(Placename) a former federal republic in E Europe and central and N Asia: the revolution of 1917 achieved the overthrow of the Russian monarchy and the Soviet Union (the USSR) was established in 1922 as a Communist state. It was the largest country in the world, occupying a seventh of ...
Communism - Soviet Union, Cold War, Socialism: After Marx’s death in 1883, Engels became the chief expositor of Marxist theory, which he simplified and in several respects transformed. His version of Marxism, which he called “scientific socialism,” ma
Soviet Union - Cold War, Glasnost, Perestroika: Khrushchev had a vision for the Soviet Union: a land of plenty where democracy, guided by the party, reigned. He was prevented from being very radical in most policy areas by the conservative majority on th
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. ...
CommunismThe Soviet Union, the Communist Movement, and the World: Prelude to the Cold War, 1917-1941 - 1990 by Alan J. Levine. Read The Soviet Union, the Communist Movement, and the World: Prelude to the Cold War, 1917-1941 now at Questia....
Communists backed by the Soviet Union take over Bulgaria, Albania, and East Germany. The Cold War There were real spies--not only Alger Hiss at State but Harry Dexter White at Treasury, Lauchlin Currie at the White House, and David Greenglass at Los Alamos, who had been recruited by anoth...
Cold War. The name given to relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union after World War II, characterized by tensions, suspicions, and intense competition. THE COLD WAR The Cold War Cold War- A war of tension and the ideas of Capitalism (USA) vs. Communism (USSR) Cold War- A war of...
“The United States was trying to do everything in its power to stop the dissolution of the Soviet Union,” says Plokhy. “It’s as simple as that.” The real end of the Cold War came about, he adds, at theMalta Summitin 1989, where Gorbachev and Bush met and agreed to a peace ...
16、SovietCommunism had collapsed.(苏联土崩瓦解了。) 17、Gorbachev failed to keep the component parts of theSovietUnion together.(戈尔巴乔夫没能使苏联各组成部分保持在一起。) 18、Area 51 staff had to regularly interrupt such tests and hurry prototypes into "hoot-and-scoot sheds", lest they are...
Once at the front, the cultural environment of the International Brigaders was sovietised: politically by a hierarchical form of politics characteristic of communism, culturally by ever more numerous borrowings of references and symbols from the Soviet system. The communist movement and violence in Fr...