During the Cold War, the Soviet Union stood for nearly half a century as one of the two lodes of global power. When it dissolved in 1991, Russia found itself losing relevance. Russian President Vladimir Putin was a young KGB officer during this era, and the events of that time influenced...
When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro's revolution--the one that had inspired the left throughou... ChavezLydia,FoleyJulian - Duke University Press...
But in 1991, everything changed. A few months later, the Soviet Union was officially dissolved. Capitalism hurtled into Russian life. Over the course of the next 27 years, Nizhny Novgorod became a conventional city on the eastern fringe of Europe. In June and July, thousands of foreigners w...
Fourteen years ago, in December 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told his country that the cold war was over. In signing the decree that dissolved the Soviet Union and ended the East-West competition, Gorbachev also announced an end to the arms race and the "insane militarization" that ...
the Warsaw Pact as a response to theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO), formed by the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Since then, several Eastern European nations have joined ...
Leon Trotsky: Where Is Britain Going (5. The Question of Revolutionary Force) - Trotsky on Britain, Vol.2 We barely stopped to celebrate the end of the Cold War. First, the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Two years later the Soviet Union dissolved. But our natio... L Trotsky 被引量...
poured through border checkpoints, then started taking sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall. The Romanians shot their dictator and his wife on Christmas Day. The Warsaw Pact voted itself out of existence in February of 1991; the Soviet Union dissolved itself the day after Christmas the same year....
Originally built to haul around the Buran (the former Soviet Union's space shuttle) the An-225 found itself unemployed and in storage when the Russian space program came to an end in the early '90s. Over a decade later, one of the two An-225s in existence found a new role as a com...
In 1967, after the hulking machines became so well-known that they were tapped to follow the Ice Capades for a Soviet Union tour, a second factory was put up in Brantford, Ontario. While the Zamboni brand has about 80 percent of the market share in the U.S., the company does have ...
Originally built to haul around the Buran (the former Soviet Union's space shuttle) the An-225 found itself unemployed and in storage when the Russian space program came to an end in the early '90s. Over a decade later, one of the two An-225s in existence found a new role as a com...