philosophy and politics in an age of war and revolution
Twenty-five years after the failure of the Soviet Union, American democracy is in a state of terminal crisis. . ..…
Twenty-five years after the failure of the Soviet Union, American democracy is in a state of terminal crisis. . ..…
Reagan made sure the mujahideen received funding from the CIA, and American leaders thought men like Abu Zubaydah were heroes of the anti-Soviet resistance. . ..…
Due to the attacks of the Eisenhower administration, which forbade him from leaving the island of Manhattan, the Cuban leader was welcomed at Harlem’s Hotel Theresa, where he held meetings with Malcom X, and with the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev,..…
‘Americans to the Rescue’—A Russian Assignment . With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the U.S. electioneering industry began to operate in a more globalized environment, sustained by state funding and encouragement to establish in the name of “freedom” new..…
Compared with Russian or American businesses, Chinese companies are generally less well-regarded in the region. But in most former Soviet republics surveyed, including Russia, more people give Chinese companies a good rating than a bad rating. ..…
The general, who always looked ahead, was determined to prevent the German occupation from being replaced by either an American or a Soviet protectorate. ..…
ONE OF THE greatest mistakes in the history of American intelligence was the failure to predict the collapse of Soviet Union. ..…
The Committee agitated against Carter’s arms control efforts and hyped its alarmist interpretation of Soviet designs. ... During ABLE ARCHER 83, in contrast, an American renewal of high Cold War rhetoric, aggressive and perilous threat displays… were combined with Soviet..…
“The objective, quite simply, was to heap as much abuse on the Soviet Union as possible.” . In a boastful but frank assessment of the successful disinformation campaign, Snyder noted that “the American media swallowed the U.S. government line without reservation. ..…
Russia has 12.3 million residents who are classified by the United Nations as immigrants, but the vast majority were born in countries that had been a part of the Soviet Union prior to its breakup in 1991. ↩ . Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of 2010 American Community Survey (1% IPUMS)...…
By the in the country fueled by drug trafficking, Afghanistan had been left in state of near chaos, army and economy totally dependent on Soviet aid, and advisers facing increasing interference by Afghanistan's neighbors, and by Mujahideen havens Pakistan.. Unlike Americans, United..…
For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries such as Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that May Day has its origins here in this country, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration..…
However, while Russia hosts 12 million immigrants, many are natives of countries that were part of the former Soviet Union. ↩ . . . ... Mexican-American Fertility Patterns Next Page → ← Prev Page . . . . ..…
Influential Americans are much more confident about this country's place in the world now compared to four years ago when they were anxious about the in the wake of the collapse of Soviet Union. Twice as many Americans leadership positions believe United States plays in the today than..…
He had, and took, opportunity to help frame American approach to Soviet Union, approach that many of his peers scorned and that was vindicated.. ..…
., China, and Soviet Union — as guarantor of world peace.. By the community has left the station, While American political class is stuck on the collusion between Donald Trump and Kremlin, the global shift eastward. ..…
In the 1960s, France under Charles de Gaulle pulled out of NATO and Germany's Willy Brandt pursued Ostpolitik of rapprochement with East Germany and Soviet Union that defied American wishes.. Americans were selfish Europeans recognized that they were acting on complex and..…
But he achieved much wider renown as a public intellectual deeply skeptical about the American policy of détente with the Soviet Union. . ... Perhaps his most public role in challenging American policies toward the Soviet Union came in 1976 under President Gerald R. ..…
we may be at the end of American policy. accompanied by containment of Soviet Union with ever more arms outlay. ..…
In my references to the blighted state of post-Soviet society, I did not mean to suggest that Americans and Europeans are enjoying a flowering of intellectual creativity. ..…
Francis against American intervention on behalf of the White forces mobilizing behind Kaledin. The Soviet government has discovered that H.W. Anderson, head of the US Red Cross mission to Romania, has organized the delivery of 72 automobiles to Kaledin’s counterrevolutionary forces in..…