The paper is aimed at analysing the domestic and international determinants of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the consequences for Europe, the world and Poland, as well as its place in Central and Eastern Europe. It demonstrates geopolitical ...
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“we know that putin views the collapse of the soviet union as a disaster,” bowman says. “we know he resents the success of nato. we know that he genuinely reviles the expansion of nato eastward. we know that he has an eye on history, he's getting older, he is mindful of how ...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, societies in Central and Eastern Europe that had sizable middle classes and reasonable bureaucratic traditions prior to World War II were able to transform themselves into relatively stable democracies. But the Middle East and much of Africa lack such bourgeoisie tradit...
After the Soviet Union"s collapse, says Cherlin, "anxiety for the future" depressed birthrates in Russia and Eastern Europe. In poor societies, people have children to improve their economic wellbeing by increasing the number of family workers and providing support for parents in their old ...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union emerged as the most technologically advanced nation in the world when it successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth. The event, documented here by the Wilmington Morning News, triggered panic in the United States and much of the...
What is Russia’s Wagner Group, and why did it recently try to depose Putin? John Lechner and Brian Klaas explain on this episode of Out of the Loop! On This Episode of Out of the Loop: What is Russia’s Wagner Group, and what kind of desperate degenerates fill its ranks? How did...
The collapse of massive state-owned enterprises in the old Soviet Union and the historic bankruptcies of Enron and New York City are notable reminders of a lesson we should have learned from the bankasaurs’ ancestors: don’t bet on big. A closer look at the issues of scale suggests two ...
the Soviet Union eventually collapsed, along with its promise of an alternative to Westerncapitalism. Where centralized economic planning helped spur its mid-century growth, the Soviet Union's piecemeal reforms to decentralize economic power ultimately undermined its economy. ...