The reasons of the initial changes in the Soviet Union were, in our opinion, the following: the development of international communication connections and tourism in the 1970-1980s, which contributed to the spread of democratic ideas in the USSR and made it possible to compare the level of ...
Economic reform, democracy and national movements in the USSRdoi:10.1080/13597569108420820BohdanProfessorKrawchenkoProfessorInformaworldRegional Politics & Policy
democracieshave elected representatives. At its most basic‚ ademocracyis a system of government where leaders are chosen by election‚ but there are other criteria. After all‚ Russia‚ Uzbekistan‚ and Egypt all have elections‚ but they are emphatically notdemocracies. Even the USSR ...
it costs more for a trucker to bring it there. We’ve been made dependent on oil from countries that hate us, like Iran and Venezuela. These countries hate us in the Middle East. We need to be energy independent in this country
who established a national Catholic regime under Nazi protection during the Second World War. More seriously, it is founded on supporters of independence from the USSR, who did not recognize themselves in the figure ofVáclav Havel, the CIA agentwho took power during a colourful revolution, the ...
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain In the reform of manners associated with the emergence of British commercial capitalism, he argues, the middle classes invented modern meanings of sex and gender, fully aware that much was at stake. Barker-Benfield elaborate...
(USSR in 1985–91, Burma in 1988, China in 1989, Benin and Mali in 1990, etc.) and bring about their transformation. The demand for democratization, for example, cannot be equated with free elections between two or more parties. Even dictatorships occasionally conduct multiparty elections—...
Turkey's geographical position, between the Middle East and Europe and at the centre of the current upheavals in the USSR and the Balkans, has led to a reawakening of interest in its international standing. Meanwhile its domestic politic... W Hale - 《International Affairs》 被引量: 144发表...
limited to a heterosexual relationship, the writer also introduced the concept of “Ryo-ki”, the bursting sexual curiosity, in the sexual liberation movement. The emergence of male prostitution and same-sex relationship exemplifies this phenomenon of “abnormal love”. The most interesting point is...
But his efforts met only little success due to his failure to present a plan that could lead the USSR out of the crisis. Yeltsin's policy was the continuation of the Gorbachev–Sheyardnatze line of ‘new thinking’ in handling international relations. According to Gorbatchev (1987), the ...