An attack by one or several states on another state with the aim of seizing its territory, enslaving its peoples, and subordinating it to the aggressor state; a policy of imperialism.
Under the United Nation Charter, unlawful use of armed force by one state against the sovereignty, territorial inviolability or political independence of another state or nation.
Oral, printed and visual political activity influencing the masses’ consciousness and mood to motivate them to political participation. In socialist countries, agitation is an important means of mobilizing the people to build socialism and communism; in capitalist states it is used in the political struggle between classes and between parties.
A philosophical doctrine which holds that it is impossible to completely and truly recognize the essence of things and reality. Agnosticism confines the role of science to mere cognition of external aspects of phenomena rather than their essence.
Crises of overproduction in capitalist agriculture resulting in greater stocks of unsold agricultural produce, lower prices, and accelerated ruin of small and medium farmers.
Measures taken by a state to change agrarian relations and the forms of landownership. The nature of the social system and state power determines in whose interests and on what basis these reforms are carried out. During the bourgeois revolutions in some capitalist countries, agrarian reforms were anti-feudal and speeded up the development of capitalist relations. In the peoples’ democracies of Central and Southeast Europe and Asia, Agrarian Reforms aimed to abolish landlord property by confiscating the landed estates and handing them over to the peasants free of charge or at a small price.
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