Forty years ago, Asia was at a vital crossroads, moving into an uncertain future dominated by three different historical trends. The first involved the aftermath of the carnage and destruction of World War II, which left scars on every country in the region and dramatically changed Japan’s rol...
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Marxism, he says, “was the most powerful doctrine for generating a universal and secular human consciousness.” [So much for Z-Bit “being a Pole first, a Catholic second, and an American third.”] Embodied in the Soviet Union, however, Communism became the dogma of a party and, under...
Of course, most of the change and reform introduced in Soviet Russia was lip service at best and fiction at worst, but one can hardly deny that universal education wasn’t a thing in Russia before October, and then suddenly (if you call three years of bloody civil war sudden) it was. ...
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heros, the thinkers who gave their lives for liberty of hand and brain, for the freedom of labor and thought to those who fell on the fierce fields of war. To those who died in dungeons, bound in...
This paper critically examines the role of law in promoting economic development and argues that the most influential ‘law and development’ age
The weight of the thing is the thing that requires the EV to have larger/heavier and more expensive motors – in order to move all that weight. And the heavier the EV is, the faster it burns through the power it has – just the same as a heavy truck burns more gas than a lightwei...
In 1940, the war in the East still felt far away to many in Western Europe, but that false sense of security was shattered on June 14. The New York World-Telegram echoed the shock felt across the Western world when what had been an unthinkable event unfolded in real time. After just ...
The whole business of the Spartan citizenry was war -- although they were reluctant to go to war, lest the helots revolt behind them, as they sometimes did. Unlike Athens, Sparta had no nearby seaport. It was not engaged in or interested in commerce. It had no resident alien population...
Conclusion About the book In 1991 "Communism" collapsed. The cold war was over and the West had won. Whole cities, Moscow, St Petersburg, Warsaw, Beijing, Budapest and Bucharest, whole countries indeed, were privatised for nothing or next to nothing. This was probably the greatest expansion ...