After 1 April 1989, all enterprises were allowed to trade with foreign partners. ... A deal was negotiated where the Germans would be given the right to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if they reduced the size of their military and if they expanded their trade with the Soviet Union. ... In 1991, as the Soviet economy deteriorated, Gorbachev faced competing pressures from hard-line Communists, from free-market reformers, and from nationalists and secessionists seeking independence for their republics. ... The U.S. long-term policy of withholding Soviet expansion while encouraging d...

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Big and medium cities in China are very cramped and cannot provide a free space territory for everyone. ... Despite contradictions with US on issues of democracy and human rights, the US trade deficit, increasing of the military budgets China is still likely to adopt and develop relations with the United States which based on common strategic interests of both countries. ... It means bilateral trade relations, coordination in global energy import. ...

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It was considered to be important, since both nations knew that with a wealthy Europe, there would be a considerable trading partner missing. ... The symbolic impact of a withdrawal of American troops from Berlin would mean a victory for the Soviets and could impress the population in a way that would threaten every free country in Europe.8 So not only was Germany an economically important factor, but also was the fight over the country a struggle of two systems, capitalism and communism. ... Truman emphasized that the USA was the only country that was able to restore freedom and a free-market...

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Moreover, the lack of experience in running businesses under free market conditions meant that even if privatisation had been successful and efficient, the long term running would be extremely problematic. ... The low importance for the central government along with poor natural AN447 Assignment 3 Larry Ren 200902446 4 endowments enabled the Wenzhounese to develop a business oriented mind-set, engaging them in long distance trade, which supported the local economy. ... This enabled the Wenzhounese to utilise their skills in business and trade to promote local economic development which would n...

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The dividing line between the Free World and Communism was Germany, which was divided into East Germany controlled by the Soviets, and West Germany, which was part of the Free World. ... Meanwhile, America and its allies formed the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO), and promised collective defense of any country within NATO. ... After Reagan took office and implemented his military rebuild, the fight between Communism and the Free World appeared balanced. ... After the destruction of the wall, many of the countries under Communist control broke away, making most of Europe part of t...

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The attempt to replace the centralized, collectivized economic system with a free market economy was (and continues to be) fraught with difficulties. ... Compounding the inherent difficulties of transforming a controlled collective economy into a free market economy were three major shocks. ... Secondly the collapse of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) which had until then provided 93 per cent of Mongolia's trade meant that the country suddenly lost its export market and suffered a sharp deterioration in its external terms of trade. ...

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Batista was elected president of Cuba in November 1954 and in May 1955 an amnesty bill for political prisoners was ratified and Fidel and all other political prisoners were freed. ... The Eisenhower administration's refusal to buy Cuban sugar just pushed Fidel Castro closer and closer to the Soviet Union and by September 1960 he and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev became buddies and decided to enter into a trade agreement for the Soviet Union to buy the Cuban sugar that the U.S. did not want to buy. ... After the Cuban Missile Crisis was over, Castro declined to use Russia's form...

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In response to a letter in a newspaper by writer Maxim Gorky criticizing the Bolshevik actions, Lenin wrote: "As the State is only a transitional institution which we are obliged to use in the revolutionary struggle in order to crush our opponents forcibly, it is pure absurdity to speak of a Free People's State. ... This particular institution was characterized by its increasing of central control of the economy, the nationalization of banks, factories and the abolition of private trade. ... To retreat from the brutality of War Communism Lenin set up the New Economic Policy (NEP), whic...

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The Bolsheviks also introduced the banning of private trade. ... As trade and industry grew this phase would be succeeded by capitalism. ... War communism led to a terrible famine throughout Russia, but Lenin started that he would rather the whole nation die oh hunger than allow free trade of grain. ...

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Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... There was no reference to the reunification of East and West Germany in this agreement but it did provide for improved communication between the two Germany's in terms of trade, culture and personal contacts. ... Gorbachev tried to introduce gradual reform away from the old central planning and towards the free market, as demanded by soviet reformers and western leaders. ...

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The Soviet-Union put up barriers blocking trade and tension grew on both sides. ... In 1969, the Free Democratic Party won a razor thin victory in parliamentary elections, and Willy Brandt became chancellor. ...

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Instead of seeking to rebound from the Great Depression using economic nationalism, like most other global powers did, Hitler set goals of autarky and self "sufficiency," which included complete independence from international trade. ... Also, Germany proposed a network of bilateral trade agreements that was designed to somewhat unite a politically divided Europe. ... It was a true totalitarian regime because of the lack of labor union and lack of free speech or press. ...

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Several political parties have struggled for power since the first free elections since the Soviet era in 1995. ... The Soviet Union left Armenia dependent upon trade with countries like Azerbaijan to survive, but the two nations have had poor relations since independence. ...

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Ironically, however, now armed with a free press, Robespierre and others soon used it as a tool for successful propaganda. ... Most workers, according to him, were capable only of "trade union consciousness" and were therefore sensible only to short term interests. ...

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A Plan of the Investigation How did Stalin rise to power through his struggles with Zinoviev, Kamenov, and Trotsky? After Lenin was no longer a candidate for power, Stalin was capable of stepping up and taking control. At the beginning, his only real threat came from Trotsky. Soon, however...

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He was hoping that this would spark more people to do their job in society efficiently so the entertainment afterwards would be stress free. ... In 1921 Russia passed the New Economic Policy (NEP) which allowed economic competition so the Russians would start to produce and trade goods. ...

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Although the peasants had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Tsar Alexander II, they still had restrictions on how they lived. ... During this time small factories nationalised, workers became under government control, private trading was banned and food was strictly rationed. ...

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