Russian & Former Soviet Union

Central and East European Politics: From Communism to

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Dennis Prager wrote in the Dec. 17, 2010 Jewish Journal: How could I miss something that I never had? The number of universities offering Single Honours Russian language-literature degrees has declined year on year, and is now effectively restricted to a handful including Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between pro-revolution Reds and counter-revolution Whites.

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The Wild East: Crime and Lawlessness in Post-communist

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Looking as objectively as we can at the situation, Putin’s strategy in Syria thus far has a mixed record. Russian general director Anatoly Kazakov stated "Hopefully, we have paved the way for additional foreign investment in Russia's petroleum sector." During the first five months of the Soviet-German War, German-Anglo-American experts claimed it would collapse within months, or even weeks! In contrast, dropouts often remained in apartments or hotels until transferred to Rome where they received housing and assistance in obtaining visas to the United States and elsewhere.

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Russia and the Council of Europe: 10 Years After

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I do not think they have real chances to achieve anything,” he said. In my opinion, in this case, the oral law undermines its own brilliance. For example, the PRC quoted French attacks on the NATO alliance with approval and saw the Common Market as smaller nations banding together to stand up to the larger powers. [64] In 1969, Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua and Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang met with diplomats at the Soviet Embassy in Peking to celebrate the 52nd Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

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Russia's Policies in the Caucasus (RIIA Former Soviet South)

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The USSR remained a powerhouse republic through the Second World War and the Cold War; however its prosperity began to suffer as the turn of the century neared. Quite clearly, then, this, like most other products of their collaboration, was in the main a joint work of the two founders of marxism and points to an impressive unity and continuity over four decades in the basic outlines of their thought. My father I know got a big kick out of it.

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Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-1964 (St Antony's)

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It is a work of very high quality scholarship that offers a vast amount of new information, lucid, detailed explanations, and compelling arguments.” Oleh Havrylyshyn, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto “This book is probably the most important contribution to the study of energy, politics, and international political economy in the postsocialist world in recent years. The USSR remained a powerhouse republic through the Second World War and the Cold War; however its prosperity began to suffer as the turn of the century neared.

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Politics in Russia

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As a result, many former apparatchiks abandoned the Communist Party in favor of positions in new government structures. The accomplishment represented the construction of 88 border markers and the erection of nine poles marking the positions for future markers, fulfilling the set plan. As the second son, JFK never expected to be the one who would fulfill his father's dream of raising the first Catholic president.

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The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy (Routledge

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In addition to the socio-demographic characteristics, the respondents answered questions regarding their citizenship status in the host country and their plans to keep their citizenship in the FSU. Dalrymple, Dana G. "The Soviet Famine of 1932-1934: Some Further References." Once a relatively affluent part of the USSR, with independence Georgia lost the cheap energy to which it had access in the Soviet period. Globalization, telecommunication and virtual ethnic communities. However, Yeltsin showed the still inchoate and even contradictory character of Russian foreign policy by making several references to conciliatory, Western-oriented policies.

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Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of

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DVD X6403 Directors, Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg. The names on the latter list were rarely on the first-night list.” On June 22, 2010, Dennis said: “We had a one-month session…to teach kids Judaism. Between 1974 and 1980, while the United States wallowed in post-Vietnam angst, 10 countries had fallen into the Soviet orbit: South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South Yemen, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Grenada and Afghanistan.

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The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation

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On one hand, the Helsinki Accords contributed to the parity between the USSR and the United States. In Soviet usage, local war usually referred to a war waged by capitalist countries against "wars of national liberation." From 1979 to 1982, US oil consumption declined at an incredible 5% per year, with no growth in the economy during that period, and a major recession (EIA and Economic Report to the President various years). Several of the countries have been troubled by separatist movements and quasi-autonomous regions within them.

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The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the

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This program saw no alternative to shifting toward a market economy but provided neither a detailed plan nor a schedule for implementation. Such divisions may be wrong in Prager's view, but they are a fact of life. The anticosmopolitan trends of these years adversely affected Jewish cultural and scientific figures in particular. The Operation Barbarossa (the code name for Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II) was a gigantic military operation that consumed millions of lives creating massive waves of psycho trauma among the people.

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