What happened to Russia after the Cold War? What are the causes of World War II? Explain. What events led to the Berlin Airlift? What was the Iron Curtain during the Cold War? What made World War II a total war? What was a major effect of the Russo-Japanese War?
What happened in Guatemala during the Cold War? What happened to Russia after the Cold War? What happened to Germany in the Cold War? What caused the Cold War? What was the outcome of the Cold War? What happened in Poland during the Cold War?
I first began traveling to Russia more than 24 years ago, and in 2010 I publishedTravels in Siberia, a book about trips I’d made to that far-flung region. With the fall of the Soviet Union, areas previously closed to travelers had opened up. During the 1990s and after, the pace of ...
The idea of a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally owned has been tarnished somewhat since then. It has existed harmoniously in smaller communities but communism has so far failed to be successfully implemented on a larger level. Two major examples are Russia and Chin...
Of course I doubt that you will ever hear an honest analysis of scientific socialist theory and what actually happened in Russia, China and Cuba for example. According the definition of communism by the man who coined the phrase, communism *is* stateless and classless. Socialism is the ...
"It seems to me that this attempt to build a communist republic on the basis of a strongly centralised state, under the iron law of the dictatorship of one party, has ended in a terrible fiasco. Russia teaches us how not to impose communism." [Peter Kropotkin, quoted by Guerin, Anarchism...
What Happened: Russia exited WWI early after the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution. In February (or March, depending on the calendar) 1917, protesters rose up against the tsarist government in Russia, forcing the abdication of Nicholas II. A provisional government led by ...
Alexander Berkman provides an excellent overview of what had happened in Russia after the October Revolution: "The elective system was abolished, first in the army and navy, then in the industries. The Soviets of peasants and workers were castrated and turned into obedient Communist Committees, wit...
Very astute observations, Crodserve and Malena. Of course I doubt that you will ever hear an honest analysis of scientific socialist theory and what actually happened in Russia, China and Cuba for example. According the definition of communism by the man who coined the phrase, communism *is* ...
power. Communist command economies can wholly transform societies to conform to the planner's vision. Examples include Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and Castro's Cuba. Russia's command economy built up the military strength to defeat the Nazis and then quickly rebuilt the economy after World ...