A 1961 map of the USSR and its neighbours from a British newspaper in 1961, showing the country’s “expansion.” North Korea was established in the 1940s as a buffer between the USSR and the West. While China became a communist state in October 1949, the two countries always had a cul...
but also many of the poor countries. While leaching off Russia all those exes could afford to behave like this, insulting Russians at every turn for a very simple reason: the West paid them to do so. In other words
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Checklist for national e-readiness: small firms in developing countries can be more competitive using ICTs--by participating in new export sectors, streaml... The Finnish salmonella control program (FSCP) for beef production is based on both randomized and selective testing of herds and animals....
Central Planning is not seen as an extension of Soviet power, those who take issue with it often rather have an issue with Socialism as a whole before they take issue with Soviet power. I was referring more to Soviet extensive control over those countries policies opposed to direct control...
(and levels of autonomy within) ethnic homelands; the spatial pattern of actual and potential territorial claims; linkages between environmentalism and nationalism (with an emphasis on the Baltic and Central Asian republics); parallels and differences between the USSR and other countries; and ...
With reform and the arrival of Glasnost in the latter period of the Soviet Union - and in the subsequent years - came the first signs of freedom of speech. Government censorship was no more and free media became a thing (although that change would be short-lived in some countries). Compar...
The essays about womens status in Eastern European countries and some independent states of the former USSR focuses on the post-communist era and gender po... NanetteFunk,MagdaMueller,introductionbyNanetteFunk - Gender politics and post-communism : reflections from eastern Europe and the former Sovie...
On 3rd August 1968, Brezhnev made a speech [which was publicised after the Czech invasion] outlining his view that it was the duty of Warsaw Pact countries to invade any Communist country who attempted to make any capitalist reforms. These actions, argued Brezhnev, threatened the stability of ...
How many countries were in the Soviet Union? In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the world's most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed15 republics–Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, ...