Reconstruction - Politics, History and Sociology

Politics, History and Sociology

  • Reconstruction Era of the United States, the period after the Civil War, 1865–77, especially regarding the defeated South
  • Ministry of Reconstruction, a UK government department
  • Critical reconstruction, a theory regarding the reconstruction of Berlin after the Berlin Wall
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a United States government agency from 1932–1957
  • Economic reconstruction
  • Reconstruction (law)
  • Reconstruction Acts
  • A literal translation of the Soviet/Russian term perestroika

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