Why did the Soviet Union fail to defeat the Mujahedin?Stefan Vedder
Why the Former Soviet Union Failed and the China Succeeded? - A Comparison of the Early Stages of the Reforrn -Why the Former Soviet Union Failed and the China Succeeded? - A Comparison of the Early Stages of the Reforrn -이근...
The Soviet Union was created following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and lasted until its collapse in 1991. The Soviet Union was the world's first communist state and it played an important role throughout 20th century history. It was the Soviet Union that captured Berlin in 1945, defeating ...
Given that the Soviet Union fought in Afghanistan, why was it considered a proxy war? Why is the Soviet-Afghan War called the Soviet Union's Vietnam War? Why is the Soviet-Afghan War called the Cold War? Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1991?
Joseph Stalin, as the second leader of the Soviet Union, tried to enforce militant atheism on the republic. The new “socialist man,” Stalin argued, was an atheist one, free of the religious chains that had helped to bind him to class oppression. From 1928 untilWorld War II, when some...
I specifically stressed the word short-term in the last paragraph, because a extractive political institution can not support sustaining growth. Just like Soviet Union in the last century, extractive political institution can only reallocate the extant resources and technologies to achieve extensive growt...
“A Review of: Once Again: How the Cold War Ended and Why the Soviet Union Collapsed”doi:10.1080/13518040590969785Walter C. UhlerIndependent Scholar and PresidentThe Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, ...
"A Review of: Once Again: How the Cold War Ended and Why the Soviet Union Collapsed"Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended Random House, New York: 2004. Pp. 363,biblio., index. $27.95. ISBN 0-679-46323-2. Ofira Seliktar. Politics, Paradigms, and ...
North Korea is arguably the country most brutally affected by U.S. economic sanctions. North Korea's battles with the U.S. started in the 1950s with the U.S. entry into the Korean War, a move designed to counter the Soviet Union's support for a unified, communist Korea.10 ...