The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. American's regretted their isolation in the years between the wars. ... America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." ... The Truman Doctrine was the beginning of American policy for the Cold War. ...
He went to France, anticipating a socialist revolution, but was deported from there as well. ... Revolutions are common throughout history, and sometimes it happens within a countries own borders. ... America was literally split in half because of the disagreements that the North and the South had. ... Tom quickly begins to realize the corruption and the mistreatment that was going on in Hooverville and in California. ...
Introduction The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. Russia faces the seemingly impracticable task of economic liberalization and democratization. This is combined with a necessity to answer nationalist and ethnic questions ...
