The USSR voted itself out of existence in December of 1991, and Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR. ... He made directives that abolished limits on earnings, liberalized foreign economic relations, and commercialized shops and services. In a decree in December of 1991, he abolished price controls on almost all goods and services. ... By the end of March 1992, all remaining price controls besides rents, municipal services and public transportation would be removed (White, 123). ... A new bicameral federal assembly was elected on December 12. ...

• Word Count: 1541
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. ... He found freinds who had the same aspirations as him and by 1898 he was so committed to the Idea that he offered his services to Noe Zhordania who was the leader of Georgia's Marxists at the time. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stalin on his 50th birthday. ...

• Word Count: 2506
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• Grade Level: High School

It was a West German initiative that began in December 1966 and tried to improve relations with Eastern Europe. ... An agreement between East and West Germany - The Basic Treaty - was signed in December 1971. ... Her policies aimed to cut government expenditure, often at the cost of social services and reduce industrial unrest by reducing the power of the unions. ...

• Word Count: 1987
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On December 1st 1934 an event took place, which triggered the Great Purge of the party in the Soviet Union. ... Nikolayev was secretly tried and executed on December 29, 1934. ... Education became far stronger and students had to memorize twenty rules of behavior, which they had to abide by, rule one says, "It is the duty of each school child to acquire knowledge persistently so as to become an educated and cultured citizen and to be of the greatest possible service to his country." ...

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In December 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, announced the Sinatra Doctrine which stated that the Braznev Doctrine would be abandoned and that the Eastern European countries could do what the liked. ... Cold War, Eastern Block & NATO The cold war (September 2, 1945 - December 26, 1991) was the conflict between the USA and its NATO allies - loosely described as the West - and the former Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies - loosely described as the Eastern Block. ... In December 1989, the Sejm approved the government's reform program to transform the P...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Summary of Evidence On December 25th of 1991, the Soviet Union officially fell apart under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, a newly elected President after a fail coup d'etat, after which Gorbachev resigned. ... The book, "A History of Twentieth-Century Russia," was published by Robert Service in 1998 through the Harvard University Press. ... This source is limited in the way that many of Service's perspectives and interpretations are from a Western perspective, therefore presenting a bias in the narrative. ... Robert Service suggests the correlation between the consequences of thi...

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At the 1934 Party Congress Kirov received as much applause as Stalin, and in December that year he was murdered. ... In general, there was a patriotic uplift as people volunteered for work and service. ...

• Word Count: 1393
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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . ... In December 1905 Stalin and Lenin met for the first time, at a Bolshevik conference in Finland. ...

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Nicholas II's corrupt system included organisations and groups such as, the secret police service, the Okhrana and Cossack soldiers. ... On the night of 29 December 1916, Prince Feliks Yusupov, husband of the tsar's niece, Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich, a member of the Duma, and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, the tsar's cousin, murdered Rasputin. ...

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In December 1939 Poland requested assistance from Britain to enhance their air courier capabilities with decent aircraft, but the Allies ultimately determined a ground route was more suitable. ... The most successful courier circuit to be established in Poland was done by Krystyna Skarbek, a young woman from the upper class in Warsaw who traveled to London upon the breakout of the war to volunteer her service as a special operations agent. ...

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World War II ranged from 1939 through 1945 and it involved every major world power. On one side were the Allies, including Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union. On the other side the Axis powers included Germany, Japan and Italy. This conflict resulted from the rise of to...

• Word Count: 1983
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• Grade Level: High School

In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. ... On 7 December 1941, the Japanese shockingly destroyed a large part of the American Pacific Navy. ...

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Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...

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Introduction When I first sat down and researched into American exceptionalism I discovered an idea that was complex in not just its definition but also its understanding. I quickly learned I was researching something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for exceptionalism. Asked by a reporter in Strasbourg, France, whether he subscribed, as his...

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