1. Prosecuting and Defending Joseph Stalin
Nation-states, city-states, empires and Kingdoms have interacted with each other in a similar way since the end of the thirty years war. An example could be China, Africa, India, and Ancient Greece; they got involved in economic relations, established embassies and helped each other or fought in war...
Therefore the open mindedness of Japan to new innovations and ideas in economy and political structure paved the way for its success in domination in the industrial world. ... Starting with technological imports from Great Britain, the U.S. continued in its strive for technology with the development of the cotton gin in the 1820's and the sewing machine in the 1870's. ...
Factors such as economic, social, leadership and political has the same impact in the making of modern Russia, as much as future military conflicts. ... However if it wasn't for the war Russia would never had realized the vital fields it needs to improve and modernize such as the navy, machine guns, railway system, etc. ...