The shelves in the stores were practically bare, and what was there was not in very good quality. ... There were many escape tunnels dug under the wall. ... There were 302 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. ... There was no way to see relatives or anything on the west side of the wall. ... Then just two days later thousands took the streets shouting "no more violence!" ...
People would no longer have the comfort of knowing someone else was in control. ... There is no vice president, and the president nominates the highest state officials. ... Then there is the decision of who has the dominant position of state and quasi-state ownership. ... Even the well-educated people were underemployed, which means that they were qualified for a much better job than the one they had. ... ooks like there is little hope. ...
There is no private ownership. ... No private enterprise was allowed. ... It cannot be denied that there was a significant minority who supported communism, but these were a minority. ... This essay would argue that the answer to this question is no. ... Until Khrushchev became leader of the Soviet bloc, there had been no significant contact between the two blocs. ...
There is no private ownership. ... No private enterprise was allowed. ... It cannot be denied that there was a significant minority who supported communism, but these were a minority. ... This essay would argue that the answer to this question is no. ... Until Khrushchev became leader of the Soviet bloc, there had been no significant contact between the two blocs. ...
There is no private ownership. ... No private enterprise was allowed. ... It cannot be denied that there was a significant minority who supported communism, but these were a minority. ... This essay would argue that the answer to this question is no. ... Until Khrushchev became leader of the Soviet bloc, there had been no significant contact between the two blocs. ...
This was very significant because throughout all of World War I there were no major battles fought on the German homeland. ... There were delegates from twenty-seven different countries there, but the Germans and the Russians were not represented. ... Even as the war continued to rage on, there were wartime conferences. ... They were under the control of one dictator and then went under the control of another. ... There was talk that they were going to be occupied for up to twenty years or even longer. ...
There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. ... He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... For in his mind, there was no question of his primacy: he was to be first, period; there was ...
However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it is a vague term, there is no actual start date to the war. ... However it is difficult to see this as an actual cause of the Cold War, as the world was very different then, than it is in the twentieth century and it didn't involved the U.S. ... At the end of the war, the U.S.A and U.S.S.R were clearly masters of the world. They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ...
Currently there are no international laws banning nuclear weapons, but there are restrictions on testing these weapons. ... They may have bad relations with some of the member states at the convention, this raises a problem, there is no possible way to make states comply with terms that in fact other countries have set down, it seems that for arms control to create stability each country has to take the guidelines and restrictions that arms control carries it cannot be forced or compromised. ... There are however, several disadvantages of adhering to the CTBT. ... There are definite fears thro...
He had a reputation for being distant toward his fellow students and had been in trouble with the school authorities a few times, but there were no other signs of the direction his career was to take. ... Stalin then set his site on entering the world of politics. ... After many arrests within the ranks of the Georgian Bolsheviks Stalin rose to be there new leader. ... They then began to rebuild the war-torn country. At first, Lenin and the others were unaware of Stalin's quiet plotting. ...
There were huge achievements in the building of new cities, built wholly around industry, bringing new life to previously derelict areas. ... Production doubled in electricity, coal and steel industries and there was virtually no unemployment. ... No, comrades, it is not possible! ... So then how did Stalin justify conditions in the labour camps? ... They were no longer citizens, but enemies. ...
The first action would be to altogether avoid nuclear war, and it would be to take no action. ... Also in the speech were seven objectives of the United States. ... Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation, yes or no?" ... As Stevenson replied "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now and you can answer yes or no. ...
The annual mean temperature is 25 ∘C, ranging during the year from 23 to 27 ∘C, and the average relative humidity is 80% There are 11,142,600 inhabitants of Cuba, with a density of a little more than 100 inhabitants/km. ... In order to assess the environmental progress experienced by Cuba, we must first look at its environmental history, then at its environmental state at present, after which we will extrapolate the reasons for this literal turn around. ... Many of the problems that arose from this industrialization effort were especially visible in the agricultural sector...
Between 1921 and 1949, there have been numerous agreements and treaties which attempted and experimentation with solving the refugee crises of these decades. ... Europe was for instance bedeviled in 16th and 17th centuries by religious persecution and so most refugees then were people fleeing persecution for religious reasons. During this period, other countries received these refugees especially where there were religious affinity, ideological belief systems and sometimes for economic reasons. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of R...
Russia was among the major empires that existed back then in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with its reach in Poland and a population of over 165 million. Despite this fact, the Russian empire was the home of mainly peasants who were farmers even though it is believed that the lives of the Russians was improved in the year 1861 from which they were serfs, implying that they were owned and traded like goods by their owners. Poverty that the Russians experienced then was a long-term cause of the Russian revolution with the families within the empire existing at the mere level of subsiste...
This was the first time that weapons of mass destruction were ever used. Many people were horrified by the prospects of there existing weapons that could inflict so much destruction. These actions changed the face of world relations not only then but forever. ... After WWII, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union were heated. ... The U.S. felt that if the Soviets achieved that, then they would try and do the same to Western Europe. ...
Since then the situation in Ukraine has intensified leading to two questions: Why did the current situation in Ukraine occur? ... Then based on this information what the resolution will be through the point of view that best correlates with the situation. ... Petro Poroshenko was then elected president in May8. ... This invasion was a strategic move to target Eastern Ukraine where a majority of its citizens were Russian speakers. ... Since our international system is labeled anarchic, meaning that there is no high actor who has power over the world states, a neoliberalism principal surrounding...
There was no turning back. At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. Economies were reduced to rubble, as was most of Europe. ... There were strings attached, which was no surprise. ... West Germany prospered while the Eastern Germans were left behind. ...
This meant that he had influence other the minorities, of which there were many throughout Russia. ... Amongst many other factors, those which primarily contributed to the power struggle were: the ban on factionalism; the fashion in which the party was centralised; the growth in party membership; and the fact that there was no one clear leader. ... This ban dictated that there were "to be no groups within the party that tried to put forward new ideas, which disagreed with the official policy and the Party leadership-. ... This ensured there were only the 7 Politburo members who were allowed ...
There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... To conclude, the most important reason for industrialisation in the USSR was to ensure the survival of communism in its then form. ... Stalin had many reasons to undertake the five-year plans, and his glorification was such a reason, but there were far more important reasons for Stalin to introduce the five-year...
American foreign policy decision makers were at the time operating under the understanding that the Soviet Union was gaining power. ... However, Brezhnev died in November 1982, and no longer had to deal with the situation any longer. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the world is becoming increasingly interdependent; there can be no victors in a nuclear war; security has to based on increasingly on political rather than military instruments; and security mu...
There is no region in the World which accumulates such number of nations within such little geographical territory. ... Statistically there are number of nationalities and minority groups living there. ... The Azeris are Muslim, the overwhelming majority of which is Shiite, although there are few Sunnis in the North. ... Later, while Xenophon conquered and ruled this region, armenians were known as a separate ethnic and political group and were share Archaeminid Empire. ... At that time there was lack of te...
There was mutual suspicion concerning ideology. ... The entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan were also outlined On the surface, everything seemed friendly, but there was tension behind the scenes. There were different views on how to enforce a peace in postwar Germany. ... This new government should then be called the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity- (15). These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for how any voice from the Polish people regarding their political future would be hear...
There are many events that have shaped the history of our country. ... There were many political, social, cultural, and economic events taking place during that month. While none of these events are earth shattering they still shaped the history for that time and I am sure that there are many individuals that were impacted by these events. ... Dioxin had been proven to kill lab animals but no studies had been conducted of humans. ... The Veterans Agency, however, did maintain that there was no conclusive evidence to prove that Agent Orange was linked with certain diseases. ...
Both his parents were peasants. ... There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. ... There he resumed the editorship of Pravda. ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new Bolshevik government. ... Ultimately, though, Stalin's defense of the region proved unsuccessful, the Red Army units in the area lost 60.000 men while he was there, and the Whites were later able to capture the city and hold it for an extended period. ...
