Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and digging a hole for a larger shelter as an adult. ...
The Cold War preceded the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. At the same time, the Soviet Union dissolved into Russia. Change began in 1985 when Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power and sought improvement. Examining social, economic and political aspects one can outline the possible chain of events...
In part five of Conflict after the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, edited by Richard K Betts, the overall theme of the articles that were assigned was the correlation between economics and war. The four articles that were assigned test different variables of the economic question a...
The Red Scare was an era in American history full of betrayal, ignorance, and paranoia, the effects of which could be seen from suburban streets to the silver-screen and everything in between. This fearful period was plagued with some of the darkest actions in the history of our nation that eventua...
Yeltsin's Regime and the New Russia When the Russian Federation became an independent state at the end of 1991, many presumed that the Yeltsin regime would be able to establish a "democratic- political system and a "capitalist- economic system in a relatively short period of time. It has proved ...
