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 ...
Through discussion around two recently published books by Richard Sakwa and Anna Matveeva, the review investigates five common themes found in Western scholarship about the crisis and Russia–Ukraine war. These include blaming the West for the crisis, downplaying Russian military involvement, justifying...
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 ...
God told meto strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them....
The plotters of a coup attempt against Gorbachev were immediately arrested. Most remained in jail for more than two years. After Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the former Soviet Union…
Finally, the women’s weightlifting revolution is building momentum. At the Rio Olympics?) More and more women are picking up barbells and dumbbells, increasing their strength and power, and banding together because of it. But even with its increasing popularity, there’s still a camp of firm...
I WAS hoping they’d make a move on Iran and Russia would simply create a blackened pit where the nasty little nation is now, but I guess just pulling the “leech” off of this country will be enough…THen they can cry about a REAL holocaust commited against them in retaliation for ...
Likewise, China’s GDP was even smaller and more primitive than Russia’s. Even as Mr. Deng was discovering the People’s Bank of China’s printing press, which would enable it to become a great mercantilist exporter, an incipient Chinese threat to national security was never in the...
Theories differ,but there's no doubt Napoleon was a major influence.The French have used the right since at least the late 18th century (there's evidence of a Parisian "keep-right" law dating to 1794).Some say that before the French Revolution,aristocrats drove their carriages on the left...
How did the February Revolution occur, which paved the way for the October Revolution (“October Celebration”, I say, as it was a near-bloodless fiesta)? The Bolsheviks did not call for it – indeed, established political parties are always behind the mood of the average person. The Febru...