Why did the Russian Revolution occur? Why did the Soviet Union fall? Why did the Cold War end peacefully? Why did the Bolsheviks come to power? Why is Russian Revolution important? Why did the peasants revolt in Russia? Why did the United States not collapse (like the USSR) during the ...
Why did the French Revolution devolve into the Napoleonic Wars? Why was World War II a turning point in history? Why did the Austrian (Hapsburg) Empire fight wars against the Ottoman Empire during the 16th through 18th centuries? Why was WW2 important?
Euromaidan revolution, Crimea and Russia–Ukraine war: why it is time for a review of Ukrainian–Russian studiesRussiaUkraineCrimeaDonbaswar national identityThis review article seeks to launch a debate on the state of Ukrainian–Russian studies which have become quite active among Western scholars ...
The digital revolution, particularly with the Internet of Things, is already transforming tax administrations around the world. In Russia, data from many checkout terminals feed directly into the country’s federal tax service. The Russian tax authorities have a comprehensive view of the entire ...
Stephen King:If you go back over the last three or four years and you think about, when did inflation first surprise on the upside? When did it start coming in higher than people anticipated? When were the financial markets beginning to think, oh, this is a bit...
a decorated Marine officer who fought in World War I and the 1910s Mexican Revolution, met with a representative of a business group comprised of Wall Street firms and leading companies. Theyreportedlytried to get him to join a plot to overthrow FDR and replace him...
two narratives emerged in the media. Pro-Russian sees a popular uprising against French neo-colonialism linked to local corrupt elites. Meanwhile, the Western media sees aspects of a grand conspiracy by Islamists and Russia to establish an anti-Western and anti-liberal empire in Central Africa. ...
The safety of abortion when conducted by advanced medical providers in clinical environments has been clear for decades. But in recent years, a revolution in medication abortion has been increasing the safety of self-managed abortions as well (Grimes et al.2006). Medication abortion (misoprostol al...
In the bad old days, such shifts in power would have led, one way or another, to a terrible general war. Because of the nuclear revolution, such wars are off the table. But since shifts in power still occur—China’s share of the global economy has quintupled over the last generation...
A Historical View Although fossil fuels such as coal have been harvested for centuries, crude oil was first discovered and developed during theIndustrial Revolution, and its industrial uses were developed in the 19th century. Newly invented machines revolutionized the way we do work, and they depend...