Eleanor Roosevelt: “The Struggle for Human Rights”

Glossary

• anti-trust laws laws designed to prevent or break up trusts, or business combinations that monopolize an industry and drive out competition
• benevolent dictatorship a system of authoritarian government that attempts to exert total control for the good of the people
• bourgeois democracies a term used by Communist economists and political theorists to refer to Western democracies run by and for the bourgeoisie, or the middle-class owners of capital and the means of production
• capitalistic economy an economic system in which private citizens rather than the government own the means of production (capital) and economic decisions are guided by free-market forces
• Hitler Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany before and during World War II
• Mr. Vyshinsky Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet diplomat, jurist, and foreign minister
• nullify render invalid
• Sorbonne the common name for the University of Paris, derived from one of the university’s first colleges, the Collège de Sorbonne
• totalitarian describing a system of government in which the state maintains absolute control over virtually all aspects of citizens’ lives
• U.S.S.R. the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, which has since broken apart into its constituent republics, including Russia