The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the dismantlement of communism in Russia. During the era of communism in the Soviet Union, many rich businessmen gained wealth through influencing politicians. However, these oligarchs were either government officials or relatives to government officials, which gave them access to important financial knowledge and decisions that the government imposed. The oligarchs used this advantage to gain massive amounts of wealth. Not only did these rich businessmen gain
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The United States had always sustained itself and began to emerge as world power since 1776 when they declared their independence. As World War II approached the United States was ending their economic depression allowing them to remain powerful yet neutral during the second world war. The fight had began in 1939 when Hitler, Germany's fascist leader, invaded Poland after signing the treaty of Versailles and then later invading the Soviet Union. Britain and France responded after many days or avoiding
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Karen Petrone’s The Great War in Russian Memory brings scholars to the attention of missing Soviet and historian recognition of World War I memory and remembrance. Petrone argues that Russian memory of the Great War was prominently expressed, despite the official reconstruction and censoring of official Soviet records, lack of commemoration, and what previous historians of the historiography suggest. The author has two primary goals; reintegrate the Russian perspective into the fabric of the history
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When considering the Soviet perspective, its leader Joseph Stalin believed that Germany would be busy warring with Britain and France leaving the east out of the picture. However, the French surrender in June, 1940, made Stalin's second guess his previous unconcerned sentiment. Stalin responded by sending Vyacheslav Molotov to the German capital. According to Erickson and Dilks, Molotov was instructed to stall a German invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin understood that nobody was bold enough to
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Eve Levin’s publication Sex and Society in the World of Orthodox Slavs 900 – 1700 documents the sexual behavior in the religious civilization of Eastern Europe. The author focuses on three Slavic groups; the Bulgarians, the Serbians, and the Russians from the medieval period up until the beginning of the 18th century. Throughout the book, the history of these behaviors are separated by six categories: the ecclesiastical image of sexuality, marriage, incest, rape, and sex and the clergy. Religion
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Since the emergence of the United States as a dominant world power after World War Two it has only ever been challenged on a governmental, militarily, and economical basis once. This grand enemy of the United States was known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or SU for short). For almost fifty years these two great superpowers competed for influence over the resource rich third world, and many a times almost brought the planet to nuclear war. What is rarely addressed as the cause of
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In 1980 Coach Herb Brooks of the USA Olympic Ice Hockey team gave an eloquent speech before they took the ice to play the Soviet Union. The Majority of their season was filled with adversity, and they constantly struggled. A few weeks before the semifinal game against the soviets, USA lost to them. Brooks always had a speech before, during or after the game, but his speech before the start of the semifinal game was one of his best. Brooks used the team’s emotions and his own credibility in order
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Although she belonged to the generation of democratic intelligentsia she was a long time critic of Putin's administration in Russia. Her murder was a simple example of the repercussions that can take place when one anger's powerful people. A Small corner of Hell is a collection of articles on the Second Chechen War that began in 1999, after Vladimir Putin took over Russia. Politkovskaya was working for the Russian biweekly newspaper- Novaya gazetta and was sent to cover the brutalities of the war
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Fears of Communism Tensions were high and tolerance was low, it was the Cold War, creating the space race and the arms race between America and Soviet Russia. In its midst the Cold War changed the United States dramatically, ranging from political to social problems all around the country. During the Cold War period there were many positive and negative effects on U.S. politics. One political effect on politics in the U.S. was Executive Order 9835 or Loyalty Order. This order requires all federal
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Nicholas Brzosko Mr. Dormer Modern U.S 12 March 2015 The United States and Soviet Union Space Race Different ideals discriminated the two super powers. Ideals that are the antithesis of one another created an oscillating spectrum, ranging from inhibiting to creating a pandemic. The launch of the Sputnik by the USSR exacerbated the tension in the U.S. Terrified of the new gauged potential; the Americans entered the space race. The launch of the sputnik was the inception of the space race. The
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