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Funk Wagnalls Soviet Socialist
1,398 wordsJoseph Stalin (1927 - 1953) led the Soviet State through the challenges of World War II. Although the war was a terrible drain on the already impoverished and exhausted society, it resulted, paradoxically in strengthening the Soviet dictatorship. The war distracted the Soviet people from Stalin's excesses in previous years and generated patriotism and national unity. It also greatly strengthened the Soviet military. The Soviet Union emerged from the war as second in power only to the United Stat...
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Russia Vs United States
1,074 words... nary War of the United States, but it is not the same because it ended in communism and repression, rather than gradual democracy that occurred in America (Melvin 68). People in Russia do not have the concept of how a democracy functions because they have no experience with it. They went from having tsars to communism, they " ve never had a real democratic government until recently. People are used to serving the state whereas in America people are used to referring to government officials a...
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Russian Federation Communist Regime
2,106 wordsIntroduction The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. Russia faces the seemingly impracticable task of economic liberalization and democ...
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Free Market Economy Members Of Parliament
1,086 wordsBoris Yeltsin's Economic Reforms and Political Struggles Russia's Move Towards a Free-Market Economy Chechnya's Struggle for Independence Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Questions About Yeltsin's Leadership In 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dismantled, and the communist regime there came to an end. Democracy has since been introduced in Russia and other former Soviet republics, and in 1992 the people of the Russian Republic elected Boris Yeltsin -- a pro democracy, pro capitalism...
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Tsar Nicholas Tsarist Rule
1,544 wordsEssay On Nicholas Romanov "Nicholas Romanov was an ignorant, incompetent and insensitive leader. His character was the decisive factor in bringing on the revolution"The last Tsar of Russia was a tragic figure a classic case of being a leader in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing within his power could have prevented the forces of change from overtaking Tsarist Russia. " To what extent do you agree with these explanations of the collapse of autocracy in Russia? Nicholas Romanov was an ind...
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Russian Civil War U S S R
1,220 wordsSources of Bolshevik Victory in the Revolution and the Civil War While speaking about the political history of the U. S. S. R. it is necessary to say about economic, social, or cultural concerns. They help to understand the impact of Party-State decisions. Richard Sakwa in his work "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: 1917 - 1991 " says that the history of the Soviet Union was the history of a struggle of the Party leadership about the accommodation of Leninist theories; the problems of multi...
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Organized Crime Russian Economy
1,843 wordsPrior to 1989, the Communists indirectly controlled the government of the Soviet Union. It was during the Mikhail Gorbachev era in which his openness measure of reform was challenged by the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. This incident brought about change which was subsequent to an open discussion of poverty, the waste of resources, and the Afghan conflict. Efforts of reform were made by Eastern Europe leaders to remove the Communists leaders. In 1989, there was...
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Percent Of Gdp Economic Reform
1,752 wordsPrivatization of post-communist economies: policies and results (RUSSIA). The rapid pace of privatisation of former state enterprises has been touted as one of the major successes of the Russian government's economic transformation policy. By the beginning of 1996 77. 2 % of medium-size and large enterprises had been privatised, accounting for 88. 3 % of total industrial output (Blasi, 26). At that time 63. 4 % of all enterprises and organisations were classified by the Russian State Committee o...
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Centrally Planned Soviet Union
1,868 wordsThe Centrally Planned Economy in the former Soviet Union Introduction In October of 1917, the world saw Lenin and the Bolsheviks take power in Russia, Lenin did not however have exact economic plans for Russia since Marx never provided a blueprint for a communist state and its economy. Marx saw society progress naturally through various stages of development (i. e. primitive society, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and eventually communism). Marx essentially provided a critique of capi...
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United States Of America End Of The Cold War
1,861 wordsINTRODUCTION The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40 s after WWII had left Europe in shambles and Russia and the USA in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash of these supergiants in political, ideological, military, and economic values and ideas. Though military build up was great on both sides neither one ever directly fought each other. This essay is going to bring forth the following points: Rise of th...
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Knight Ridder Tribune U S Steel
2,954 wordsForeign Dumping Of Steel INTRODUCTION Foreign steel producers plague the U. S. steel industry with unfair competitive practices. This practice is referred to as dumping. Dumping of foreign steel has been a problem throughout the history of the U. S. steel industry. In the 1990 s dumping has become more of a problem, due to the breakdown of the Russian economy and its transition from Capitalism to a free-market economy. According to Microsoft Encarta 98 (1998), Free-Market Economy, is an economic...
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Peter The Great Church And State
4,047 wordsEnglish/History 21 March 1998 Peter the Great: Father of Modern Russia Throughout history, there have been many great leaders and political figures who changed their world greatly. Of these many great people, the name of tsar Peter the First of Russia, more commonly referred to as Peter the Great, should be mentioned with the likes of Churchill, Gandhi, and Washington. He was almost solely responsible for turning Russia into a respectable economic power. During the reign of Peter the Great, from...
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Shock Therapy Economic Reform
1,310 wordsMacroeconomics 4 / 25 / 00 Formerly the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia has been an independent nation since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Because of its great size, its natural resources, and its political domination, the Russian Federation played a leading role in the economy of the Soviet Union. In the years preceding the disintegration of the union in 1991, the economy of Russia and the union as a whole was in decline. In 1992, immediatel...
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Shock Therapy Economic Reform
1,313 wordsThomas J Milone-Clapp Macroeconomics 4 / 25 / 00 Formerly the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia has been an independent nation since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Because of its great size, its natural resources, and its political domination, the Russian Federation played a leading role in the economy of the Soviet Union. In the years preceding the disintegration of the union in 1991, the economy of Russia and the union as a whole was in declin...
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York Random House Organized Crime
2,252 wordsProtectionism in the New Capitalist Russia The Russian Mafia has always exercised an important role in the Russian economy. The contemporary mafiosi are descendents of the seventeenth Century highwaymen and Cossack robbers. These men occasionally murdered families prior to raids preventing them from being captured. The Russia mafiosi made a point to remain aloof from the state. Mob men were actually spurned when returning home from fighting in the Great Patriotic War. The gangs begin to dominate...
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Tsar Nicholas Tsarist Rule
1,559 wordsEssay On Nicholas Romanov Nicholas Romanov was an ignorant, incompetent and insensitive leader. His character was the decisive factor in bringing on the revolution The last Tsar of Russia was a tragic figure a classic case of being a leader in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing within his power could have prevented the forces of change from overtaking Tsarist Russia. To what extent do you agree with these explanations of the collapse of autocracy in Russia? Nicholas Romanov was an indeci...
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International Monetary Fund Billion Dollars
953 wordsThe Russian Crisis On July 13, 1998 the Managing Director of the International Monetary fund (IMF), Michael Camdessus said, The IMF team currently in Moscow has reached an agreement with the Government of Russia on a major strengthening of Russian economic programs (IMF Board). In the agreement between the two, Russia was to receive a 22. 6 billion-dollar bailout package to help their economic crisis. The Russian Government was to submit an economic plan to cope with the crisis, and show that it...
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Five Year Plans Stalin
3,030 wordsJoanne Hawkins May 18 th 1998 HISTORY To what extent can the consolidation phase of the revolution (1923 - 1939) be called a revolution from above? Stalin? s rise to power and the subsequent introduction of his new industrially based Five Year economic plans in 1928 can be defined as a revolution from above. During the consolidation period between 1923 and 1939, he successfully industrialised Russia to such an extent that he had taken the nation from a backward, essentially peasant based society...
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Standard Of Living Soviet Union
2,595 wordsMany critics and skeptics forecast doom for post-communist Russia when 1991 saw the end to the Soviet-Union. It was believed that a collapsed economy, hurt pride, and rampant nationalism would all soon drive Russia to some sort of neo-communist or neo-fascist state. It has been almost 10 years now since the dissolution of the Soviet-Union, and this scenario has failed to arise. Some experts feel, pointing to the decisive defeat of the communists in the presidential election in July, that at this...
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