Since real political power belongs to the sole legal party, in certain states under Marxist constitutions of the constitutionally socialist state type inspired by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) and its constitutive Soviet republics, there was no formal office of head of state, but rather the leader of the legislative branch was considered to be the closest common equivalent of a head of state as a natural person.

Since Marx's time, the theory has been modified and expanded by thousands of Marxist thinkers.

Since 2006, it has been known as the International Marxist Tendency ( IMT ).

Since the 1970s, two broad reactions against neoclassical approaches have significantly changed the discipline: Marxist political economy, growing out of the work of David Harvey ; and the new economic geography which takes into account social, cultural, and institutional factors in the spatial economy.

Since its first publication, Marxist scholars have found the work particularly valuable since it is perhaps the most comprehensive statement of Marx's theory of history stated at such length and detail.

Since then, however, Lenin's theory has been extended by Marxist scholars to be a synonym of capitalistic international trade and banking.

Since the 1970s, however, most Marxist organizations explicitly support such liberation movements, not only because they are worthy in and of themselves, but also on the grounds that they are seen as necessary for a working-class revolution.

Since the 1990s Workers Vanguard has also featured original essays on the history of Marxist and pre-Marxist radical ideas written by long-time member Mark Tishman under the name Joseph Seymour.

Since then it has been used by a number of writers on economics and society, mainly but not exclusively in the Marxist tradition.

Since its World Congress in 2006, the organisation was renamed the " International Marxist Tendency " ( IMT ).

* Marxist Organizations in Quebec Since the Early 1970s: Our Continuity

Since Oz is ruled by a monarch, benevolent though she may be, Oz is closer in nature to an absolute monarchy than a welfare state or a Marxist one.

Since the collapse of the Soviet union and the COMECON trading bloc in 1991 no major group of trading partners or even single large economy has been run along Marxist lines.

Since the USSR was a longtime rival of Japan and a revolutionary Marxist power, Soviet participation raised many questions and problems.

Since the SPD was Marxist, using Karl Marx's Das Kapital for their theoretical underpinnings the ruling classes considered it a threat.

Since the 1980s, a new cultural geography has emerged, drawing on a diverse set of theoretical traditions, including Marxist political-economic models, feminist theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis.

Since the revolution and the subsequent mutually-agreed peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czechs have made integration with Western institutions their chief foreign policy objective.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

Since then Mao's peasant revolutionary vision and so-called " continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat " stipulated that class enemies continued to exist even though the socialist revolution seemed to be complete, giving way to the Cultural Revolution.

Since the 1970s there has been a revolution in scholarship: the Elohist source is now widely regarded as no more than a variation on the Yahwist, while the Priestly source is increasingly seen not as a document but as a body of revisions and expansions to the Yahwist ( or " non-Priestly ") material.

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the Iranian government has executed more than 4, 000 such people.

Since then the area has remained under the control of the Grimaldi family to the present day, except when under French control during the French revolution from 1793 to May 17, 1814.

Since the cultural revolution of the 17th century in England, which spread to France and the rest of Europe, society has been considered subject to natural laws akin to the physical world.

Since the scientific revolution, the relationship of science to religion and spirituality has developed in complex ways.

Since the velvet revolution, the Czech Republic has successfully transformed itself into a free market economy.

Since the 1979 revolution the persecution of Bahá ' ís has increased with oppression, the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment.

Since the 1979 revolution, the authorities have destroyed most or all of the Baha ' i holy places in Iran, including the House of the Bab in Shiraz, a house in Tehran where Bahá ' u ' lláh was brought up, and other sites connected to aspects of Babi and Baha ' i history.

Since then the country's policies have oscillated between the two opposing tendencies of revolutionary ardour, which would eliminate Western and non-Muslim influences while promoting the Islamic revolution abroad, and pragmatism, which would advance economic development and normalization of relations.

Since then, this song, which contains a message of liberty and patriotism, has been sung during all major Romanian conflicts, including during the 1989 anti-Ceauşist revolution.

Since the English came late to the transatlantic trade, their commercial revolution was later as well.

Since the movement's international expansion beginning in the 1960s and extension of social and cultural activities beginning in the 1970s, Ikeda expanded his predecessor's ideas of " human revolution " and " engaging with the world, rather than liberation from it ", emphasizing, in the words of one observer, a " humanistic activism " as both the religious and social aims of Nichiren Buddhism.

Since the revolution I have taken the name of a saint who was hanged for his republican principles .”

Since 2001, the building serves as a museum to the revolution.

Since Marxism emphasises the contingency of political developments on material historical circumstances ( as against ' idealism '), it is worthwhile to have some idea of how Marx saw the context in which he advocated ' permanent revolution '.

Since the wind pulls each blade around on both the windward and leeward sides of the turbine, this feature spreads the torque evenly over the entire revolution, thus preventing destructive pulsations.

Since the Islamic revolution in 1979, and in particular following the terrorist attacks against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in February 1992 and the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires in July 1994, in which over 100 people were killed and for Iran's leadership was accused of having masterminded, the World Jewish Congress has been vocal in denouncing what it calls the “ Iranian threat .”

Since the revolution university enrollment and the number of women in the civil service and higher education has risen ( to the alarm of some regime authorities ), and several women have been elected to the Iranian parliament.

Since an influential segment of anarchists reject either dialectical materialism or historical materialism or both, these anarchists usually do not claim that revolution and the reorganization of society are inevitable, only that they are desirable.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

Since 1978, the Communist Party has attempted to institutionalize transitions of power and consolidate its internal structure.

Since 1978 black membership has grown, and in 1997 there were approximately 500, 000 black members of the church ( about 5 % of the total membership ), mostly in Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, however, this has never occurred.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, there have not been any coalition governments, even if the party with the largest number of seats has failed to obtained absolute majority, though in such cases the party in government has had to rely on the support of minority parties to gain confidence and to approve the State's budgets.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, these nationalities and regions progressively acceded to self-government and were constituted into 17 autonomous communities.

Since self-determination is not recognized in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, some Basques abstained and some even voted against it in the referendum of December 6 of that year.

Since 1978, the opening features the Aristo ( Heuer ) stopwatch.

Since starting operations in 1978, IFAD has invested US $ 12. 0 billion, DM 7. 5 billion in 860 projects and programmes that have reached some 370 million poor rural people.

Since medieval times, Thessaloniki was hit by strong earthquakes, notably in 1759, 1902, 1978 and 1995.

Since 1978 Microwave sounding units ( MSUs ) on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen, which is proportional to the temperature of broad vertical layers of the atmosphere.

Since 1978, a systematic excavation has led Loud in the setting of a regional research program on the evolution of the churches during the Middle Ages.

Since Intel's patents were from 1978, that paper would prove prior art and imply that the patents never should have been granted at all.

Since 1976, Spassky has lived in France with his third wife ; he became a French citizen in 1978, and has competed for France in the Chess Olympiads.

Since 1978, all German funds provided as part of government level cooperation have been in the form of non-repayable grants.

United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978.

Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.

Since 1978 the US Open tennis tournament has taken place in Flushing Meadows Park.

Since the establishment of an archival policy for television in 1978, BBC archivists and others over the years have used various contacts in the UK and abroad to try to track down missing programmes.

Since the BBC library was first audited in 1978, missing programmes or extracts on either film or tape are often found in unexpected places.

Since 1978, each Mayor must also be an elected councillor.

Since 1978, it has housed the city's history museum.

United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978.

United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978.