Of The Soviet
Found 9 free book(s)The rise and decline of the Soviet economy
content.csbs.utah.eduMany scholars of the Soviet Union would disagree in judging Soviet economic performance a ‘success’ for three reasons: ~1! political repression and the famine mortality following the collectivization of agriculture,~2! negligible growth in con-sumption, and ~3! the failure of the Soviet Union to achieve a western standard of living.
The Afghanistan war and the breakdown of the Soviet Union
faculty.washington.eduthe Soviet economy had stopped growing almost entirely and that economic impera-tives led to its collapse. Since the Soviet economy could not meet the demand for consumer goods from the rising urban middle class, it began losing their support.10 Incremental economic and political reforms were sabotaged by an alliance of
Country Profile: Afghanistan
www.loc.govSoviet troops, who then endured a very effective decade-long guerrilla war. Between 1979 and 1989, two Soviet-sponsored regimes failed to defeat the loose federation of mujahideen guerrillas that opposed the occupation. In 1988 the Soviet Union agreed to create a neutral Afghan state, and the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989.
Stalin’s Constitution of the USSR
insidethecoldwar.orgSoviet Socialist Republics in accordance with Article 14 of the Constitution, in so far as they do not, by virtue of the Constitution, come within the jurisdiction of organs of the U.S.S.R. that are accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., that is, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The Soviet Union after 1945: Economic Recovery and ...
warwick.ac.ukThe Soviet Union was the only warlike power to emerge from the war with its prewar regime intact and, if anything, reinforced. In the postwar years Stalin’s rule
A Brief History of the Berlin Crisis of 1961 - Archives
www.archives.govwould later call the election of Kennedy a “fundamental improvement” in Soviet-American relations (State Department, Feb. 1970, p.1). On January 6, 1961, Khrushchev pronounced Soviet support for ongoing national wars of liberation and further stressed that the Western powers must end their “occupational regime”
Stalin’s Terror and the Long-Term Political Effects of ...
scholar.harvard.eduSoviet Union (Rozenas, Schutte and Zhukov,2017;Lupu and Peisakhin, 2016) have focused on one relatively idiosyncratic form of violence: mass deportation of geographically-concentrated minorities. Both of these con-texts are likely to amplify the …
The U. S. Military Response to the 1960 - 1962 Berlin Crisis
www.archives.govSoviet Union would oppose any and all violations of East Germany’s sovereignty. The chairman of East Germany’s council of state, Walter Ulbricht, also publicly warned the West to negotiate its use of access routes into erlin with his country or risk “interruptions.” He made it clear that
Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis
www.cia.govSoviet commanders—and Western spies—that the action was a strategic exercise in the far north of the USSR. Promoting the illusion, the troops that were called up for the Cuban expedition were told only that they were going to a cold region. Those needing more precise instructions, such as