The Soviet Empire started to crumble around 1989. The time period between the forming of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the late 1940s and the retreat of Russia from Eastern Europe with the eventual collapse of communism in Russia is known as the Cold War. There was a gre...
AT THE beginning of this decade, the bright, optimistic talk was of the End of History. The collapse of communism, crushed by the cost of fighting the Cold War, was thought to usher in a post-ideological era of global tranquillity. The triumph of liberal economics was final, and would ...
as the fall of communism shows. The main argument of director Robert Buchar is that despite the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia's danger to the United States during the Cold War has not diminished. The same individuals who resisted the United States are still in charge today, and they no...
“Russia had its guts carved out after the collapse of communism. St. Petersburg, its jewel, was about a thousand miles away from NATO troops in 1989. Now it is less than one hundred miles away. In 1989, Moscow was twelve hundred miles from the limits of Russian power. Now it is abou...
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia In How Capitalism Was Built, Second Edition, he asks - and answers for the twenty-one countries he investigates: o Why did communism collapse? o Why ... L Balcerowicz - 《Eurasian Geography...
In 1945 Russia emerged victorious from the greatest war in its history. Knowing what it wanted, and determined to obtain it, it was the Soviet Union that achieved most of its aims in the immediate postwar period. Having made the greatest sacrifices during the war, the Soviets felt that they...
The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia While few would dispute that communism was thee most important political phenomenon of our century, it is amazing how quiet most Western intellectuals, par... M Malia - Blackwell Publishers Ltd 被引量: 110发表: 2008年 The Worldwide Movement...
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Russian Capitalism After Communism The Origins and Evolution of the Soviet State In the Russian Revolution of 1917, revolutionary Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian czar and four socialist republics were established. In 1922, Russia proper joined its far-flung republics to form the Union of Soviet So...
The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The Americans and British feared the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide. ...