When the Russian government took control of the USSR in 1991, communist party members lost all legal status. ... Government employees would go weeks, even months, before being paid. ... This crisis should have made the government realize that in order to control inflation they would have to get rid of the rouble, but it didn't (Russia's, 1994). ... In 1998, with the crash of the stock market, the Russians devalued the ruble and no longer made payments on its government debt (U.S., 1998). ... The blame of this crisis goes on government policies. ...

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Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. ... Through coercive tactics this new government seized power and in 1917 Lenin came to power. ... Lenin's government made many achievements. ... Stalin became the most powerful man in Russia. ... March 1985 marks a turning point in the Communist rule of Russia. ...

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Economic nationalism is a protective defense against the Russian federal government's economic dominance. ... Tatarstan, for example, strives to sell its oil at world market prices in foreign markets to generate income, and in 1993-94, the local governments in Tatarstan and Yakutia sought economic decentralization in Russia by refusing to pay federal taxes. Consequently, an agreement reached between the federal government and the republics gave the latter what they wanted: increased economic autonomy (Drobizheva). ... The government's misguided attempt to rest its reform...

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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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Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. ... Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. ... Their culture would now officially be based upon and secured by implications of the newly formed government. ... Implementing Lenin's plan, the Russian avant-garde began to draw plans to decorate all major cities in Russia. ... IZO was Responsible for organizing the country's artistic ideology under the new Soviet Governmen...

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General causes of the Russian Revolution Poverty In order to understand Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution in the year 1917, perhaps an insight into the causes of the Russian revolution would shed light upon some of the reasons as to why he was a major player in the fight. ... Politicized Workforce The urban workforce that fed the government was growing politically and so the political aspect was growing to be an issue that was led to the Russian revolution. ... The Russian revolution fell heavily on the government considering the fact that the workforce from the urban centers part...

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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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Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. ... It is reported that in his last years his ability to speak Russian deteriorated and he spoke only Georgian. The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded wh...

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However, this agreement fell through on the basis that President Yanukoych wanted to remain close with the Russian government. ... With this new government, Ukraine was ready to defend itself against Russia who ordered Russian troops to cross the border of Ukraine and establish itself within Crimea in late February9. ... Once the invasion took place, the Russian forces took over multiple infrastructure buildings, government buildings, and telecommunication posts. ... Since the invasion the tensions have escalated to combat between the anti-Russian Ukrainians and the Russian army. ... The respo...

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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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In 1921, the League established the first high commissioner for refugees under the guardianship of Fridtjof Nansen to deal first with the Russian refugees in .A passport was established for the first time for these refugees. ... These revolutionary style governments were seen in countries like France, Germany, Poland and Russia. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make it to these two countries ran to Asia minor...

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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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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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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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Some people called it paranoia, Stalin's obvious fear of being "left behind" or defeated because of Russia's backwardness, other's called it prophecy, that Stalin could predict Russia's fate. ... He believed Germany would invade soon and Russia would be ill equipped to defend itself. ... But without the successes of the five year plans, where would Russia have been? ... He condemned all people in them as traitors to the State and to Russia, people working against communism and therefore against the survival of the Russian people. ... He felt insecure; people were questionin...

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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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In Russian the region is called Zakavkaz"ie, which literally means Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus. ... Russia, the only Northern neighbour of Transcaucasia is Christian country. ... From the beginning of 18th century, Russian Empire had a major role in Transcaucasus region. ... At the same time Karabakh Khanate reunited with Russian Empire and memorandum of peace agreement between Russia and Persia was signed in 1813 in Gyulistan Village (present Shahumian region in Karabakh). ... In 1921 Bolsheviks managed heterogeneous country with more than 50% of non-Russians living on their native r...

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This would have meant that he appealed to the surfs throughout Russia. ... He was a good orator, organised, and worked for the benefit of Russia. ... This meant that he had influence other the minorities, of which there were many throughout Russia. Kamenev's let downs were that he had been opposed to the April Thesis, he wanted a socialist coalition government, and he had had heated debates with Lenin. ... He had a good relationship with the Russian people, which was boosted by him leading them out of the July days. ...

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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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