The one is a neutral aspect, that is, the fact that owing to application of results of scientific-technological development to the field of transportation and communication, it becomes increasingly easy for us to travel, transport goods, transmit information and transfer even money across borders, and consequently the globe became relatively small. ... 'Euroregions' are interesting examples of 'cooperative relationship of municipalities across borders'. ... When I visited Slovenia in April 1991, that is, immediately before the Federation's breakup, I was skeptical abou...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party decisions. ... When Lenin arrived back in Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland, on April 3, 1917, he strongly criticized Stalin for printing both of these opinions and demanded an immediate reversal in policy. Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. ...

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