... industrialized states of Eastern Europe. Moving onto production and investment, Hungary is quite detailed. Annual national income in Hungary, as in other centrally planned economies, is measured in terms of net material product (NMP), which assigns values to material goods and "productive" services. In Hungary the NMP includes the values of the goods and services provided by forestry, mining, manufacturing, construction ... to import it and use the resources thus released to produce another item. In trading with non-Communist countries, Hungary has imposed the requirement of "zero-balan...

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... build up a strong economy and fully recover from the revelation of the "truth". "The truth refutes the benevolent and optimistic theories of man and the universe" Anonymous (http://www.pernet-net/~chadly 1/lord_of_the_flies) The truth or reality is sometimes difficult to bear. Society cannot bear the truth about many things. It is easier to let "sleeping dogs lie ... is forced further and further into a position of isolation until he climbs so high in his ivory tower that he can only commune with the spirits." (Vesta, http://www.pernet-net/~chadly 1/lord_of_the_flies) Simon represents t...

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... . I will first address the zero-sum game, which is structured in a way in which what a side gains, the other side automatically loses. Such that one side gains unequivocally an equal net loss of the other side, in other words the conflict is absolute. In a diplomatic ambit, this would be a dispute over territory in which both States want the same portion of ... ...

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... this upheaval. A major resentment of the peasantry to collectivism was surrendering livestock. Many peasants chose to kill their on livestock rather than surrender them to the state. This had the net result of, after six years of collectivisation began. When the government came to realise the increasing amount of unrest that was growing among the peasants as a result of the government ... ...

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... -44. This "economic miracle" was down to Russia's creation of a "Total War" economy; Soviet industry abandoned almost all civilian production and turned into a "war camp." 76% of the Soviet Union's Net National Product went to the war, a higher proportion than any other nation involved in WWII . In Stalin's words the Eastern Front was a "war of the entire Soviet people." When men ... ...

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... and opened up a great deal of land for farming. "42 million hectares of land, mostly in Northern Kazakhstan, were ploughed and sown for the first time, starting in 1954, with a net gain of 30-40 million hectares to the total area sown to crops in the USSR" (Hanson 54). Khrushchev's formula was simple and would prove to effective in the short ... ...

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... and opened up a great deal of land for farming. "42 million hectares of land, mostly in Northern Kazakhstan, were ploughed and sown for the first time, starting in 1954, with a net gain of 30-40 million hectares to the total area sown to crops in the USSR" (Hanson 54). Khrushchev's formula was simple and would prove to effective in the short ... ...

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... to use monopoly power as sellers. It has mistakenly homogenized the diversity of Mongolia's "traditional" society (i.e. the herders) and unsurprisingly has had no role to play in constructing a social safety-net or in preventing the emergence of serious poverty. Privitization thus appears to have been an economic failure and very costly to the lives most Mongolians. According to Griffin, "the emphasis ... ...

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... ]. Available: http://www.rferl.org/nca/special/10years/ussr1.html. CNN Interactive (Russian Archive). [On-Line]. Available: http://www.cnn.com Everything about Russia. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.russia.net (1999, December 6) Kennedy P. (1987). Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000: The rise and the fall of the great powers. New York: Random House. Reid H. Robert (2001). Fall ... ...

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... should stay out of business and put their focuses in Russia. Perestroika was indented for a more profit motives, quality controls, private ownership in agriculture, decentralization, and multi-candidate elections. (Russia.net). It gave the Russian a greater degree of freedom and allowed people to have freedom in speech and voiced their criticisms about the communism. Also, private corporation was encouraged; farmers were ... ...

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... neither West nor East Germany had a say in the other's decision on whether to form a unified state or what conditions such a unification would be contingent upon, respectively. Put simply, the net effect of the extension of the Basic Law to all of Germany did not guarantee the implementation of a new joint governing policy or a new constitution for the country. It seemed ... ...

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... neither West nor East Germany had a say in the other's decision on whether to form a unified state or what conditions such a unification would be contingent upon, respectively. Put simply, the net effect of the extension of the Basic Law to all of Germany did not guarantee the implementation of a new joint governing policy or a new constitution for the country. It seemed ... ...

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