Berend (2000) – From Plan to Market, From Regime Change to Sustained Growth in Central and Eastern Europe * After the state socalism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, the Washington consensus of 1989 (a broadly accepted set of criteria for a reform program) was adopted as a blueprint for the process of transformation. * Central elements: * Macro-economic stabilization (for countries with significant inflation and indebtedness) * New institutions
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individual citizens. While Socialism promises prosperity, equality, and security, it delivers poverty because it promotes victimhood and big government solutions; and it offers a false hope of a utopian society which results in the loss of freedom and the rise of governmental tyranny. Socialism is defined as a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production. Many have come to realize that it was nothing but a catastrophic failure . Socialism was created to remedy the
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passing of old is sues and the emergence of new conflicts and contestants, there is a natural tendency, especially on the part of the generation which grew up during the Cold War, to take a fresh look at the causes of the great contention between Russia and America. Some exercises in reappraisal
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Does History repeat itself? Yes It Does. Question Does History repeat itself? In what ways? Hypothesis History, as a reflection of past repeats itself as events related to social norms, ethical values, religious dogmas, wars and peace, and ideological orientations. Introduction History repeats itself in various ways and it is imperative that we learn from our past so that we are aware of our present and possible future because if taken lightly, history can replicate itself in brutal ways. The lessons
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From the period of 1949 to 1963, the Arms race was a period were there which saw two superpowers the USA and the USSR increasing their nuclear technology developments. The arms race ultimately prevented tensions from escalating into an actual fully fledged war. On the other hand there were de-stabilising factors that put both countries on the brink of nuclear warfare and the world at risk of annihilation, such as the pressure of domestic politics, hot wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the Cuban missile
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the side. When I opened up the trunk I found several pages written by Russian peasant living in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. This man was there to experience the March Revolution, the attacks in Petrograd, and the beginning of War Communism by the Bolsheviks. I was amazed by all of the things he lived through and what he experienced, and how lucky I was to find these. I got them checked out and found out they were authentic and the entries were from the years 1917-1922. I was so astonished
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Trustees of Princeton University Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 Author(s): Timur Kuran Source: World Politics, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Oct., 1991), pp. 7-48 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2010422 . Accessed: 26/02/2011 05:24 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms
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and urge them to follow in their footsteps to challenge dictatorial regimes or the status-quo. The Three Revolutions: Masses against the existing powers. If the revolutions are studied and analyzed then it becomes evident how France, China and Russia exhibited
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promise but also unexpected trouble and disappointment. Perhaps of all the painful developments in Russian society since the Soviet collapse, the most surprising -- and dismaying -- is the country's demographic decline. Over the past two decades, Russia has been caught in the grip of a devastating and highly anomalous peacetime population crisis. The country's population has been shrinking, its mortality levels are nothing short of catastrophic, and its human resources appear to be dangerously eroding
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Hist. 3002 February 14,2013 “Yalta Conference” With Japan’s surrender, the Allies turned to the challenge of rebuilding war-torn nations. Even before the last guns fell silent, they began thinking about principles that would govern the postwar word. The Yalta Conference also known as the Crimea or “Argonaut” conference was held from February 4 to February 11of 1945, just before the end of World War II. The United States was represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain
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