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The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism

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After the Soviet collapse, the concept of a federation disappeared and Yeltsin instead sought to bring together the former Soviet republics through the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), though the three Baltic republics did not participate. The Rusyns also adopted the Catholicism of their Hungarian and Slovak neighbors. A criminal investigation in 1923, which became known as “Teapot Dome,” brought disgrace on two members of President Warren G.
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic

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France, 2004) Directed by Alexander Sokurov. The right to divorce, for instance, was very important to him: "We consider that both man and woman ought to be free in their fate." Through the entire Soviet history, provincial intellectual elites tried to join Muscovite elite. In addition, in the national languages of several republics the word "Council/Conciliar" in the respective language was only quite late changed to an adaptation of the Russian "Soviet" - and never in others, e.g., Ukraine.
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Federalism and Democratization in Post-Communist Russia

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The Vietnamese under communist rule and influence were apparently among the "people in the huts and villages. .. struggling to break the bonds of mass misery" that JFK spoke about in his Inaugural Address. Taken together, these three issues provide insight into the changing context, various sources and different permutations of a particularly virulent, and, arguably, consequential current of anti-Westernism in contemporary Russian intellectual and political discourse.
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Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine:

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Lie! ???? The Soviet holocaust took millions of lives and those lives deserve our remembrance just as the German holocaust did and does. According to Kegley: Of the explanations of the sources of Soviet surrender, perhaps the one that is the most popular among political realists from the right is the corollary proposition that nuclear deterrence drove Soviet leaders to abandon any hope that they might have harbored about prevailing militarily over the West (Kegley 16).
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Russia in Transition Vol.2

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The 1936 Edict also banned abortions; these were permitted again in 1955 for medical reasons, and in 1968 without restrictions. Russian Empire)’ 37 Russian Studies in History 53. His weekly WPR column, Global Insights, appears every Tuesday. We have national interests.” [279] The evidence appears to point to these “national interests” as the reduction and elimination of the perceived superpower status of the United States.
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Stalin's Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda

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And for many, at least in Russia, there was no radical break but a complex evolution in which many of the former ruling group, and many of the values of the Soviet period, remained intact. The court is also authorized to rule on violations of constitutional rights, to examine appeals from various bodies, and to participate in impeachment proceedings against the president. Jan, a middle-aged, nondescript everyman, desperately wants to remain in prison, though the state says it is time for him to go.
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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy

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They then continue their exposition to develop the idea that to each mode of production or industrial stage - see premise (1) - there corresponds a "mode of cooperation" or "social stage." Among some of the people, it was argued, there was a growing dissatisfaction not only with the current arrangements of marriage and family life, but also with the formulations of Marx, Engels, and their more orthodox Soviet followers. Thus, for all his astuteness, Lovestone was naive and showed terrible judgment in his underestimation of the boundless cynicism of the Comintern and Stalin, unimpressed by such irrelevancies as a "majority."
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The Securitization of Russian Strategic Communication

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What does register is the reality than an unemployed miner in West Virginia has better prospects and a higher standard of living than an employed coal miner in the Donbas; and that an elderly American trying to scrape by on a fixed income is better off than a humiliated Moscow pensioner trying to peddle her/his old pair of boots or some family heirloom to buy a life-sustaining loaf of bread. The United States could not resist the temptation to announce its “victory” in the cold war.
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EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015: From Courtship to

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We would like the relations between the two great neighboring socialist countries to be normalized as soon as possible. Working units on the sovkhoz were also organized according to the brigade system, with permanently assigned personnel performing specific tasks. They pushed—some might even say imposed—democratic principles and embedded them in international institutions and agreements. Xu Xin led a delegation to the GDR and met with Minister of Defense Gen.
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Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and

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We would like to ask: On what does the USA base this flagrant interference in the internal elections of a sovereign state? The Soviet Union remained in flux and unpredictable. The manufacturer praised the capability of Vietnam’s Bien Hoa Helicopter Repair joint venture. Neither scenario is comforting to the rest of us. The centre-right coalition led by Andrus Ansip increased its parliamentary majority in elections held in March 2011.
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