the dismemberment of yugoslavia 20 years on

With the collapse of Soviet Union in the early 90s IMF and World Bank no longer felt they had to placate Yugoslavia. ... The year, 1985, and the relaxation of tensions with Soviet Union after Gorbachev became leader meant that western nations were no longer willing to be generous with..

a 21st-century schism

One of Eastern Orthodox churches, Russian branch has over 150 million followers across Soviet Union, including Ukraine, where nearly 80 cent of adults identify as Orthodox. ... In the early years of Soviet Union, Orthodox Church was considered vestige of bourgeois oppression and was..

looking again at ‘revolution'

The type of rehabilitation that revolution now enjoys reminds me of the celebration of new democracy in the last decade of the century, following the collapse of Communist Party-led governments Eastern Europe and the disintegration of Soviet Union.. ..

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