... Russian Tsardom were under unstable governmental power, peasant revolts, the challenges of foreign pretenders to seize the throne, conflicts with Sweden and Poland, internecine battles between boyar's families. All thus events caused major social and economic disruptions and threatened to destroy the state itself. In 1613, Zemsky Sobor or the Assembly of the Land, that included chosen presenters from all classes of population, such as boyar ... families, provincial nobility and village peasantry, met for election a new Tsar. The choice was youthful Michael Theodorovich Romanov. The Roma...

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... "justified this misrepresentation in his opening remarks only thusly: "When we use the term "Russian organized crime" in the course of this hearing, we are referring to organized crime from all republics of the former Soviet Union, not only from the Republic of Russia. We realize the limitations of this definition but have chosen to use this phrase because of its widespread recognition and acceptance ... ."" The CRA (Congress of Russian Americans) is an organization that tries to improve the life of Russians in the US. When the bad reputation of Russians, which had ... been manifested b...

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... had taken over due to their isolation from one another and that there were so many of them. Japan, in actuality, was chosen as the target in 1943. There was a fear that if the bomb did not work on Germany that the Germans would be able to disassemble it and figure out how to make it work. There was not this fear with Japan ... for defeating Japan and that we were hoping to deter Russia from invading other lands in an effort to suppress Communism. He feels that the dropping of the bomb was 'the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia. Also an American historian, Gar ...

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... he knew we would immediately think he had ordered the plane shot down, and horror by the Kennedy administration that they would have to figure out what to do about it. The quarantine had been effective but the shooting down of a U.S. plane was clearly a sign of escalation. Earlier in the week the EXCOMM had chosen a contingency plan in the event that a U-2 was shot down; bomber and ... fighter planes would destroy a surface-to-air missile site [p.36]. Together with reports that the Russians were furiously working to complete the launch sites, it seemed ... like things would get worse. K...

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... so easily stood to back Austrian retaliations against Serbia. Considering the Kaiser's desire to rule a kingdom as large as the whole of Great Britain, he may have igno! red such a threat and still pushed the issue further. However, I would venture a guess that a tactician such as Wilhelm would have seen the flaws in such a plan and chosen to remain neutral or otherwise non-combative. It is ... my contention that when the super power of 1914 Great Britain was ... presented with an opportunity to resolve the Austro-Hungarian/Serb conflict before it escalated into all out war, Sir Grey d...

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... was averted. In conclusion, a the major reason that a military conflict was averted was the cooperation between Kennedy and Khrushchev and their commitment to peace. Neither was willing to wage war, specially not Russia since their missile bases in Cuba were unfinished. Many things could have changed the course of the crisis to the point of disaster: if Kennedy had chosen to use air strikes, if ... Russia had crossed the quarantine line, if Kchruschev didn ... 't agree to peace, if the missile bases had been finished. Luckily these things weren't, and the world was saved from a potential...

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