... by building additional passages of the Nabucco Gas Pipeline, and how this step forward will most likely affect Turkey's economic future and long-term status with the EU. The proposed Nabucco Gas Pipeline is the new flagship project of the diversification strategy. Once in operation, this pipeline will make Turkey an alternative energy corridor for the EU. This will positively affect EU ... Turkey's role in European security of energy supply, the relative utility of the proposed Nabucco Project for both EU and Turkey and its possible affects on Turkey's membership possibility in future. In...

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... France's occupation of Tunisia, Italy approached Germany and asked to join the alliance. When another Balkan war erupted, the Three Emperor's League was crippled once again and Russia was lost. However, Bismarck was able to maintain Austria and Italy as allies and the Triple Alliance was formed. Also, in ... the prospect of a strong Germany navy, but the Germans, seemingly nonsensically, rejected British treaty proposals between 1898 and 1901, expecting greater concessions in the future. The end result of these maneuvers was the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain, which was not a...

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... Chinese were as vociferous about issues of sovereignty. Harris 7 Shirk maintained that the Mao-led revolution, which culminated in victory in 1949, had been fueled by "an intense patriotism: ... once China had 'stood up,' no infringement on its sovereignty, no matter how small, should be permitted" (Shirk 53). These feelings were manifested in denying foreign businessmen long-term, multiple entry ... by the central government for Shanghai within the last year (Zuckerman D1). These public works projects include new sewers, a new water system, new gas lines, a new bridge, and extensive roa...

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... pattern. Between 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested eight times; he was exiled seven times and escaped six times. The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married ... Poland. In order to deflect criticism for this, Stalin later blamed Trotsky and Tukhachevsky for the defeat, calling Tukhachevsky a traitor (and once Stalin came to power, Tukhachevsky was to eventually pay for this alleged treason and others with his life). Despite the Bolshevik defeat in ... the memb...

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... pattern. Between 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested eight times; he was exiled seven times and escaped six times. The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married ... Poland. In order to deflect criticism for this, Stalin later blamed Trotsky and Tukhachevsky for the defeat, calling Tukhachevsky a traitor (and once Stalin came to power, Tukhachevsky was to eventually pay for this alleged treason and others with his life). Despite the Bolshevik defeat in ... the memb...

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... much less in Germany when compared to Stalin. First, in Stalin's Russia, his Five Year Plans controlled the national economy. Once assuming control, Stalin planned for five years into the future using these legislative acts. He aimed to make Russia militarily and industrially self sufficient, build a foundation for a worker's society, ... he blamed a fire in the Reichstag building on Dutch communists, which caused a "Red Scare ", and allowed for him to easily win the election. Once in office, he took the title of Fuhrer and assumed absolute control of the government and absolute soverei...

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... Civil War from 1917-1922. The Russian provisional government was put into place after the long Tsarist regime in 1917, but was ousted after only eight months, once the Bolsheviks took power after the October Revolution. These new leaders preached communism which changed the societal culture throughout Russia; however, many Russian peasants were hesitant toward ... Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of this new party and was viewed by many as a tyrant who would significantly influence future Russian political parties. Vertov had to please the leade...

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... the avant-garde fail victim to the very monster they helped to construct. In October 1917, the Red Army joined the Revolutionists and put down once and for all the Tsarist Régime that had reigned over Russian since the fifteenth century. The streets were filled with joy, as all ... method of identifying a people with a cause" (221). The Soviet ideology was thus set in place and implemented through the Russian avant-garde. A utopian future lay ahead of the people for Russian and for this moment in history a vision of opulence and glee seemed to be on the rise. The best ... content, new fo...

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... . I believe that this conflict was a very important because it was a crucial part of the cold war, and it helped shape the way the world was going to be in the future. Not only did it affect the cold war buy stopping the spread of communism in the Middle East, but it affected the ... future as well by creating the Mujahedeen, known today as the Taliban. Some say that this war was Russia's very own version of Vietnam. By the end of it, tens of ... , it would help the spread of communism in the Middle East. Amin started to disagree with Russia on the idea of a total communist government, ...

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... what they do and the characters lack of self-awareness, therefore distancing them further from reality. The characters in "The Cherry Orchard" have constant disconnected views and conversations of the future and life. Loparhkin is part of the rising class, whereas most of the other characters in the play like Lyubov, Gayev, are in the rapidly declining class and have no ... of Lyubov's life, which is quite sad and oppressive. During the time Chekhov wrote the play, "The Cherry Orchard," Russia was undergoing a vast social change. The landed gentry, the landowners once thought of as the ...

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... wires were concentrated in the hands of the crown and its staff meant that in a time of crisis the state would instantly disintegrate: for once the monarch went, these wires snapped, and there was nothing left to hold the political structure of Russia together. This was exactly what happened ... bearing their weight upon it. The tsar would soon abdicate his throne, and a provisional government was put in place to establish equilibrium in Russia once more. But it was corrupted and weak, setting the stage for the Bolshevik triumph (Satter 101). A revolution- coming of full circle- in ... ....

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... was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. "The atomic bomb ... once again strengthened the belief that our air forces have the ultimate weapon, that would allow the United States to impose a kind of" Pax Americana »- such, for example, was the ... century, changing shape the foreign policy of nuclear states to develop nuclear program "are not nuclear" countries. We can assume that in world politics and international relations in the foreseeable future "atomic dip...

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... a communist Russia and as a result Russia undertook many great surges of growth and decline. The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. Lenin and his party took control of Petrograd block by block using the MRC under the command of Trotsky. Lenin as an individual played an essential role in the ... of its support and power through the actions of the Bolsheviks, most significantly the Kornilov affair and the Lenin's persuasion of the soviet to support the Bolshevik seizure of power. Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, con...

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... taught Alexander. Due to Catherine's ruthless and steadfast personality she did not see her son as a fitting heir to the throne. She raised Alexander herself and transferred her visions for a future Russia to who she thought the true heir of Russia should be. Frédéric-César de La Harpe, who was a famous encyclopaedist and enlightened thinker, and was ... " and unite the continent in peace and unity. Catherine's visions for Alexander led him to show his power as a reformist and in foreign policy, hoping to better the nation. Once he took over after the death of Paul I, he created an "i...

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Once an empire stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea including parts of Georgia and Syria, Armenia was at its largest during the early 1st century BC under the ... caused the Armenian economy to struggle. The Soviet Union left Armenia dependent upon trade with countries like Azerbaijan to survive, but the two nations have had poor relations since independence. Once Armenia was dependent upon Azerbaijan for oil and natural gas, but economic blockades by Azerbaijan and sympathizing nations forced Armenia to reopen a nuclear power plant, overuse old hydroelectric plants, and ...

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... " to destroy the "Leftists," and then, when his position was secure, turning on Bukharin and destroying his power. ! By 1930, he stood alone atop the Party and the Soviet Union. Once in power, Stalin began a drive to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union, with a Five-Year Plan (1927-32) based on Marxist principles championing government control of the economy. Central to ... personality" rose to overwhelming prominence in the Soviet Union, as history was rewritten to make him the hero of every circumstance, his writings were handed out to schoolchildren with a reverence once reser...

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... the third of April 1917, with Lenin's return to Russia, he announced a republic for Soviet of Workers, Poor Peasants and Peasants" Deputies, and his "April Theses" - his plans for the future. He was the one that demanded that there would no longer be cooperation with the provisional government and was so insistent on the ending of the war. Through sheer force ... . The "Red Terror", enforced by the Red Guards against class enemies followed soon after; protests came in rapid succession and in particular, was the Kronstadt Rebellion March 1921. The sailors, once staunch supporters of the B...

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... away and still get sick. This is mainly because nuclear contaminates don't stay in the same place. They have the ability to move throughout lengthy distances contaminating everything the radius. Once nuclear contaminates have entered an environment it is very difficult to control them. One solution that is commonly used in, where nuclear accidents have taken place is to just abandon ... is most likely that they will suffer from various illnesses and diseases. Some diseases include, black lung disease, lung cancer, and bone cancer. Eventually these diseases will be spread to future gener...

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... and Asia, has eliminated the protection of oceans and distance by advances in air transportations and weaponry. That meant that the US could not return to its pre-war isolationism. Once Germany had been defeated in 1945 the war time allies between the USA, UK and the USSR began to break up. A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. He wanted ... theory. The revisionists would say that those actions were only defensive and were justified after Russia had lost about twenty million soldiers and civilians in the German attack. Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the followin...

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... build houses around the monasteries forcing those who inhabit those houses to convert to Christianity. The Orthodox Church would continue building residences until villages began popping up everywhere a monastery appeared. Once a village was built up enough, they would again move further into the unsettled areas of Kievan Russia trying to, and mostly succeeding, spread the Christian religion. Not only did the ... political Russian entity now within Moscow's walls, Moscow became a political and economic center, even before the Tver uprising. The combination of these two events ultimately...

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... greater freedom and autonomy in the lower echelons. Soviet industry displayed a flexibility and "organizational power which belied it's bureaucratic image" . Whilst in the short term it lead to equipment shortages once the factories were re-assembled, the Soviet Union had a strong manufacturing base to fuel their military resurgence. Agriculturally, collectivized farms provided the state with steady grain procurements ensuring cities could ... , after the war it earned the title of "Hero City." Nine Soviet scientists starved whilst protecting the world's largest seed bank, refusing to ea...

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... of the Russian people. She offered to let each class share their different ideas with her, and promised she would take them into consideration when forming new legislation in the future. The commission brought many concerns of the Russian citizens to the table. Between July of 1767 and October of 1768 the commission met formally to debate their concerns, until Catherine ... the rest of his life. However, this military status of nobility dies with the individual, so their families and heirs do not enjoy the same noble status that the serviceman once did. The noblemen also established the...

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... make "moonshine" caused a bread shortage that lead Nicholas II being overthrown. Eventually Lenin was forced to end prohibition to gain the revenue that the empire under the vodka monopoly had once enjoyed. Thus, the alcoholic ways of Russia returned and have continued to this day. Patricia Herlihy's illustration of Russia's struggles with alcohol is a very interesting and tragic view of a country ... come out of the temperance work against alcoholism. The research and treatment methods that were explored at the height of the temperance movement must have resulted in some good for futur...

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... out; or else there would be outrage. In areas of America with large Polish populations, Pennsylvania for example, anti-Communists sentiments burned with a vengeance. They made calls to "halt at once the vicious red program of world enslavement."" By the late 1940s, anti-Communism of the most militant shades had a firm foundation among those ethnic groups with roots in Eastern Europe ... . Winston Churchill was, like Roosevelt, "distressed-, on the eve of the Yalta meeting because of the deadlock in the negotiations that was going on at the same time over the future of Polish government. ...

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... ideal. The promise of the elimination of classes, of guaranteed employment , "The creation of a comprehensive social security and welfare system for all citizens that would end the misery of workers once and for all." Lenin's own interpretation of the Marxian critique was that to achieve Communism there would first have to be a socialist dictatorship to first suppress any dissent or protest ... considerable stress on them because they had to take the job assigned to them, and if it was an undesirable one it could ruin their chances for advancement in the future. This was such a tense is...

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