... and the dwellings the factory Diesel engines the revolving cylinders in the furnace room" (Gladkov 3). Gleb's fond memories of the factory in the early paragraphs of the novel suggest his passion; indeed, the industry seems to be a living, essential part of him. While this description alone represents a strictly idealized communist, Gladkov goes further to describe the pain Gleb experiences as well upon his arrival, particularly when he becomes nostalgic about his ... abandoned their posts, and the factory-the heart and pride of the proletariat-is nearly abandoned. The grime, terror, an...

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Today, many people are informed about nationalism. It becomes an actual political topic for debates nowadays. But, few people got down to the core of nationalism, how it aroused and developed. Some scholars think that nationalism emerged when the first people appeared in the World. The others believe that Nationalism is a form of extreme patriotism and suggest some ways how ... those that one is disposed to make again. It supposes a past, it renews itself especially in the present by a tangible deed: the approval, the desire, clearly expressed, to continue the communal life. The existence of ...

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... were lured to West Berlin with the promise of higher salaries. In 1959 about 144,000 persons fled; in 1960 the figure rose to 199,000; and in the first seven months of 1961, about 207,000 left the country. German Democratic Republic leader Walter Ulbricht vents his frustration to Khrushchev in the following discourse: West Berlin has strengthened economically. This is seen in the fact that about 50,000 workers from East ... they would buy things with that money in West Berlin. Certainly, it was in the best interest of the future of the GDR to limit access to West Berlin. By the late 195...

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... zones in the East, and the country would remain that way until the fall of the Soviet empire. As Truman became more informed about Stalin and his plans, he began to associate Stalin with the corrupt people Truman was acquainted with in his past. Truman saw Stalin as a gangster and felt that his requests were unreasonable, and would therefore, not oblige to them. By the end ... changed American foreign policy to revolve around the containment and rollback of communism. It was the beginning of mass hysteria within the United States and a direct result of American involvement in the Korea...

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... so much destruction. These actions changed the face of world relations not only then but forever. The U.S. and the Soviet Union has been in a race to try and create an atomic bomb before the other could. The U.S. won the race but the Soviets succeeded in creating their own atomic bomb. The U.S. feared the spread of communism and also the idea that the Soviets would use their atomic weapons on the U.S. President Harry Truman and his ... Taiwan as a major hot spot in the world but this might become an invalid assumption in the near future. Another issue of interest between the U.S. and Ch...

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... the USA in the 1970s The Iranian revolution began in January 1978 and ended with the Shah's replacement by an Islamic fundamentalist government in February 1979. The subsequent seizure of the American embassy in Tehran, together with the failed rescue attempt and the Iran-Contra 'arms for hostages' scandal, represented a humiliating and painful period for American diplomacy, and is all the more remarkable for the extremely close relations previously enjoyed by the two countries. The traumatic collapse of the ... , especially towards Great Britain, the pre-eminent power throughout much of...

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The Fall of Communism in Russia The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. Remark during a visit to the U.S. Quoted in: Independent (London, 13 Sept. 1989). The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful bond between ... public participation in government, and in turn the lack of communication by the government with the ...

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... groups of Communist and non Communist nations. It was called the cold war because it did not really result in fighting. According to the article on the cold war in the World Book 2000 encyclopedia , on compact disc, the cold war began at the end of the second world war. It was symbolized by mutual distrust suspicion and misunderstanding by the United States , the Soviet Union and their allies . At these instances these ... be lifted. Currently there is legislation in effect that is being introduced by five senators who see the need for the lift of this embargo. Secondly all restrains th...

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... and Justice Systems The lack of the legislation in many key areas of the economic decisions being made is a great conflict in the new Russia. The unpredictability of the business regulations and private business agreements is very unstable. The crime rate has and still is moving up little by little which is increasing cost for Russia on both there local and foreign businesses. The justice system in Russia is just about as weak ... as its judicial system. Russia has a lot of matters that are dealt with by administrative authority in other ... ...

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... privatization. And neither does it seem to care much about democracy. At the same time, privatization has contributed greatly to the popular conviction that marketization has been deeply unjust: state assets were distributed disproportionately to insiders, to people willing to skirt the letter of the law, and in many cases to outright criminals. Official corruption and the lack of fair and enforced laws and clearly-defined property ... , and predictable democratic patterns never quite crystallize- (Smitter 61). The 1993 Constitution excaberates this problem by placing enormous power in t...

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... to see this as an actual cause of the Cold War, as the world was very different then, than it is in the twentieth century and it didn't involved the U.S. The seeds of hostility between the United States and the U.S.S.R began near the end of World War I. The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn ... was ever in a serious war, the world's population (especially Russia) knew that the end of the world could come about. The Hiroshima bom...

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... States overland exploration of the American West and Pacific Northwest, beginning in May 1804 and ending in September 1806. The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by army officers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The exploration covered a total of about 13,000-km (about 8000 mi.), from a camp outside St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back. Like other scholars in his time, Jefferson believed in the existence of a Northwest ... Passage, or some kind of water connection between the Atlantic and Pacific ... ...

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... of Western Europe came to rest solely in NATO. By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's share of defending Western Europe against attack. The Soviet response came only in 1955, when the significantly placed West Germany joined NATO. The Warsaw Pact of the Eastern European Mutual Assistance Treaty overseen by the USSR, kept strict control over other countries in the pact. Considering that, in the late 1990's it was too costly to keep ... time to try and ensure that they have a world to live in. The international system bases its policies of each states "national interest" or "global...

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... the true knowledge given to the Soviet Union by American spies have been published. One of the most respected, "Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy" by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, was published by Times Book Corp., NYC. The role of the brilliant American physicist, Theodore Hall, and other specific scientists is documented in this book. Hall and his collegues. gave vital information about the atomic bomb to the ... Soviet Union. This thorough authoritive account of a-bomb spies does not contain one reference to the Rosenbergs (NYSCP 5). Harvard ...

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... up its military capabilities: the new budget, adopted by the Congress, were provided very high costs for the army and navy, in 1946-1947, amounting to 13 bln. Dollars - about 40% of the total budget of 36 billion. dollars, which is more than 10 times higher than the costs in 1938. The geographical position of the United States played an important role in the prosperity of America in the war years, in the new conditions created certain ... points and radio stations in the Pacific Ocean - 258 bases. In a series of measures designed to strengthen the military power of the United States, an...

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... produced from near-term events, made Nixon the right man and the right president at the right time. By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. Détente, therefore, was implemented in earnest under Nixon precisely to lessen these tensions and bring about some measure of stability. Détente ... , a French word meaning to "relax tension", began in a limited measure ... ...

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... its influence in Europe was NATO. In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. Russia's weakness has been used largely by the US, which increased its manor in Europe to the greatest extent ... since the beginning of the Cold War. The ... ...

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... to really oppress the Russians and the Jews that lived within the empire that was ruled firmly by Tsar. The Tsar government was indeed focusing on indulging in the war that was impending and so measures were taken to build up the army. These measures included the snatching of the young men as well as horses from the peasants and locals in the empire in order to increase the resources of the army. The result of this ... Lenin's top lieutenant in the decades before power. This explains the plan to destroy Trotsky who was in line for power after Lenin's death, later in 1926. In his new rol...

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... one system to another, in our case the transition from the Cold War to the post Cold War era, by serving as an analytic tool. If we view the international relations of Asia, more and the interactions of the main actors in terms of strategic configurations and geometric patterns of alignments and oppositions, then we can assess changes in the political system over time by way of the changes in the strategic geometry. Some strategic ... just turn towards one actor in the system, or one player in the Strategic Quadrangle, to see the preoccupation with strategic geometry. As Mandlebaum stat...

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... Now Kennedy was a young, inexperienced president and after the Bay of Pigs he really needed to improve his image, so he had to think carefully about what option to choose. In B3 it says that the majority of the Ex. Comm. wanted a conventional air strike followed by an invasion. However, Robert Kennedy, the president's brother wanted the naval blockade, which would keep out Soviet goods but ... not force Khrushchev to react immediately. The advantage of the naval blockade, as Robert Kennedy saw it, was ... play a fairly large part in stopping The Cuban Missile Crisis. The last two source...

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... abundant natural resources. In this way, the Far East has been characterized by its industrial structure dependent on natural resources. The self-sufficiency of foods in the Far East is only about 50%. Necessary foods and other consumer goods have been provided by the European Russia and other Republics, which are far to the west. As a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the regional connection in the country was cut off ... . Most of the business partners within a country reappeared as foreigners. The most important artery that ... ...

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... attacks Russia by name because they know "the Soviet Union is likely to find practical ways to respond to hostile remarks"5 In the past, Russia has taken over areas and set up puppet governments without the approval of the United Nations and no one says a word for fear that two or three years later Russia and its allies may take revenge. China is very sensitive about anything ... always voted for Taiwanese representation. Other countries are so worried about China's hatred that when a Haiti President mentioned Taiwan in a speech to the United Nations in 1994, Haitian diplomats quickly s...

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... use of technology to help man conquer nature. The fastest advances in technology have occurred with the start of the industrial revolution. Thus the time since the industrial revolution have shown the greatest effects of technology on nature. Advances in technology have been fueled by many factors such as desire for increased quality of life, strength in war and possession of power. Historically, the concept of technology vs. nature is significant ... of 4 million and use of mobility against a tired German army, they would bring about a turning point in the war. Not long after, Germany ...

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... to service in the Red Army. But with a request by the Central Headquarters to increase the partisan movement, the draft included distribution of draftees, mostly peasant now, into the partisan ranks. As a result, "Peasants conscripted in the occupied territories constituted about 50 percent of the partisan movement's rank-and-file strength" (Armstrong 150). Despite the losses suffered by the partisan bands, the war was being won by the Soviet Union who had by then already defeat the Germans at ... Stalingrad, and who were steadily pushing the front lines Westward. In 1944 the Soviet par...

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... and economic system."" These strategies ultimately failed, however, as the economic situation of the Soviet Union grew worse. The people felt threatened by change rather than embracing it, and this led to the eventual collapse of communism in the USSR. The Sinatra doctrine is so called as a reference to Frank Sinatra's song, I Did It My Way. It came about when the Soviet foreign ministry commented that Eastern Europe was doing ... it their way. This was the end of the Brezhnev doctrine which was a, declaration by Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev in November 1968 that members of the Warsaw...

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