It ranges from Roger’s upbringing in a Jewish household in Los Angeles to his first trip abroad, in 1964, to the Soviet Union; from his days at Harvard Graduate School studying Russian to his stay in Warsaw, a stay that was truncated by a spy scandal that rocked the United States; from his arrival..…
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Deng Xiaoping once proposed the idea of “hide our strength, keep a low profile, take some action but do not attempt to take the lead,” as the guiding principle for China’s foreign relations. ..…
James Meek wrote about its origins for LRB 2015 three-year shoot that saw huge cast and crew going in crazily detailed, policed reconstruction of Soviet scientific institute on the edge of Kharkiv, the story of the life and work of the physicist and free love Lev Landau. ..…
The fact that Hungarian-American speculator is reduced to using such scare tactic collapse like Soviet Union goes to show that no improvement had been carried out by the out of touch EU elites, despite Brexit and the stunning election of Donald Trump as President of United States... ... In..…
Wearers of spectacles were killed immediately; few intelligentsia able to administer the Soviet Union survived, resulting in chaos, famines, and millions of deaths. Later, Georgian communist Josef Stalin, the party’s general secretary, ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist and further..…
Originally in Russia, Vesenkha was formed as a supreme economic soviet beside the political one, with the plan to meet once a month. ... It consisted of 10 members from the executive of the political Soviet, 20 from regional industry and 30 from the trade unions. ..…
In 1952, United States numbered its atomic in the low hundreds Soviet Union in President Truman considered the proposal to postpone the test. ..…
PEADS, which originated as part of the Eisenhower administration’s plans to ensure continuity of government in the wake of a Soviet nuclear attack, are draft executive orders, proclamations, and messages to Congress that are prepared in advance of anticipated emergencies. ..…
He declared that while at that time Germany’s Fulda Gap was seen as the point of confrontation with a hypothetical Soviet invasion of Western Europe, Poland now occupied a similar position because of “Russian aggression.” . ..…
Historians Niall Ferguson and Victor Davis Hanson will discuss the seminal events of the last century—the two World Wars, the Great Depression, the rise and fall of Soviet communism, and the advent of modernism and globalization—and how Hoover Institution scholars, informed by the lessons of..…
China decided that to get rich is glorious, Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states collapsed into squabbling nationalities and kleptocracies, the socialist autocracies that had depended on Moscow for support receded into irrelevance. ..…
The pictures do not show the hardships that Rybalchenko and 20,000 Soviet women like her went through after they enlisted as civilian support staff during Soviet Union's 1979-1989 invasion of Afghanistan. ... The deaths of Soviet women who held civilian jobs Afghanistan are not..…
Berlinale film on 'fake news' of Soviet-era famine holds lessons for today . . . . ..…
In this photo taken on Feb 15, 1989, people and relatives greet Soviet Army soldiers driving on their armored personnel carriers after crossing bridge on the border between Afghanistan and then Soviet Uzbekistan near Uzbek of Termez, Uzbekistan. ... Soviet Union invaded..…
Video Comrade Trump US president attacks socialism, though his policies resemble Soviet economy. ..…
This was true already during the Cold War, but became even clearer when the Soviet Union “fell”. ..…
In 2005 movement unprecedented post- Soviet Russia halted austerity-driven reforms and forced government rethink opposition focused on the monetisation of social benefits, the proposed reduction of benefits in kind such as transport and health, available to many. ..…
By attempting to evaluate different political options in terms of costs and benefits, the former Soviet regime used coercion to impose predefined choices upon citizens in order to attain its desired ends. ..…
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