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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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Escape Routes from Post-Soviet Inflation and Recession
The Soviet Union was transformed, through forced collectivization, from being a food exporter to being unable to feed itself. The command economy limited the competitive gains that could be made from ...
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Europe Before World War I Vs Today
The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but much of present ... (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 ...