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Economic Interests and Foreign Policy of the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States

In five pages this paper examines these three countries in an overview of how economic interests often influence foreign policy. ...

John Lewis Gaddis' We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...

International Upheaval in 1979

In this five page report the author discusses several key political events occurring with Supertramp in the backstage. The Irania...

The Cold War and Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames worked. According to one Western intelligence official, the commitment of Ames to his task was absolute, he acted ...

Gorbachev’s Reforms

capitalism. However, taking a perceptive that considers the goals that Gorbachev hoped to accomplish, that is, to provide the "sal...

Questions on Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964)

This paper offers analysis of film clips from Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964). Three pages in length, two sour...

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...

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...

Overview of Art Career of Tahir Salahov

Salahovs Repair Workers (1960, Baku Museum of the Visual Arts).10 This orientation is also clear in Oil Rocks in the Caspian, w...

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, ...

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...

Overview of Perestroika from 1985 to 1991

understand Perestroika is by looking at it in retrospect, it is only with the developments that have occurred afterwards that the ...

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...

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...

1980s' Revolution in Romania and Poland

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

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...

Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

Soviet Experiment by Suny, the Leadership of Vladimir Lenin and the Dictatorship of Joseph Stalin

methods were condemned after his death. The year of 1917 was a very tumultuous one in Russia as it not...

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...

Ivan the Terrible, Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

his cheek, he has a look that mixes fear and trepidation with determination. With this, Eisenstein introduces the idea that the Ts...

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...

Legacies of Josef Stalin

(Conan). And when he was died, he was embalmed and revered, so much so that he was on display in the Lenin Mausoleum for years fol...

U.S. Foreign Policies of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev

Stalins totalitarian rule and approach resolution to political struggles without the need for war. This stance did not hold for l...

Conclusion of the Cold War and American Foreign Policy

disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...

The Collapse of Enron

is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...

Stock Market and the Influence of Technology

except that a certain financier over extended himself and caused several banks to fail that had extended him credit. This particul...

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Mid 1980s' Collapse of the S and L Industry

Determining whether history would repeat itself and could therefore be predicted was one of the hopes of some. However it was fou...

Dot.com Corporate Survival

make a profit. Millions of dollars were spent to grab the real estate. But Pets.com seemed to have overestimated the real number...

Government of Chile's Formation by Politics

parties were displaced from circles of power - the only time in the history of that country that it happened (Valenzuela, 2001)....