The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. ... The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy, and the United States' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1...

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Society was brought from a position decades behind the West to one of near economic and scientific equality within thirty years. ... Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ...

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In his speech in Rome, he stressed: "We need spiritual values; we need a revolution of the mind. ... The revolution reached the Soviet Union as well. ... The U.S. long-term policy of withholding Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy (e.g., Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty), and the United States" own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom". ...

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This action diminished the revolution and left 25,000 Hungarians dead. ... Also two other military groups were added: the Military Scientific-Technical Council and the Technical Committee (Appendix C: The Warsaw Pact, online). ... The Soviets lost control of the Warsaw Pact allies in 1989 to 1990 because the Communist parties were taken over by revolutions in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. ...

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