... consisted of: people's architect of the USSR, laureate of the State prize of the BSSR, the architect - artist V.A. Korol (1912-1980); people's artist of BSSR, laureate of the State prize, the sculptor A.O. Bembel (1905-1986); laureate of the Lenin prize and the Lenin Komsomol prize of Belarus, the architect V.P. Zankovitch; laureate of the State prize of the BSSR, and the artist-architect G.V. Sysoev (1919-2010); sculptor V.D. Bobyl; architect-artist V.M. Volchek (1910-1985); laureate of the State prize of the BSSR, the architect O.A. Srahovich (1935-2010); architect Y.I. Kazakov Winner...

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... The Austrian State Treaty of 1955 and the Cold War (University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political, December 1968) Fousek, John. To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism & The Cultural Roots of the Cold War. (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) Gallup, George. Survey Finds 8 out of 10 Voters Approve US Help to Korea (Washington Post, July 2nd 1950) Gladstone, William. Kin Beyond Sea. (The North American Review ... John. Khrushchev and 'Peaceful Co-existence http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war12.htm - date accessed - 19/08/15 Encyclopaedia of the New American Nation. Ex...

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... of the pool of financial instruments' (loans, stocks, currencies, etc) traded in the network of emerging markets' (Socialism Today, 1998: 2). In the aftermath of sovereign default of August 1998, the hypothesis of virtual economy in Russia developed by Gaddy and Ickes (1998) has gained popularity. The hypothesis states that the country has not moved towards free-market economy but developed a system of implicit ... (Ivanenko, V., 2001). The essence of Gaddy and Ickes hypothesis can be summarised in the following quotation "At the heart (of the virtual economy) is the ultimate pretence t...

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... was headed by Mikhail Gorbachev, who almost had not participated in the Cold War. He watched her from the side. He was free from the ideals of the Cold War, but wanted a radical overhaul of almost all international relations. With his light hand inside the Soviet Union launched the process of self-destruction, which soon determined the winner in the Cold War. Cold War some modern scholars and politicians called third world war ... of the twentieth century. System Chronicle confirms this assertion. The confrontation were involved, many countries ... ...

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... Barbara Lee calls to End the embargo on Cuba" from the site globalexchange.com . Accompanied by a team of fifteen delegates. Her mission called for a thorough review of the policy on Cuba which also includes an end to the comprehensive ban on economic trade and travel relations between the two nations. Lee lamented after her visit that the embargo has created the lost of valuable opportunity in the trade industry for American businesses ... five senators who see the need for the lift of this embargo. Secondly all restrains that prohibit the rights of citizens of the united states of Ame...

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... -81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. In the past, refugees were welcome in some countries as a means of boosting the economy of their hosts but not anymore as ... under the auspices of the League of Nations are in the assessment of this paper an eloquent testimony of the fact that the international refugee regime did not start with the ...

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... Union. Kennedy certainly did not want to go to war, but he was fully aware of the importance of the public and worldwide perception of the crisis. If the United States succumbed to the Soviets threats and bullying, then Communism and its nation allies would triumph over the free world. On a less magnanimous level, the U.S could simply not afford to lose face and by result, its standing as a superpower. Thus, Kennedy ... had strived to provide for mutually assured destruction, Kennedy tried to explore alternatives to mass destruction in the event of an altercation. By the dawn of the 196...

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... a new world organization known as the United Nations (UN) and the agreements at Yalta became "the basis of the United Nations charter."" However, the essential disagreement remained with the focus on the future of Poland. Stalin had already established a pro-communist government, but only under the agreement that pro-Western poles would be allowed to cooperate in the Warsaw regime. Stalin also agreed to hold free elections in Poland on an indeterminate ... trial, Truman initiated a program to review the loyalty of federal employees. In the years to come, those convicted of passing infor...

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... and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds. On June 17, 1972, The Washington Post published a small story in which the reporters stated that five men had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The democratic headquarters was located in a Washington, D.C. building complex called Watergate. The alleged men were caught carrying equipment to "wiretap" telephones and take pictures ... this century, the building of the interstate highway system has enabled that reinvention to continue...

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... part in world affairs. The USA, not the UN, would be the world's policeman. "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed majorities or by outside pressures. The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining those freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world." 3 The Soviets had their own ... . When NATO launched its air strikes against Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia, the user- friendly story was that the "ethnic cleansing" undertaken by the aforemention...

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... like there is little hope. If Russia doesn't learn from the collapse of the ruble it may be looking toward the collapse of its new free-market reform. Also, if the government of Russia does not do some thing to fix the currency crisis it will prove to be an even bigger challenge to keep up with the free-market reform (Schuler and Selgin, 1999). If Russia can not ... much needed help to Russia's economic system. The new reform will lower the tax burden businesses, eliminate exemptions, and shift most of the tax burden to Since the beginning of the new free-market reform in Russia, the gros...

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... unavailable, and we were told that they were dangerous to use anyway, Tatiana says. Other parts of Russian culture involve their folktales. Story telling is a world-renowned aspect of Russian culture. The Russian story telling tradition is one of the oldest and richest in the world. The big variety of Russia's peoples, stretching from the Baltic coast to Siberia, contributed countless tales comprising a shared folk heritage. These stories, or skazki, were ... firmly supports Russia's continuing progress toward a democratic society and market economy, and its further integration into the...

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... weaker and so was unable to properly threaten the U.S and become a serious rival and enemy. After the Truman Doctrine in which he said that he would contest communism whenever it expanded into free lands and when he tackled the subject of Berlin (with the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Aid) it can be seen as the start of the Cold War, as the war of supremacy seemed to be well under way ... . However, the fact that Russia had little chance to retaliate shows how the Cold War hadn't actually began at this stage. I believe the launch of Russia's first atomic bomb was the starting point of the ...

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... of others, and a desire for free will. (5) In both systems when this unequal elite inevitably emerges, the concentration of widespread power in a single space must intensify. This naturally attracts individuals seeking widespread power, or it corrupts individuals already in power with the lure of the same widespread power. (6) As a result of the government structures found in both systems, the intensification of power and control on the upper level necessarily translates into the usurpation of ... expansion. (http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/socialistmyth.html). Historical Evide...

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... on the shape of the post-war world."" America and the Soviet Union disagreed on the principles and policies that should have been implemented at the time. America was on the side of free trade and liberalisation while the Soviet Union wanted to enforce communism. Carruthers says that, the post-war stalemate resulted in the division of Europe into two camps for the next forty-five years, and the temporary solution of the German Problem' with the division of ... Germany into two separate states. The global situation in the post-World War Two time period ... ...

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... no longer an option for Castro. He decided to take to the hills and engaged in a seven year guerilla war against Batista and his supporters. He was assisted by the Argentinian Communist Revolutionary Che Guevera. Batista's government collapsed in 1959 leaving Fidel Castro in control of the island. Cuba was now free, they were no longer under foreign control. Most Cubans supported Castro ... . 75% of farmland was owned by foreigners as well as most Companies and 2 million acres ... of land, the oil refineries and electricity companies were also under USA control. Most Cuban professionals ...

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... illuminating model to study the international relations of Asia during the period. However, our emphasis is on the usefulness of the concept for studying the "transition" from Cold War to post Cold War. This requires an analysis of both systems, in order to assess the process of change. the post-Cold War era: changes in the system Today, we are in a relatively "open" period of history, free from the polarized nature of the Cold War, yet "more ... than ever each of the four powers has compelling stakes in ... ...

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... personal gain. The 1980's saw a dramatic drop in the Soviet citizens already impoverished standard of living. This caused strikes and public outcry against the administration which threatened the stability of the Soviet Union. The people were angry at the fact that the Communist Party had not lived up to what it had promised which was in return for their obedience they would receive employment, free health care, and a level of comfort. March ... 1985 marks a turning point in the Communist rule of Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev is elevated to the position of General Secretary. He is aware of ...

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The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The blame for the failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the person that the invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro, is still in power. To ... happen, that those planes that had bombed them were not their own but American. In The New York Times of the 21st o...

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... sense that logic is still be applicable for Russian affairs. But, rather the mandate should be that each country should follow its own road towards capitalism. An examination of what the Communist apparatus left in its wake should cause pause for any free-market optimist. Seventy plus years of state socialism has left Russia with a two-ton gorilla on its collective ... he learned from his Communist political education. Lilia Shevstova is ardently critical of the decisions Yeltsin has made in the post-Soviet era. She lays much of the responsibility for the politics of confrontation squar...

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... significantly scaling back on military spending (433). Prior to the 1970's, there had existed a generalized consensus regarding American foreign policy. The protection of the American ideal of free persons, pluralism and the defense of liberal democracy had been sacred cows, but these principles had, in part, enmeshed the United States in the protracted and politically and economically disastrous war in Vietnam; the result of which had become a systemic skepticism among conflicting ideologues ... and an abiding cynicism among the average voter. In answer, in part, to ... ...

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... could all be spent in much better ways. No longer did the Soviet Union feel the necessity to compete militarily with the United States. Instead, the unity of all peoples for peace was stressed. In October of 1986, Gorbachev spoke of: [the importance in the nuclear age of the] thesis of the priority of the all-human value of peace over all others to which different people are attached.(8) Therefore, ... realized that all of the sacrifices made for the support of the Party were not entirely necessary. Gorbachev's new freedom of the press policy fostered this belief greatly. The Soviet cit...

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... leather shoes for my life and he agreed. A life here is worth no more than a pair of torn leather shoes." Grigori Enov, 23, speaking about conditions at a labour camp near Czechoslovakia. Inmates in the gulags or labour camps were used as free manpower. The conditions in Gulags were worse than terrible. Prisoners were always cold, dirty, and unimaginably hungry. They ... slaved away every day, with neither rest nor medical supervision. A huge proportion of Gulag inmates simply starved to death during their imprisonment. People were ... were purged. Pressure was put on writers to write bo...

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... . Gladkov purposely includes Gleb's naiveté as a contrast to the paralyzing effect of the traumatic revolution in his comrades. In particular, Dasha's horrific experience with torture, rape, and the overwhelming loneliness she has been subjected to, result in a consequential stoical nature that provokes her to seek survival in the upheaval of the revolution. By listening to her story, Gleb is able to comprehend why Dasha has changed so ... radically and to uncover her human emotional side. Gladkov provides a thorough, gruesome account of Dasha's experience with the Cossacks: "With dead ...

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... Sullivan's November telegram, indicating the imminent abdication of the Shah, which prompted various Special Coordination Committee's (SCC's), the dye had been cast. The hostility, distrust, and lack of coordination between different policymaking groups failed to present the president with the most informed, clear, and objective policy choices. The result ws confusion and ambiguity: "The Shah could never get the same story from the White House and the State Department; the one kept assuring him that ... the U.S. was solidly behind him, while the ... ...

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