what is an homo sovieticus?
114798
"Homo Sovieticus (from New Latin) is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created in the Soviet Union and the countries of the "Eastern bloc". In the Russian language the slang synonym is "sovok" (Совок), which is derived from "Soviet", but it has an additional meaning of a "scoop".\n\nThe idea that the Soviet system would create a new kind of man was first postulated by the advocates of the Soviet system; they called it the "New Soviet man". Opponents of the Soviet system later mocked this idea by inventing the concept of Homo Sovieticus, which they claimed was the real result of Soviet policies, and which was in many ways the opposite of the New Soviet man.\n\nThe main characteristics of Homo Sovieticus are said to be:\n\n    * Indifference to the results of his labor (as expressed in the saying "They pretend they are paying us, and we pretend we are working"), and lack of initiative.\n    * Indifference to common property and petty theft from the workplace, both for personal use and for profit. A line from a popular song, "Everything now belongs to kolkhoz, everything now belongs to me" ("все теперь колхозное, все теперь мое"), which was intended to mean that people on collective farms treasured all common property as their own, was sometimes used ironically to refer to instances of petty theft. (Some people say that Stalin's draconic "Law of Spikelets", dealing out harsh punishment for stealing from the collective, was intended to break this attitude and failed to do so, but this view is disputed, for in the time of the Law of Spikelets there was famine, and the Stalin era in general was different from the Brezhnev stagnation, when Homo Sovieticus is said to have developed)\n    * Isolation from world culture, created by the Soviet Union's restrictions on travel abroad and strict censorship of information in the media (as well as the abundance of propaganda). The intended purpose of these policies was to insulate the Soviet people from Western influence, but, in practice, it resulted in a lively interest in "exotic" Western culture (it became interesting precisely because it was forbidden). Soviet official sources called this fascination "Western idolatry" (идолопоклоничество перед Западом).\n    * Some claim that the main characteristic of Homo Sovieticus is men`s dimished role as "getters" ("добытчик"). Even though men retained their traditional role of housefathers, they had no external stimuli to earn more or to excess what they had already done.\n\nFollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the social and economic problems in Russia were blamed on the alleged inability of Homo Sovieticus to adapt to a different kind of society."
558886
A human being or homo sapien is a species of mammal found on Earth.  It is a primate-like biped with less fur than other primates.\n\nIf by this question you mean 'how do we define a person?' this is a much more complex issue.  Some have suggested that a person is defined by their intelligence but this creates an ethical issues for those born without a brain or with learning difficulties, are these people?  Of course they are.  Others talk of the soul, but where do we find the soul and what exactly is it?  What would  a person be like if they had no soul?  Is it the body, brain or the electrical impulses produced by the brain commonly called the mind that make a person a person?\n\nIt seems as this is a philosophical question, there is no right or wrong answer but it is important to be aware of every angle.
28219
Hmmm...I'm going to assume that when you say "western world," you are talking about first world countries in Europe or U.S.?\n\nI think the Soviet Union is a prime example of a first world power that not only gave it a chance, but hung onto it until the system imploded.\n\nSee, communism cannot work if you have human beings in charge of other human beings.  The division of power (political, military, bureaucratic, whatever) alone causes a rift within the equality quotient that the communist philosophy is founded on.  Those who are in the position of taking advantage of their position is naturally going to take it to make life better for themselvesand their families...it's human nature.  So, you can say that the nature of being human dooms communism.
540590
The Soviettes\nSleater-Kinney
1145343
Humanity, pre-history.
357548
Man of the aparatus.  A term about Russian politics under the Soviet System.  This person did what was necessary to climb the ladder and stay in good graces.  They accepted the system and lived in the system.  Then they got screwed when the system fell and they couldn't get work anywhere, oh well.
879448
he happens to be wrong. Scientists and archeaologists have traced the origin of the homo spp. to the area of africa known as the great rift. Modern humans first apeared in one of three places: North Africa, Central Asia/Middle East, or Eastern Europe.
470199
one all powerful,controlling ruler who owns an enslaved society and posesses maximum control,there is no privacy and things are done for the good of the state or country ,individuality is prohibited as well as free thought,speech and privacy,people are mere units of a machine\ntry looking up stalins totaliarian society,Gulag by anne applebaum is a good source of info. cites soviet archives for evidence,people were basically publicly executed and arrested and enslaved by the masses,the state owned everything once imprisoned (majority innocent)names were ,personal clothes or belongings were denied people wore shapeless ill fitting clothes and they were all the same,people who refused to wear numbers like nuns had the numbers branded on their chest and made to show up to the mandatory role call everyday naked so their number could be seen,people worked according to a schedule or time table everyminute controlled had to go to the bathroom in front of a room ful of people not allowed to speak in some camps,everyone was seperated from friends and family,all women and children sexually abused,everyone died of famine if something else did not kill them first and they were buried anonymously and died anonymously (no one knew if loved ones were dead or alive ,when where or how they died)and became just part of mass graves or piles of bones that in some areas went on for miles,but they were just units of labor ,the state had two canals or straits dug out by hand,moscow university was built as well as ther amphitheatre,railroad systems were expanded up into rural arctic areas,the whole russian space program including the sputnik ,satellite ,weapons was created and produced alot of technology and when stalin wished , he would veiw a massive group of his population of his society move in synch as one massive unit like they were all just cogs in the wheel of a machine
13453
Are you asking if human beings are called homo sapiens? If so, YES!!
170037
Communism:\nPROs:  Proclaims equal distribution of goods amongst all men\nCONs:  Humanity---men will become lazy if they do not have to work for things and the redistribution of goods is pu in the hand of a governemnt that will inevitably become corrupt.\n\nFascism:\nPros:  An absolute authority with far-sweeping powers and control of most major arenas of commerce can bring a nation back to its feet and keep an economy rolling along smoothly.\nCons:  Humanity--as George Orwell said:  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.\nCapitalism:\nPros:  Minimal governemnt intrusion into the public arena.  Businesses can operate freely and, theoretically, people are more mobile in the social hierarchy.\nCons:  Humanity---in the above two instances it was the corruption of the governemnt, but now it is the corruption and possible cold-heartedness of the capitalists.  It basically becomes a second feudalism where fieifs are granted based on money and the serfs can do little to escape their status.
603977
The system was doomed. Even without the cold war, it would eventually have failed. True communism means "Anthill Society", kind of a wrong species model of government. Humans are not communal bugs.
1024966
It means a male beee, it's Russian
652503
There were different species of the Genus Homo, but they are all now extinct.\n\nMost scientists recognize the species of Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens as being the members of this group.  There is some debate as to whether or not there are other species that belong in this group, such as Homo floriensis (aka the Hobbit man that was in the news last year).\n\nThere are a number of physiological and morphological differences between these species, and there also appears that there might have been mental and technological differences as well.\n\nAll of the living humans are in the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens.  We are all very closely related, with only extremely superficial phenotypic differences between the 'races' of mankind, mostly related to geographic isolation and population dynamics.\n\nTracing genetic lineages, these 'races' become even more superficial.  East Asians, Chinese, Native Americans and Western European whites are all more closely related to East Africans than East Africans are to West Africans.\n\nDiffering primarily in degree of skin melanism, hair structure and a few proportions of different facial features, there is no basis for assigning these different geographic populations to separate species.
390769
First of all, it's an allegory to the fall of Russia, not an alliteration. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. As for what Orwell is saying, the story is about communism. In communism, the individual makes sacrifices for the society; rather than working for his own good, he works for the good of everyone, and takes no more than his fair share. The hard-working horse (I forgot his name) does everything he can for the society, and gives all he can. Going the other way, society has an obligation to keep each individual at an equal standard of living - nobody is lower than anybody else.
1183511
Someone who believes in the communist ideology.
81500
This question makes no sense.  Homo sapien doesn't even refer to sex at all but the genus of species Homo sapiens (Humans)(Latin for "wise man"): they are bipedal primates of the superfamily Hominoidea, along with the other apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons.
651874
cosmonauts are russian, astronauts are americans