Of course, such considerations must affect any assessment of Soviet intentions but since the Soviet Union, no less than any other power, must accommodate principle to contingency, it is relatively easier (or at least less obviously risky) to analyse Soviet policies in terms of the external ...
what was really cool was that in six months i was fluent in mandarin chinese and took a little bit longer to get up to native. but i looked around and i saw all of these people from different countries struggling terribly with...
New countries can emerge as a result of changes in political events, such as the disintegration of the Soviet Union. While there are no specific rules for forming a new country, international law has established certain broad guidelines. The Declarative Theory of Statehood was formalized in th...
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1947, Britain, when facing economic difficulties, informed the United States that it could no longer aid Greece and Türkiye economically. To counter what was termed the "spread of communism," the U.S. government decided to seek congressional approval for a support bill for the two countries. ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was a young KGB officer during this era, and the events of that time influenced many of the moves he made in the early years of his administration, with the goal of regaining the importance in the world the Soviet Union used to hold—and restoring Russian pr...
Moscow Prime Time: how the Soviet Union built the media empire that lost the cultural Cold Wardoi:10.1080/01439685.2012.699169Denise J. YoungbloodHistorical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
1947, Britain, when facing economic difficulties, informed the United States that it could no longer aid Greece and Türkiye economically. To counter what was termed the "spread of communism," the U.S. government decided to seek congressional approval for a support bill for the two countries. ...
One of the most famous and historically important examples of privatization occurred after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union’s form of government wascommunism, where everything was owned and run by the state; there was no private property or business. Privatization began before the...