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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
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August August
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov
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USSR USSR
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Wladyslaw Gomulka Wladyslaw Gomulka
Władysław Gomułka , 1905-82, Polish Communist leader. Long a Communist, he helped establish the Polish Workers' party and was (1943-49) secretary of its central committee. After World War II, he served (1945-49) as deputy premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, he was purged in 1949... Read more
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USSR reborn; Alarm as president-to-be Putin calls for new 'Soviet' bloc to...
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...raised fears of a revival of the USSR after he revealed...rebuild Russia's old communist empire. Instead...attempt to revive the USSR.' But announcing...about rebuilding the USSR in one way or another...political foundation is a demand of the present time...
USSR reborn.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...raised fears of a revival of the USSR after he revealed...rebuild Russia's old communist empire. Instead...attempt to revive the USSR.' But announcing...about rebuilding the USSR in one way or another...political foundation is a demand of the present time...
USSR reborn; Alarm as Putin plots a new 'Soviet' bloc to rival Europe and...
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...raised fears of a revival of the USSR after he revealed...rebuild Russia's old communist empire. Instead...attempt to revive the USSR.' But announcing...about rebuilding the USSR in one way or another...political foundation is a demand of the present time...
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review ...contribute little of value to a revival of politics in the 1990s...a command economy, by the Communist Party's monopoly of political...encyclopedic, history of the USSR. For some, the treatment...leaders struggled to satisfy the demands of a more sophisticated society...
Ukrainian security fears justified in wake of Russian elections
Newspaper article from: The Ukrainian Weekly ...large gains by the Communist and agrarian parties...disintegration of the USSR. But Ukrainian demands that its security...the face of the revival of the Russian empire...revival of the former USSR. Recently, even...vocal and persistent demand by Minister Kozyrev...throughout ...
The revival of Russian anti-Semitism.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) ...Byline: Jacobson, Kenneth The revival of Russian anti-Semitism...Gennady Zyuganov, chief of the Communist Party, and Boris Yeltsin...Twentieth century history demands that such outrageous hatred...Soviet anti- Semitism and the USSR's treatment of its Jews were...
Red revival.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy ...Moscow just 15 months before the USSR's collapse--has grown sevenfold...simply as a result of supply and demand. Specifically, it slashed...socialist virtue, the owners of USSR.su are also proudly advertising...socialist sore losers like the Communist Party of Russia. For the most...
Perestroika Cubana.(Rocky Shoals of Reform)(economic reforms )(Essay)
Magazine article from: The National Interest ...newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party released photos...la Revolucion to demand multiparty elections...reform, whereby Communist Party control is...the leader of the USSR. The question that...then, as did the USSR in 1985, is: What...must come from the revival of its private ...
Revolt of the Radiators; We Didn't Get Glasnost Until the Plumbing Broke
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post THE COMMUNIST system has proven...on now in the USSR is the rebellion...would make the USSR a more efficient...dilemma: as a communist, he must defend...minded people who demand the full truth...s spiritual revival. Although they...
Strategic Issues For The Oil Majors In The 1990s
Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends ...business of the non-Communist world was characterised...steady growth (non-Communist world oil consumption...the main areas of demand growth (western...including the revival of confidence in...figure for non-Communist world oil consumption...Eastern Europe and USSR gave promise of...

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