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| | History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | On March 17, 1991, in an all-Union referendum 78% of all voters voted for the retention of the Soviet Union in a reformed form. | | | In December 1988, the Supreme Soviet approved the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies, which constitutional amendments had established as the Soviet Union's new legislative body. | | | On March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared the restitution of independence and announced that it was pulling out of the Soviet Union. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Soviet_Union
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A centralised totalitarian state was established, no longer based on the rule of law. | | | Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states ( Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation. | | | Following Napoleon's fall, the Congress of Vienna convened in 1814 in order to restructure Europe. |
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| | The Fall of the Soviet Union from Walter Laqueur |
| | One of the major weaknesses of the Soviet system, more decisive perhaps in the long run than economic failure, was the dismal state of the quality of life. | | | In most contemporary revolutionary movements, the young generation and the working class have played a significant role, but this was not the case in Russia. | | | From time to time, an unfortunate victim (such as a deputy minister) would be selected as a scapegoat and sentenced to the "highest measure of punishment. |
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http://faculty.goucher.edu/history231/Laqueur.htm
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| | BIGpedia - Post-Soviet states - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | The Rose Revolution in Georgia, leading to the fall from office of Eduard Shevardnadze. | | | In 1994, inflation reached 400% in Ukraine, and 1258% in Kazakhstan, but was comparitively lower in the Baltic states (reaching only 45.1% in Lithuania.) 1995 was the absolute nadir of the economic plague in the Former Soviet Republics. | | | The Baltic states were historically independent (or ruled by Germany, Sweden or Poland) for significant periods in their history. |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Post-Soviet_states
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| | Reviews in History: |
| | The impact of this position both on the USSR itself, and on foreign states, was immense and long lasting. | | | In political terms, Khrushchev could not go too far in denouncing the appalling excesses of Stalinism; his speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 (pp. | | | The Soviet Union attempted to give the impression that it was a monolithic structure in which political differences had disappeared, and that a state and society had been created which were entirely cohesive. |
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| | The Fall Of The Soviet Union: Whys And Wherefores |
| | Until 1991 no totalitarian state had collapsed of its own volition without being defeated militarily. | | | This lapse in judgment amounted to an exercise in deceptive labeling. | | | This "Sovietism" (his word) remained essentially intact from October 1917 right up to the 1991 collapse. |
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http://www.raleightavern.org/lovell.htm
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| | The Fall Of The Soviet Union: Whys And Wherefores |
| | This is seen in the General Secretary's decision to allow TV coverage of the first Congress of People's Deputies where a handful of critics were granted the opportunity to take a crack at the excesses of the party and the KGB. | | | But, according to Mandelbaum, once Borcyachev authorized "democratization" or free and fair elections in order to undermine his party opponents, the newly empowered electorate voted to reject party and Gorbyachev alike. | | | Hitherto the mass of Soviet people, in order to cope with the police state and its duplicitous house of mirrors, had withdrawn into themselves, leaving the public arena to the party and government apparatchiks. |
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| | RUSSIA |
| | Leonid Brezhnev was the first Secretary who also wanted to the President of the Supreme Soviet, i.e. | | | Now the honor passes to his daughter Maria, who ironically married a great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. | | | Head of State and President of the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.friesian.com/russia.htm
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| | WorldNetDaily: Fall of the Soviet Union no accident |
| | Let's start with a quick look at what it was like in the early 1980s, illustrated by a recent conversation I had with Dinesh D'Souza, a senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. | | | Ralph Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon Professor of Free Enterprise at Robert Morris College and the co-author of "Mom & Pop vs. the Dreambusters." | | | All things considered, not bad for an old guy who was accused of grabbing a nap during cabinet meetings. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22033
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| | W4361:Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | Putin often speaks proudly of the Soviet KGB, the notorious state security agency for which he worked in the 1970s and 1980s, and he has appointed a large number of former KGB officials to senior posts in his government. | | | Part of the problem is the continued presence of officials who served in high-level posts in the Communist Party, the government, and the security forces during the Soviet period. | | | Putin also approved the setting up of a bust of Stalin at the Poklonnaya Gora war memorial. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~kmp30/COURSE/W4361/reading.html
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| | Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | Boris Yeltsin captured a seat in the new Congress. | | | However, Andropov groomed young Mikhail Gorbachev as his eventual successor and on March 11, 1985 became General Secretary and ruler of the USSR. | | | But the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev to the supreme leadership of the Soviet Union in 1985 began a tumultuous period that culminated with the fall of the realm founded by Lenin and Stalin. |
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| | Fall Of The Soviet Union - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | English prime minister Margaret Thatcher did, too, remarking, "if you are going to pronounce a new law that whenever... | | | Broken Empire : After the Fall of the USSR | | | Phoenix: The War that Never Was: The Fall of the Soviet Empire 1985 - 1991 |
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| | The fall of the Soviet Union as seen by liberals, Reagan, and the neocons |
| | Imagine if a liberal, or a Nixon or a Ford, had been president in the '80s. | | | Rather, it was Gorbachev's incompetence, more than his benevolence, that produced "reforms" that completely wrecked the system in a short time. | | | And then to think that Reagan lived to see the fall of the Soviet empire, and then the fall of the Soviet Union itself, so that in 1992 at the Republican national convention he was able to say: "I have seen the birth of Communism, and I have seen the death of Communism." |
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http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/002342.html
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| | Local Libraries |
| | Lanny Lee; Ted Newsom; Bob Duncan; Julie Bogash; Library Distributors of America. | | | The Rise & fall of the Soviet Union | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | Russia 16 |
| | Soviet Union And Untied States Home Soviet Union And Untied States Information Foreign Relation of the Untied States Russia 1919 Dept. Of State..... | | | Soviet Union Called A Counterintelligence State Home Soviet Union Called A Counterintelligence State Information Timeline Russia 1945-1987...minist.. | | | Soviet Union 1936 Constitution Analysis Home Soviet Union 1936 Constitution Analysis Information EVENTS 1936...inconsistent with the constitutio.. |
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| | Fond 89 and the Fall of the Soviet Union by Gordan Hahn |
| | Ligachev attacked Gorbachev's establishment of the Soviet presidency, a mechanism Gorbachev created to circumvent the hard-line party apparat. | | | The documents include records from the secret police (NKVD), the party Politburo and Secretariat, state and party control committees, and various state ministries. | | | Fond 89 and the Fall of the Soviet Union by Gordan Hahn |
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http://www.hooverdigest.org/981/hahn.html
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| | Town Hall: Chat with Brian Crozier |
| | This was a humiliating defeat of the Soviet Union. | | | The Soviet Union was in a pretty pitiful state during the whole period of Gorbachev's rule. | | | They were allowed to return after the war, but since then they had a feeling of resentment against Soviet authority, so there have now been 2 wars in Chechnya, the current one and one that ended 3 years ago. |
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http://www.townhall.com/CHAT/ARCHIVE/991215crozier.html
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| | Frances Fitzgerald on SDI and the Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | Frances Fitzgerald on SDI and the Fall of the Soviet Union | | | But it was Gorbachev who changed the Soviet Union, and Reagan's 'embrace' of him as an individual was surely the most important contribution the United States made to the Soviet revolution..." | | | The Star Wars initiative had put the Soviets on notice that the next arms race would be waged in areas where the U.S. had a decisive technological advantage. |
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http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Politics/fitzgerald.html
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| | Russia, Hudson Institute, Film on Fall of Soviet Union |
| | The tank's film will be based on the 1996 book "Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union," written by David Satter, a Hudson senior fellow and former foreign correspondent. | | | Russia, Hudson Institute, Film on Fall of Soviet Union | | | The tank also hopes "to put our film in high schools and colleges as an alternative view of what communism is all about," Rubenstein said. |
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http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5568-13.cfm
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| | The Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | We may also agree that this does not apply to the Soviet Unioni in the political sphere, where there is a single-party system and certain restrictions on civil liberty. | | | 62: "From the standpoint of economic science, the political leadership in the Soviet Union is acting as the agent of the working class. | | | Weber did not note the corruption (and the related economic disruption and waste) that would come to dominate "socialist" economies, and Weber had no inkling of the periodic waves of mass terror required to preserve Communist Party power in the face of the enormous gap between the party's official ideology and its actual practice. |
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | The collapse of the Soviet Union and its replacement by the Commonwealth of Independent States has renewed interest in Russian and Soviet history. | | | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union | | | ABRAHAM J. EDELHEIT, who recently received his Ph.D. in History from CUNY, and HERSHEL EDELHEIT are researchers and writers on the Holocaust and related topics. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Age of Delirium : The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | I suspect that the "experts" who carp about his work are simply jealous that they never produced anything that even comes close to his level of writing. | | | This is an amazing book- truly an in depth study of the personal stories that made up the huge events surrounding the fall of the Soviet Union. | | | This book attempts to chronicle the last ten or so years of the Soviet Union through vignettes that illustrate people's struggles with a dying system. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394529340?v=glance
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| | History 347: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union |
| | History 347: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union | | | Origins of the Cold War (Knight reserve), pp. | | | Description : This is an introductory lecture survey course on the history of the Soviet Union. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hessler/Hist347.htm
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| | Fall of the Soviet Union Symbolized Death of an Idea |
| | The wheels of history turned on a sweltering June day in 1979 before thousands of people standing in a field in Poland to hear Pope John Paul II say Mass in his communist homeland. | | | Fall of the Soviet Union Symbolized Death of an Idea | | | You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox. |
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| | Moviefone: Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union Movie |
| | Richard Sakwa, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991;... | | | Amazon.com: Books: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: 1917... | | | Amazon.com: Books: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (Sources... |
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| | Science and Religion |
| | We'll read -- slowly, intensively, and repeatedly -- two or at most three Shakespeare scripts being produced this fall by area theaters. | | | Our many points of entry into the script will include close verbal analysis, historical consideration of Shakespeare's day and of theatrical developments since, class enactment of speeches and scenes, video and audio clips from noteworthy productions. |
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http://www.virginia.edu/provost/usems.htm
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