Usually it’s—‘Well, we don’t know exactly how we’ll do it, but we’ll do it.’ Or, ‘We have a way to do it, which may work.’ It was really a surprise to me; I couldn’t pick any obvious holes in what they had done. I could find no reason why they couldn’t go...
This is what happened when the central government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. I would think that parallel kinds of changes could start happening in the next few years, in many parts of the world. At some time, perhaps as soon as 2025, the European Union could collapse. If thi...
ofthewayinwhichtheSovietUnioncollapsedinthelate80sandearly90s. 冷战引发了一场军备竞赛几乎改变了美国人生活的方方面面 ItsetoffanarmsracethatchangedvirtuallyeverythingaboutAmericanlife, 但也确实破坏了全球关系的稳定 butalsoreallydestabilizedglobalrelationships 在20世纪的大部分时间里 andcausedinfiniteamountofharm...
Crushing the world’s 11th-largest economy, comparable in size to Australia, should not necessarily cause global mayhem.[粉碎规模与澳大利亚相当的世界第 11 大经济体,并不一定会引起全球混乱。]But since Nekrasov’s time, and further still since the Soviet Union collapsed, the chain of dependence ...
The day the Soviet Union collapsed, PresidentGeorge H.W. Bushdeclared “victory” in the Cold War. But that declaration was misleading, says Serhii Plokhy, a history professor at Harvard University and the author ofThe Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. ...
Pan Am and Aeroflot’s competitive partnership ended when the Soviet empire collapsed in December 1991, but not as might have been expected. That same month, the Pan Am empire also collapsed, after years of being unable to adapt to a rapidly changing airline industry that underwent deregulation...
The situation has changed radically since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Newly independent republics of Central Asia have abolished the high number of USSR water management institutions and abandoned funding, and domestic disputes on the water supply have turned into international conflicts. In ...
Opinion: The Soviet Union appeared powerful in 1990, but collapsed months later; the situation in Iran shows some similaritiesstaff
Sergey proposed his idea to some of the leading Russian scientists at the time. Impressed, they agreed to a small field experiment with Yakutian horses. Within months, grass began to grow. Levels of nitrogen and phosphorus increased tenfold. Then, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and ...
autonomy from central authority, shaking the foundations of the command economy, while more localized cultural identities and priorities took precedence over national concerns. With its economy and political unity in tatters, the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, fragmenting into 15 separate states....