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Cold War Winners and Losers

In six pages this paper discusses how the Cold War conclusion of the Soviet Union's collapse was due more to Mikhail Gorbachev's r...

Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia Invasions by the Soviet Union and the Reaction of the United States

year war that has often been referred to as the "Soviet Unions Vietnam." In general, the U.S.S.R. invasion has proven to have bee...

Soviet Union's Foreign Policy Changes from 1980 to 1992

In six pages this research paper analyzes how the changes of the Soviet Union's foreign policy within this time period affected it...

Collapse of the Soviet Union and Russian Nationalism

the "imperial" center of the Soviet Union. In the late 1980s as nationalistic feelings in the satellite republics propelled these ...

20th Century's Most Historic Events

In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...

Leonid Brezhnev's Policies and the Afghanistan Invasion by the Soviet Union

In ten pages this paper examines the Brezhnev Doctrine and the factors that culminated in the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanist...

David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb

In 5 pages this paper discusses Remnick's version of the Soviet Union's collapse and also offers different ideological interpretat...

Weapons and Their Costs and Damage to Human Life

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

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...

Soviet Union's Breakup

In five pages this journal style paper examines the breakup of the Soviet umbrella and considers its impact on people and business...

Cold War Comparison of U.S. CIA and Soviet Union's KGB

In five pages this research paper examines the Cold War in a contrast and comparison of the CIA and the KGB. Eight sources are ci...

Soviet Union's Uses of Propaganda

130) and used all the weapons of the modern dictatorship: surveillance, false arrests, show trials, hellish labor camps and summar...

Cuba's Fidel Castro v. Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev

In six pages the different styles of leadership by these two Communist rulers are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited...

Korean War, Stalin and Soviet Union's Agenda

In twelve pages this paper discusses the theory behind the so called Stalinist Agenda with regards to the Korean War and the Thirt...

Russian Mafia

and also by enforcing contracts during a time when the state apparatus was "too weak and corrupt to do so" (Sokolov 68). Since the...

Communism and US Military Responses

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at containment policies in the Cold War. The efforts of the US to contain communism are...

UN Speech of Mikhail Gorbachev

In five pages Soviet President Gorbachev's 1988 speech delivered to the United Nations is analyzed....

Post Communist Europe and the Free Market Economy of Russia

In six pages this essay discusses Russia after the collapse of Communism and problematic efforts to initiate a free market economy...

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

In six pages this paper considers the Great Terror of 1930s Russia within the context of the novel and discusses how Stalin's purg...

Communist Russia and Marxism

In seven pages communism in Russia and Marxist ideology are contrasted and compared with their differences emphasized. Four sourc...

Postwar Communism and its Spread

In four pages this paper examines how communism spread from Russia to elsewhere following the Second World War. Six sources are c...

Russia and the Downfall of Communism

In four pages this paper discusses Russia and the downfall of communism and argued it was doomed to meet such a fate. Five source...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Post Second World War Economy of Russia

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

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...

Sikorski's Full Circle: A Homecomoing to Free Poland

the stories of his own childhood in a Communist country and the stories of his family and its heritage. Layer upon layer of Sikor...

Eastern Europe, The Fall of Communism

example, Georges Perecs Things: A Story of the Sixties is a novel that can be interpreted as a sociological denunciation of capita...

Manchuria and Gen. George C. Marshall

In six pages this paper examines the events in Manchuria the resulted in the rise and fall of Japan along with U.S. and Soviet int...

Russia's Housing Problems

In ten pages this position paper explores the housing crisis of Russia and is submitted to Valentina Matviyenko, Russia's Minister...

Imperial Russia's Decline

In five pages this paper considers Imperial Russia's decline, whether it was simply unfortunate or ill fated as covered in James C...