These historians, also known as "Wisconsin-School Revisionists, purported that the ideology of Cold War revisionism "combined the writings of William Appleman Williams and his followers on the 'Open Door Empire', Gar Alperovitz's work on atomic diplomacy and Gabriel Kolko's survey of the capitalist system and U.S foreign relations. ... Even though the revisionists claim that post-revisionism is simply another form of Orthodoxy with archives,18 their findings have paved the way for a less heated debated due in large part to more information being available to draw from. A...

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He also established a system of political censorship to preserve the nature of the communistic ideas in Soviet society. Gulag system was a series of prison camps for people that have allegedly committed political crimes or demonstrated signs of unacceptable views. ... He helped to raise awareness of the Gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camps system. ... Prisoners are sent to camps for no reason without receiving any information about the state of their loved ones. ...

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The state ruled by terror, arresting people on suspicion of not conforming to the states belief system. ... While members of the old elite system suffered great losses of their wealth to be redistributed, the state elite was content to benefit from the new system. ... The 1930s were a time of great change for the people of Russia, and they are Taylor 4 truly survivors of a system that did everything but take care of its people (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 227). ... The book was organized topically, starting with a wonderful introduction that helped set out all her points, foll...

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Beginning in 1960, and continuing till 1961, US intelligence was compiling information that Soviet ships carrying unidentified contents were traveling between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Backing what US intelligence assumed, later information proved that Cuba was amidst a secret arms buildup. ... The International system, at the current point and time has no means of organizing and formulating an agreeable plan to the US and Soviets. ...

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Not only did they hold many more nuclear warheads, their weapons delivery systems were much more developed compared to the Chinese. ... Mao Zedong deemed this information as being credible and believed that an attack was imminent, so he agreed to peace negotiations with Moscow. ... The evidence for Reisel's assertion was based upon information obtained from intelligence agencies in other Asian countries regarding joint Chinese-Soviet military exercises in the Chinese province of Sinkiang. ...

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This is the most effective metaphor that neo-realism provides to explain its own essence: states are like billiard balls, not only because they constantly clash, but more because - assumed to be solid - the domestic configuration gives no information about their behaviour in the inter-state system (J. ... In other words, "the fundamental unit in the system is the sovereign state. ... For Waltz, the system is self-constituting and self-reproducing, and therefore destined not to end. ... International forces have helped create different main types of states in the international system- (Søre...

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In Hungary, the Communist government initiated reforms in 1989 that led to the sanctioning of a multiparty system and competitive elections. ... The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy, and the United States' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. ... I have identified the problems which eventually overcame the credibility of Communist rhetoric as having their base in the inab...

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First of all, when it comes to the economy, Gorbachev did not make the plan to remake the Soviet system he merely wanted to modernize it. Gorbachev's minor adjustments to the current system unintentionally kept dragging the economy down. ... Although these were all large steps, Gorbachev still did not understand that to reform any economy, you must end the system of the government setting prices. ... His decrease of censorship was a huge step in Russia's history but the problem was that he did not make Glasnost, "an inalienable right of citizens to enjoy the freedom of informati...

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Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. It was condemned because the leaders misused it. It was lack of support from other nations, and there was no efficient solution to save the economy from its downfall. However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europ...

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Many people who lost trust and belief in the Communist system defected to the United States and other countries. ... Using a historical fact, Clancy shows how cruel the Communist system is with no respect for the humans but only for political power. ... He somehow managed to bypass sophisticated air defence systems and causing several bureaucrats to be fired by the Soviet Politburo (p. 24, "Destination Red Square"). ...

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CUBA DURING 1960-1989: After assuming power, the government of Fidel Castro implemented measures to transform the Cuban economy through radical changes and adjustments directed towards the formation of a different economic system. ... These include expanding and diversifying exports, increasing investment levels, terminating the monetary and institutional dualism, creating an appropriate environment for self-employment and small and medium scale enterprise, and addressing other institutional and policy problems and information control. ... Cuba is a member of the WTO, and the Assoc...

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Because of the socialistic one-chamber-system the embargo of the USA against Cuba got worse. ... This should prevent the nuclear powers from misunderstandings and eleminate the danger of false informations which could loose the nuclear war. ...

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Tito Transforms Yugoslavia Josip Broz (Tito) was a dynamic leader with an incredible ability to unite. Analyzing historical evidence makes it possible to understand the impact Josip Broz had on Yugoslavia. This investigation will first explore the life of Tito, and then discover how his action...

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