The constitution sets up a president who is the head of the state with broad executive powers. The president is directly elected for a term of five years and cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. ... The legislative branch is a unicameral body called the National Assembly that is made up of 131 members who serve four-year terms. ... The industries set up by the Soviet Union in Armenia included consumer goods, chemicals and metal refineries, and military goods. In 1993, Armenia set up its own currency called the dram. ...

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When Tsar Nicholas the II abdicated from the throne, Russia was in turmoil, set against the backdrop of wide social disorder and economic corruption and inefficiency. The ineffective and corrupt rule by the Tsars in the 19th Century created this backdrop and served as a stimulus for further discontent. ...

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When Tsar Nicholas the II abdicated from the throne, Russia was in turmoil, set against the backdrop of wide social disorder and economic corruption and inefficiency. The ineffective and corrupt rule by the Tsars in the 19th Century created this backdrop and served as a stimulus for further discontent. ...

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The economic problems of Russia were serve people were starving because they couldn't afford the food or there just wasn't enough, the factory's were only producing enough ammunition to give each soldier that had a weapon three bullets a day, boots and clothing was also scarce for the soldiers. ... The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down and unhygienic living conditions a serve shortage of food and the money to pay for any food that became available. ... The Bolsheviks were also flexible to certain extent, this was shown...

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and...

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The parties undertake, as set forth in the charter of the United Nations, to settle any 1nternational disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice, are not endangered and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of forces in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.. ... The council shall set up subsidiary bodies as may be necessary, in particular, it shall establish immediately a Defense Committee-which shall recommend measures for the implementation of Article 3 an...

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As Mandlebaum states: "For no country more than the Soviet Union did the underlying structure of Asian international politics revolve about a complex interconnected set of triangular relationships. ... Second, the full set of triangles that impeded, shaped and invigorated the policies of Gorbachev's predecessors varied greatly in importance, all of them overshadowed by the crucial Sino-Soviet-US triangle. ...

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This attitude in America served to heighten American concerns over Soviet influence abroad and increased paranoia in the United States. ... As Mikhail Gorbachev entered office, he faced a unique set of political, economic, and militaristic circumstances. ... Gorbachev set out to reform the Soviet Union, yet he chose to reform it from within the system. ... Either they could continue the hard-line, socialist policies set forth by Stalin and embraced by Brezhnev and fall into a pit of worthlessness, or the Soviet Union could try and integrate itself more into the world society moving toward ente...

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World War II was set in motion when Adolph Hitler began a campaign of invasion and assimilation of several countries across Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. ... World War II and the Cold War served as major inspirations for the piece that defined the latter portion of Vaughan Williams' career. ...

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For those with property, however, collectivisation meant giving up to the collective farms and selling most of the food that they produced to the state at low prices set by the state itself, leaving the farmers with a bare minimum. ... Several show trials were held in Moscow to serve as examples for the trials that local courts were expected to carry out elsewhere in the country. ...

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This set aside $400 million of the nation's money to aiding Greece and Turkey, and any other nation that was facing Communist pressures. ... The Red Scare of the 1950's was a dark and regrettable era that will continually mar the landscape of American history, but hopefully serve as a reminder of mistakes gone by....

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In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... In 1928 Stalin set in play the "5 year plan" this plan involved building dams factories and large state owned farms , farmers were taken off their small farms that they owned them selvs...

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I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America's insults and moral pomposity. 5 Move To Europe and Production of A King in New York All of these events would set the stage for Chaplin, now residing permanently in Europe, producing his first film. ... The years that Chaplin had served in producing it had actually ended up resulting in a lessened effect and probably damaged the perception of the film among many as the bitter ramblings of an out of touch old man. 10 Conclusion A...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between th...

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The peasants and the urban workforce were always linked and the growth of politics within this workforce led them to be quickly turned against the government especially the restrictions that the government had set against their protests and retaliations. ... The political culture of these individuals was growing rapidly and so they sent their children into being public servants rather than serve Tsar as their ruler. ...

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That notwithstanding, they nevertheless were working progress towards the development of the refugee protection framework as they served as precursor and provided the need foundation to the 1951 universally acclaimed international refugee protection regime . ...

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Published in the AkhRR Exhibition of Studies, Sketches, Drawings, and Graphics from the Life and Customs of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a cohesive feeling of the avant-garde can be concede when it stated: The Great October Revolution has aroused the conscience of the masses and the artist Our civic duty before mankind is to set down, artistically the revolutionary impulse of this great moment in history. ... The Soviet ideology was thus set in place and implemented through the Russian avant-garde. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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