What countries made up the USSR? Who were the Conservatives in the Russian Revolution? What were the Bolsheviks' goals? What groups were involved in the Yom Kippur War? What events led to the Russian Revolution? What groups formed the Iroquois League?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries. The USSR's territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central As...
THE UNITED STATES has a major public relations problem in former Soviet countries. Not only in...Gerber, Theodore PZavisca, Jane
Because of the relative obscurity of Central Asia to much of the world, young post-Soviet countries were not ready for tourism once they gained independence. Central Asia is still not known widely as a tourist destination. Over the last ten years, locals in the region have been working dilige...
2: The USSR and DDR both employed wage differentials based on seniority, type of job and other factors, though the range from low to high was a lot more narrow than in a free market. 3: Communist countries had various degrees of "markets" permitted. In East Germany, businesses with no ...
In Western countries, twice as many women as men get IBS suggesting a role of sex hormones interacting with other risk factors. Ovarian hormones clearly are related to the onset of IBS, still–according to the respective studies—not as a causal factor because they arguably only modulate IBS ...
are net borrowers, and in most countries in which financial repression is a significant policy tool, these tend to be local and central governments, infrastructure investors, corporations and manufacturers, and real estate developers. Financial repression transfers wealth from the former to the latter....
or like other Nordic countries, Denmark and Norway, by Nazi Germany. However, the Nazis fought a scorched earth campaign in late 1944 and early 1945 against Finland when Finland turned on them to reclaim their nation and make peace with the USSR. The Germans left a trail of ruin as they ...
and socialist regimes in fighting the fascist threat posed byNazi Germany. However, the end of the war also ended the always shaky alliance between the Soviet Union and its more politically moderateWarsaw Pactsatellite countries, allowing the USSR to establish communist regimes across Eastern Europe....
While many people put substantial effort into this, the main leaders were Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Sukarno of Indonesia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Josip Broz Tito ofYugoslavia. These five countries made up the primary founding countries of the Non-Aligned Moveme...