Xenakis sets out to explain why "so many political scholars [were caught] by surprise" (p.1). He is by no means alone in this endeavor. The collapse of the Soviet Union was followed by a spate of "gotcha" artic
The Soviet Union, or the USSR, lasted from 1922 until 1991. Led by the Communist Party, it attempted to modernize Russia and other nations in Northeastern Europe in a manner that would be more egalitarian and less dependent on industrial labor bosses....
Walter C. Clemens, Jr., "Who or What Killed the Soviet Union? How Three Davids Undermined Goliath," Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (Spring 1997): 136-58; Clemens, Baltic Independence and Russian Empire (New York: St. Martin's, 1991); Clemens, "Esto- nia, a Place to Watch," The ...
At the core of it, the real center of the issue, is the cultural phenomenon of 'trust collapse'. The great tragedy of our time is this breakdown in trust between the people... and, particular to this website's mission, the breakdown in trust betweenthe sexes. When the sexes trust eac...
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According to Brigid O’Keeffe, professor of history at Brooklyn College, fears of nationalist revolts by non-Russians led the Bolsheviks in the early days of the Soviet Union to guarantee the right to national territories, native-language schools and cultural organizations while using those institut...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the term’s meaning has largely evolved.1Currently, it describes a developed and industrialized country characterized by political and economic stability, democracy, the rule of law, acapitalisteconomy, and a highstandard of living. ...
The first generation of Russian oligarchs emerged from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, whose state control over the economy began to loosen under then-president Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring reforms. Article content
As a popular Marxist slogan puts it, the Communist economy would function "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."3 The Soviet Union Marx and Engels' theories wouldn't be tested in the real world until after their deaths. An uprising in Russia toppled the cza...
“The Soviet Union left a huge debt after its collapse. Russia became the only country to inherit not only the foreign property of the former USSR, but all of its foreign debts as well. It was extremely hard for Russia to serve the debt because the economy was declining steadily in the ...