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Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

Soviet Leaders

over from February 13, 1984 to March 10, 1985; Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader; he was in office from March 11, 1985 ...

Operation Barbarossa

Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples" (Operation Barbarossa, 2006)....

Relations Between the US and Russia and the Influence of Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev and Reagan developed a personal relationship based upon mutual admiration, and the humanization of the two men would mak...

'Counterintelligence State' Known as the Soviet Union

time "They found themselves, no doubt, with much more information than they could ever possibly use in the short span of time left...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

Was the Cold War Caused by Nuclear Weapons?

A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...

Expanding the North American Treaty Organization

opportunities were presented when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 (NATO, April, 2009). The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR was...

Sociology, Psychology, and Foreign Policy

In five pages whether or not foreign policy is rooted in psychology and sociology is considered in terms of Bill Clinton's Bosnian...

An Examination of the Cold War and Why It Did Not Result in a Major War

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

Soviet History - A Discussion

Stupidity! Ignore this fraud, Kolya. The aristocracy always try to paint themselves as fundamentally similar to everyday humans su...

Governmental Structure and Function in Russia

This paper discusses Russia's governmental structure as it has evolved since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There are three...

Iran's Influence on the Cold War in 1979

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

US Soft Power Strategies During the Cold War

This research paper investigates and describes the various ways in which the US utilized soft power strategies to counter the infl...

Propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

the people would be controlled by propaganda. They were fed the things they wanted to hear. Of cause, it is much easier to lead pe...

Power Shift from Vladimir Lenin to Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union

business, as well as tend to a number of domestic and foreign policy issues. However, others assert that as Lenin neared the end,...

Soviet Union Work Assignment Policy

there were both positive and negative aspects. In terms of the positive, the most important was that each person was guaranteed a...

Roles of South Korea, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States in Korea's Imperialism

the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...

1941 and 1942 German Occupied Soviet Union and Jews' Fate

specialized army groups within the SS, called the Einsatzgruppen. They were placed under the command of Reinhard Heydrich. Heydri...

Cold War and Bipolarity Between the United States and Soviet Union

U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

Former Soviet Union and Japan National Systems of Innovation

Japan. It was often thought that money was needed in terms of research and development, however, the case of the USSR shows us tha...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, and America's Roles in the Crisis of the Suez Canal

In twelve pages this paper considers the 1956 crisis involving the Suez Canal in an overview of its circumstances, the roles of th...

1939 to 1981 Relationship Between the Soviet Union and the Polish Army

In seven pages this research paper examines relations between the Soviets and the Polish Army during this time period. Two source...

Soviet Union and the Impact of the Second World War

to hide the inherent flaws of the command economy and discourage fundamental reform. "In this paradoxical way, the victory of 1945...

Russia After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

In twelve pages this paper examines women's status, living standards, the economy, and increased crime as each pertains to Russia ...

Soviet Union Dissolution

enormously complex. The Kremlin was most certainly not the sole locus of influence, but the political scene had been dominated by ...

History of Enlightened Despotism

several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...

Despotism Enlightenment

contradiction in having an enlightened despot elaborating and administrating such universal rules (Berkowitz 89). Furthermore, as ...