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France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

Answering Cold War Questions

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

'Tsarist' Approach to Soviet Foreign Policy

the revolutionaries and the new leaders and demonstrate its usefulness in terms of serving as a format for class organization as w...

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...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

Expansion of the European Union

the membership of the CEECs as well as the internal reform of the which will be a precondition for the next enlargement" (2001). T...

Should the European Union Use a Two-Tiered Negotiation System?

few remedies proposed. One issue on the block is whether or not to treat all nations that same. When children grow up,they learn ...

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...

1980s' Soviet Union

Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...

1980s' Revolution in Romania and Poland

TASS to comment approvingly that Polish authorities were "taking necessary measure to restore tranquility" (Johnson 18). Just ei...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

Oppression and the Instruments of Josef Stalin

captivating. His ability to analyze a situation and devise the best logistics for rectifying it were also a part of his mechanism...

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...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Comparative Analysis of the CIA and the KGB

Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, ...

'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...

Cold War and Soviet Intelligence Community Success

that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...

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...

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

Undermining the Kremlin by Gregory Mitrovich

this time, which includes the fears of policymakers regarding the Soviet threat, as well as their perspective on the ramifications...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Post Soviet Period of Economic Transition

but a positive concept for post-Communist Russia to be out of the social barriers that confined them for so long; it also serves a...

The Reaction of the World to the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

had been assembled since World War II crossed the border into Czechoslovakia (Caute 327). Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Augus...

Vietnam's Postwar Socioeconomic Changes

combat, drastic measures were required to try and drive the Vietnamese out of their strongholds in the countryside. A policy of ma...

20 Years of Important Environmental and Political Events

Century. This collapse has resulted in numerous world developments. One of the most important has been the attempted transition ...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Russia and Islam

production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...

American Foreign Policy Development

This paper considers how American developed its foreign policy concerning relations with Europe, Latin America, and the Soviet Uni...