theorised as a period of transitional socialism whilst some remnants of capitalism remain. Thus, a government exists, albeit a socialist one (a ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’), and a socialist economy is in place, rather than a fully communist one. This, although poorly, ...
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a union of multiple subnational Soviet republics; its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, ...
Europe during the 2nd World War The Yalta Conference – Feb. 1945 Meeting post WWII to divide up Europe. USSR and GB had already secretly agreed on most of the divisions – ex Brits got 90% of Greece USSR -- 90% of Romania US didn’t want USSR to gain control of all of Eastern Eu...
Russia is the world's largest manufacturing strength in oil and gas and China is the world's largest importer of energy and the fastest growing economy a fact that contributes to the prospects that Russia and China could be leveled soon. The relations of the USA, as the only world's ...
The USSR was also the largest communist country. Its Cold War with the United States (1947–1991) filled most of the 20th century with tension that extended throughout the world. During much of this time (1927–1953),Joseph Stalin was the totalitarian leader. His regime is known as one of...
system, and the industrial policy of unbalanced growth in favour of heavy industry, generated the rapid industrialization in the 1930s that enabled the country to catch up with other leading economic powers and to support a militarized economy during both peace-time and the Second World War.1...
Jews in the USSR; Nahum Goldmann; USSR economy; Sino-Soviet conflict; Konrad Adenauer; Khrushchev on Berlin, disarmament, and agriculture; Khrushchev message to African heads of state; USSR-Cuban relations; USSR–International Labour Organization relations; domestic dissatisfaction with USSR foreign aid...
American expectations about information and exchange crucial to the workings of the market economy were totally unacceptable to Soviet leaders accustomed to identifying and using resources as they saw fit in the "administrative-repressive regime" (52). The contras...
Artyom Lukin, a professor at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, wrote in areportfor 38 North that the two countries “may become increasingly close, perhaps even to the point of resurrecting the quasi-alliance relationship that had existed during the Cold War.” Indeed, Pyong...
In other words, chickens have come to roost. What was predicted in 2014 –Ukraine will turn back to Russia, but first its economy will be completely destroyed– is beginning to happen! I just finished and published Webinar 21ESW 21 TRUTHS ABOUT THE USSR & POST-SOVIET SPACENO ONE WILL EVER...