In the mid of 90's Wladimir Putin former KGB officer begun expand own sphere of influences in Russia cooperated with Yeltsin government. ... The purpose here has simply been to determine whether Russian and Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR consented to Germany's full membership in NATO after unification, the alliance would not expand to include any other East European countries. ... By surrounding Russia with m...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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Germany had invaded Russia twice this century and should not be allowed to recover. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, even though there was a Polish government-in-exile in London. ... This new government should then be called the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity- (15). ...

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This possible ABM system has Russia in an uproar. There are definite fears throughout the Russian government if the U.S. builds this ABM system. ... This is a valid fear among Russian officials. ... Russia would then launch in retaliation to the attack. ... The Russian government quickly shot this down, as they could not compete technically or monetarily with the United States. ...

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The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... On November 15, Stalin revealed the Decree on Nationality, which stated that the new Bolshevik government would treat all ethnic minorities...

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(Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans for a democratically elected assembly. ... The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the...

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There were delegates from twenty-seven different countries there, but the Germans and the Russians were not represented. ... They were to convince the German people they have been defeated and that they now must be held responsible for the actions of their government (Dept of State pg 49). ... Also, local self-government will be restored and no central government shall be put in place for the time being (Dept of State pg 49). ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... This democratic government is going to be a very conservative one because of all the r...

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The U.S., like Russia, was very wary of what was going on in Vietnam. ... In 1961, Russia began aiding North Vietnam with supplies and finances. ... North Vietnam was aided by Russia and China, but not with soldiers but with finances, supplies and weaponry. ... The American government controlled South Vietnam, and dictated what its governments steps should be. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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Poland was unquestionably of the greatest concern to the Soviets, as it had been used as a launching pad for the invasion of Russia during both World Wars. ... This resulted in 25,000,000 citizens being deprived of shelter during the harsh Russian winter. ... The Russian population was left starving, as an immense amount of damage was done to the Soviet Unions agricultural capabilities: 98,000 collective farms and 2,890 machine and tractor stations were sacked. ... The Nazi government had bankrupted Germany in an attempt to exterminate the Slavic people, and seize their lands. ... Additionally...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the f...

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World War 2 had made the United States and Russia the two most powerful countries in the world. ... It was interesting to know that even Russia had applied for aid but they never received any. ... The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. ... The Russians and their Communist ideals were ruffling the Americans and their capitalistic feathers. ... The Russians are still there, but Communism isn't, at least, in any threatening light. ...

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Even though Russia and the U.S. had tension for many years, Russia is now backing the United States in Operation Iraqi Freedom even though during events leading up to the war with Iraq, Russia did not back the U.S. ... The Cold War between Russia and the U.S. had many causes. ... The separation of Germany also polarized America and Russia. ... In the 1950's, another issue polarized America and Russia. ... Feldman, stated that "The actual K-19 lies in a Russian ship graveyard, ...

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Great Britain, France and Germany were all decimated either financially and/or physically, leaving only the United States and Russia to duel out for total supremacy. ... This was a huge problem for the anti-communist government of the United States. ... Russia as communist-evil and the United States as anti-communist-good are childish. Whitcomb further argues that this doctrine increased dramatically the hatred toward the United States by the Russians, and hastened the militarization of the Cold War . ... This obvious slap in the face to the post war agreement between Russia and the United...

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At the time of the Great Depression, government intervention in the economy was higher than it had ever been and a special government agency had been set up specifically to prevent depressions and their associated problems, such as bank panics. ... After a century of friendship, Americans and Russians quarreled over Asian questions in the 1890s, and became enemies in 1917 when the Communists seized power, established the Soviet Union, and declared ideological war on the capitalist nations of the West. ... The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this alliance b...

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However, the possession of nuclear arms by Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Israel, and Pakistan are not treated as threats to America's vital interests. ... Before the late 1940's, when the United States helped to push out the Russian occupation of northern Iran, Iran had very little interaction with United States. ... Anti-Western sentiments didn't begin until a revolution was sparked from powerful religious leaders who were discontented with the secular progressive government. ... So when the revolution successful captured the American Embassy in Tehran and o...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... The end game of Détente was to induce the Russians into cooperation with the United States. ... S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. At the same time, Nixon believed that the Russians could benefit fro...

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", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic Greek figure with the strength to hold up the world, but also shows that there was an unwillingness from the American government, or at least the people, to engage in more international warfare. ... They state that differences in the Constitution "have led many to conclude that there is something different about Americans and their vision of government that is reflected in their very different Constitution.... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their cr...

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Détente, which was a peaceful however strained policy of coexistence with the USSR, was de-emphasized, and the United States foreign policy was against all government movements under soviet influence. ... After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... As a result of the Iranian hostage crisis, congress had marked Iran as a terrorist nation and had outlawed the sale of weapons to the Iranian government. ... The Soviet government began to reduce its forces in Europe, and in 1989 pulled ...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing a policy of containment against the Soviet Union in order to keep it in check and from spreading any further than it had already spread. However, as the world enters 1992, the superpower Soviet Union lies in utter destruction and chaos due to the collapse of its political infrastructure. This colla...

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Fidel Castro had just become the President of Cuba, and openly embraced Communism as a form of government, something which the United States was completely opposed to. Castro and the Cuban government had become the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere by December 1960 (Finkelstein 26). ... The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ... Premier Nikita Khrushchev had previously told t...

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To create a new government, the United Nations setup nation wide elections but North Korea would not let them into the north. ... Also, the Soviet Union that once supported the north has collapsed leaving a Russia that is basically aligned with the South Korea. ...

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A certain role in the development of the situation in this area has played and the position occupied by formally independent (from the USSR), the governments of Eastern European countries. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood prevailed in government circles of America B. ...

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