Reason # 1 Central Asia as part of the USSR As part of the Soviet Union until 1991, the region was generally closed to mass tourism. Popular among Russian alpinists and explorers, Central Asia had the highest mountain peaks in the Soviet Union. Issyk-Kul, the enormous mountain lake in Kyrg...
Our time in the Balkans was limited to three day stints (not including one day of travel) in Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria), and Belgrade (Serbia), with a longer stay planned in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Dubrovnik, Split, and Zagreb (Croatia). Train travel in this par...
Did the Continental Congress want to seize Fort Ticonderoga? Was Vienna or Venice a part of the Ottoman Empire? Did Austria-Hungary sign the Treaty of Versailles? Did Russia violate the Monroe Doctrine? Did the Treaty of Versailles split Austria-Hungary? Did the Russian Empire rule over Turkey...
the Bolsheviks and the USSR came to represent "socialism" even as they systematically destroyed the basis of real socialism. By transforming the soviets into state bodies, substituting party power for soviet power, undermining the factory committees, eliminating democracy in the...
After Kyivan Rus’ was split into fragments, the territory would come to be contested and ruled over by various powers. In the following centuries, Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia would all try to stake their claim over the region. ...
We actually get this all the time with people asking to split a thread off into a new topic, leaving the existing thread to die on it's own or continue with what it was doing.This forum isn't like a standing room only pub, it effectively has tables that people book to discuss a ...
“Turkey,” wrote Samuel Huntington, “is a typical torn country,” meaning that it is split between the generally European orientation of its elite and the much more Muslim outlook of the “poorer and rural” segments of society. See Odom (1997). 6 For Danilevsky's “breathtaking spatial ...
Today Woodrow Wilson bashing is commonplace, with different ideological groups having their reasons to despise him. So this makes me wonder, why did the American public elect Wilson in 1912? Yes, its true that there was a divided GOP split between supporting Roosevelt and Taft and that mattered...
The war was between the North and South Vietnamese however the United states got involved to help the South avoid falling into the communist ways just as the North did. There were some positive aspects in the war, however there seemed to be more negative situations and opinions that ...
Responses were along the lines of ‘We can see that Germany was split up into 4 parts’, ‘Berlin was also split into 4’ and ‘Each part was given to a different country to occupy.’ I now asked pupils to talk again in pairs, drawing on the responses they’d heard to come up ...