At its peak, it had a population of 290 million and covered 1/6thof the world’s surface. The country spanned eleven time zones, bordered twelve states, and included hundreds of spoken languages and dozens of ethnic groups. How was the USSR organized? When it collapsed, the USSR was comp...
The study of ex- pediency of hydrogen production at NPP at the period of load drop and its utilization in peak gas turbine installations (GTI). Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki i Tekhniki. Ser. Atomno-Vodorodnaya Energetika i Technologiya. M.: TsNIlatomin- form, vyp. 3(19), 3 - 6 (1984)...
who has been praised “as an industrializer and cultural visionary who turned his country into a European power”are quite understandable. Under the stewardship of Tsar Peter I“Russia became feared but also respected by its neighbors, and he is...
At the peak of industrialization in the USSR, the state saw university students as a formidable labor force that could be used on a mass scale. In 1959, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (known as ‘Komsomol’) organized university students into newly formed ‘student construction b...
OPEC had seen its share of the world market drop to less than a third in 1985, from about half during the 1970s. In February 1982, the Boston Globe reported that OPEC's production, which had previously peaked in 1977, was at its lowest level since 1969. Non-OPEC nations were at th...