... , but slave labor camps date from Stalin's regime. By 1931 2 million people worked for GULAG primarily in Siberia and the Far East. Slaves came from all walks of life: kulaks, orthodox believers, bourgeois specialists, borderland minorities, and other "class enemies". Slavery became an important factor in the calculations of all Five Year Plans, including the first. In November 1927, Joseph Stalin ... of the USSR. In the immediately preceding years the central emphasis of Soviet policy had been on "building socialism", that is, on the industrialization of the country. The seizure of east...

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... , but slave labor camps date from Stalin's regime. By 1931 2 million people worked for GULAG primarily in Siberia and the Far East. Slaves came from all walks of life: kulaks, orthodox believers, bourgeois specialists, borderland minorities, and other "class enemies". Slavery became an important factor in the calculations of all Five Year Plans, including the first. In November 1927, Joseph Stalin ... of the USSR. In the immediately preceding years the central emphasis of Soviet policy had been on "building socialism", that is, on the industrialization of the country. The seizure of east...

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... many people in Russia have been attracted to various religious faiths. The revived Russian nationalism movement has recognized the Russian Orthodox Church as an important element in Russian culture. Russian Orthodox Church originated at the end of the 10th century, when missionaries from Byzantium converted the ruler of Kiev an Rus ... been the dominant faith of the Russian people. There are other Christian denominations as well, though none as large as the Orthodox. These include the Old Believers, which was a movement that stemmed from Orthodoxy in the 17th century, and Baptist and Eva...

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... - over 27 million people. Despite the fact that the war seriously affected the socio-economic situation of the country, it also gave a powerful impetus to the economic development of the eastern part, which has been difficult in peacetime. Restoration work began to be carried out as the liberation of the occupied territories. The rapid rise of the national economy contributed monolithic ... unbearable burden on the military. Fearing a possible destabilization of the Soviet Union did not go to a sharp decline in the armed forces, and used them to strengthen their domination in Eastern Euro...

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... order in Europe. The main tool being used to extend 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 ... further than Germany and that was the thing on which Gorbachev based his foreign policy. "The Clinton administration reneged on that commitment when it decided to expand NATO to Eastern Europe". The controversy surrounding this matter abated brief...

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... "ie, which literally means Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus. Despite the ongoing debates over the borders of Europe, most of the scholars tend to consider the region to be the south-eastern angle of Europe. Transcaucasus has borders with Turkey and Iran in the South and Russia in the North and is surrounded with Black Sea from the West and Caspian Sea ... tongue within the Indo-European family. The Azeris are Muslim, the overwhelming majority of which is Shiite, although there are few Sunnis in the North. The Armenians and Georgians are Orthodox with their religious centers in Echmiadz...

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