, making sure everyone stayed in line.

noun a tool consisting of a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

• The hammer and sickle symbol is commonly associated with communism.
• I saw a tattoo of a hammer and sickle on his arm.
• Some people still wave flags with the hammer and sickle at protests.
• The hammer and sickle represents the unity of industrial and agricultural workers.

noun the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

• The policy of glasnost allowed for increased transparency within the government.
• Glasnost was a period of openness in the Soviet Union.
• Glasnost was like a breath of fresh air in the closed-off society.
• The concept of glasnost shattered the walls of secrecy in the regime.