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Articles about Soviet Union (0-50 of 260)
- Why Was The Berlin Wall Taken Down
By: Brian Jones | - The Berlin Wall, located in Berlin, Germany, was a system of concrete walls, barb-wire fence, checkpoints, and control posts that was designed to stop residents of East Berlin from going into West Berlin. After the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, Germany found itself occupied by the Allied forces of the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain and France. Germany was split in half, one side controlled by Soviet forces that was put into a communist regime while the other half was occupied ...
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- "berlin Has Become One Of The Coolest Cities In Europe," Says German Translation Worker
By: themarketinganalysts | - Its hard to believe that two decades ago, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall came crumbling down. But the celebration and reunification came at a hefty price, said one German Translation worker. Germany endured an 8-year recession. But during the very long and painful recession, the city of Berlin undertook a major transformation. With magnificent new buildings, the city became one of the least expensive cities in Germany and one of the youngest and hippest. With Berli ...
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- Castilian - The Official Language Of Spain
By: Daniel Major | - Many when asked will say that the language of Spain is Spanish though this in fact is not the case. This being that saying that Spanish is the language of Spain would have been like saying that the language of Yugoslavia was Yugoslavian. Yes, the people of Yugoslavia could have been addressed as such but not their language for the name of their language was Servo-Croat. This being the case since there was no such language which could be called 'Yugoslavian'.
Spain much like Yugosl ...
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- Five Things Cuba Is Famous For
By: Daniel DeLa Cruz | - What's all the fuss about cuba? What's this tiny little island just a few hundred miles of the coast of Florida famous for? You might be surprise... The cigars, the rum, the women, the dancing, not to mention the baseball. Ohh, and don't forget about Castro.
#1. It's cigars. Cuban cigars are known worldwide as the best cigars. As the best they are also very expensive. Cuban cigars have been called the forbidden fruit because of their distinctive flavor and aroma. The Cuban governm ...
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- The Devil's Arcade-venues To Date Russian Women
By: Larry Cervantes | - Odessa is a mysterious and ancient city where East meets West and intrigue rules the day. The setting for numerous movies of espionage and international suspense, the city of just over 1 million souls was recently a key location in the Hollywood blockbuster Transporter 3 as well as several films of the 007 franchise for good reason. Capitalize on this unearthly mood in a city where a night on the town is an indulgent adventure not soon forgotten.
Odessa is one of the largest cities ...
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- Live Chat Raises The Bar In Online Dating
By: Larry Cervantes | - As international barriers to romance dissolve thanks to an online garrison of global match makers, technology has advanced to bring loving couples together ever more quickly and intimately. The current messenger of choice for online dating communication is Live Chat, wherein typed messages are exchanged real time between would be friends and lovers.
A prime example of this virtual Cupids arrow was recently implemented by AnastasiaDate.com, a premiere international resource for co ...
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- Introduction To Russian Women And Russian Mail Order Brides
By: Daniel DeLa Cruz | - With the spread of different and affordable means of communication through the Internet, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new player has arisen in the age old custom of so called mail order brides. Every day, more and more men turn to romance tours, marriage agencies, international dating websites, and introduction services in an effort to meet, date, and even marry women from countries that formed the Soviet Union.
A few decades ago the mail order bride phenomenon was hea ...
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- Nuclear Power: Friend Or Foe?
By: Artie Megibben | - You hear the word “nuclear” and all sorts of things come to mind––none of them good. Rogue nations enriching uranium to wipe out half the map…solid citizens carrying placards and chanting “No nukes!” as a radioactive generators threaten to be built in their families’ backyards …presidential candidates trying extra hard not to mispronounce that tricky word as “nucular.”
But when it comes to nuclear power as an energy source ...
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- A Brief Encounter With A Space Shuttle
By: Sanjay Verma | - The late sixties and the early seventies saw a flurry of activity at the NASA headquarters as various manned missions to the moon were executed one after the other. Christopher Freville reasons that the race to the moon was basically triggered by the Cold War between the US and the former Soviet Union. Their battle for supremacy in missile technology gave birth to powerful rockets which had immense lifting power. According to John F. Kennedy, the former president of the USA, launching a spacecra ...
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- The Freezing Cold War Years
By: Sanjay Verma | - The Cold War is a state of relationship between the USSR and its surrounding regions, and the Western World led by the United States over a period ranging from 1945 to 1991. The Cold War according to Christopher Freville expressed itself in military tension, conflict in political ideologies and economic competition between the two sides.
Bernard Baruch is attributed with first using the term Cold War. He was a presidential advisor and US financier. In a speech delivered on April 16 ...
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- Learning From China India Has The Advantage Of Being Young
By: Hardeep Kainth | -
OUR strategists, retired diplomats, ex-service officers and media persons have been engaged in an intense debate on how to deal with a rising China which appears to be playing the game of nations to our disadvantage. China has had a decade and half lead in initiating economic reforms. It has consistently maintained a faster growth rate than India.
China has expanded its international trade at a pace not conceivable by India. Its military modernization and infrastructure developmen ...
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- Where To Stay In Russia
By: Kupun bonta | - Visit Russia today and explore the undiscovered wonders! Russia is a transcontinental state located between the Europe and Asia continents with Moscow being its capital city. It is the largest country in the world with a population of over a hundred and forty million people. With the disbanding of the Soviet Union, guests can now explore a wide range of ancient and exciting cultures, from the enduring village life of Irkutsk and Siberia to the scintillating regal Russia of St. Petersburg. One of ...
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- Couch Enforcement In Keene New Hampshire Politically Motivated?
By: Ajay Verma | - The word soviet means council, as in city council or a committee. It is a democratically elected body of people set up with the purpose of controlling the lives of others. These people would get together and plan the lives of those in their local communities, answering to higher up, larger soviets until they reached the Supreme Soviet where the central planning happened. That is basically how the Soviet Union was run, with the consent of the governed. The community soviets would lay their plans, ...
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- Are China's Cheap Traders Outstaying Their Welcome In Russia?
By: Chris Devonshire-Ellis | - The massive Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, home to some 60,000 mainland Chinese traders and with an estimated turnover of nearly a billion dollars a year has been forcibly closed by Russian authorities on the grounds of improper hygiene and environmental standards. The market has thrived since 1991, when the collapse of the Soviet Union coincided with Chinas manufacturing surplus of cheap goods and while Russians were relatively cash-strapped and lacking light industrial and consu ...
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- The Internet And Present-day Living
By: Max Wright | - The whole of everything has its origin. Where is the beginning of the web? It is very wholesome to be familiar with the history of the Internet or the World Wide Web. All changes and we change too.
Our world-view started to improve with incident occurred in 1957. The Soviet Union started the 1st sputnik Sputnik 1 into orbit. But the USA had their personal programme about satellite development. This all led to the creation of the United States Department of Defence ARPA (the Advanc ...
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- Government Motors Is Dead. Long Live Government Motors...
By: J. Litle | - The once-official mouthpiece of the former Soviet Union says America has gone Marxist. The General Motors saga makes for a good case in point. Does the charge hold up? You decide...
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent [sic] into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed...
Pravda Online, American capitalism gone with a whimper
Pravda is the Russian word for truth. It is also the name of Russia ...
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- Russian Dating For Possible Future Matrimony
By: Mark De Schutter | - In our new global intimacy, in which one can wake up in New York and be in Moscow, Russia later that evening, there's no impediment to the process of Russian dating for possible future matrimony. The idea of taking a Russian woman in marriage has become more accepted and even normal as the years since the fall of the old Soviet Union have receded into memory.
What then, should be known about these sorts of dating activities? First of all, there are many agencies that specialize in ...
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- The Enduring Popularity Of Russian Brides
By: Mark De Schutter | - The enduring popularity of Russian brides has been a fact in our popular Western culture at least since the end of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Once the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, and also as a consequence of the efforts of then-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, it was like the dam holding back a sea of beautiful Russian women had finally been breached.
Not soon after the events which took place in 1989 and especially after the Soviet Union as we knew it began t ...
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- A Short Overview Of Gulag History
By: Erik Heyl | - If you've been planning a trip to Russia, you've probably heard of the gulags. But what exactly are they? Are they just jails? or something more?
There are many different types of jails throughout the world, some with better records of humane treatment than others. For instance, in the United States, prisoners are treated very humanely, due to that countries focus on overall human rights. But in other countries the same cannot be said.
At the other end of the spectr ...
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- Socialism Betrayed: Behind The Collapse Of The Soviet Union
By: Progress Books | - For workers and oppressed peoples the highpoint event of the twentieth century was the Russian October Revolution of 1917. Likewise, the great tragedy of the century was the shocking overthrow of Soviet socialism and the demise of the USSR. Socialism Betrayed sets out to explain how such a terrible defeat was allowed to happen and succeeds better than most similar attempts.
This book is very well researched. Chapter six has 154 footnotes. Moreover, the authors utilize not only par ...
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- Hockey And Fire On The Ice
By: Jim Brown | - Hockey is the common designation for ice hockey. This is a popular team sport played on ice in indoor rinks in Canada, the United States, and countries of the former Soviet Union. Other nations have fielded ice hockey teams but they have only occasionally been able to gain major wins--none higher than third place.
*Teams from seven nations are the most likely to be winners of medals in international competitions. These teams are Canada, United States, Czech Republic, Finland, Rus ...
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- Enjoying International Hockey Competitions
By: Jim Brown | - The International Ice Hockey Federation organizes the annual Ice Hockey World Championships. During the early years of the competition, Canadian teams dominated the rink. With increasing competition from other national teams following World War II, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden became a larger force, beginning to successfully compete and win medals.
*Because of varying standards about what constitutes amateur status, by 1954 European and Soviet Union teams were win ...
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- An Overview Of The Politics In Russia
By: Ivan G | - Political system in Russia has countered massive challenged since its independence through the collapse of Soviet Union in the year 1991. The challenges were far from over even in 1993 when the then President Boris Yeltsin resorted to military forces to dislodge the current parliament and announce fresh elections. The Russian constitutional crisis that took place in 1993 has been the favorite subject of discussion on the Russian Forum. The 1978 constitution adopted by the then Russian Repub ...
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- The Shootdown Of Korean Airlines Flight 007
By: William Stephenson | - On September 1st, 1983, a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 was shot out of the skies over the Soviet Unions Eastern port area of Vladivostok near the Kamchatka Peninsula. The airliner purportedly drifted west of their intended flight path from Anchorage to Seoul, South Korea and violated the airspace of the Soviet Union. This event occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War had many isolated casualties, but this indiscriminate killing of ...
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- Vilnius Stag Nights - The In's And Outs Of Planning A Memorable Stag Do In Vilnius
By: Brian Small | - The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, does not at first thought seem like a viable stag do destination. It is in northern Europe, it is a former Soviet republic, and well, where the heck is it, anyway? When you think of stag do's, you likely are arranging to hot weather and women with tan lines. You will not find this in Vilnius.
What you'll find in Vilnius, however, is an exceedingly historic country, not overrun by tourists, and absolutely original in every way. Because of its ge ...
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- Obama Documentation Activists - Not Conspiracy Theorists
By: Rev Michael Bresciani | - Most of those filing law suits to subpoena Obamas documents are lawyers, politicians and military people none who have ever been known to be conspiracy theorists on any subject. The attempt to put them in the same class with those who chase UFO sightings or those who are still looking for the Holy Grail is demeaning and ridiculous.
Questions about the body of Hitler, the whereabouts of Osama and how many shooters were on the grassy knoll and other conspiracy questions all ...
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- Russian Imperialism And Bloody Empire Building
By: C. Read | - Russia is an ethno-chauvinist state which has never given up the dream of re-constituting the Soviet empire. It has now invaded and destroyed a small, ancient, and democratic Georgian state allied to the US and NATO. Russia imperialism will now be turned eastwards after destroying this non-Slavic entity and the Americans and NATO will do nothing proving that American weakness and perfidy is real, and that NATO and the EU are little more than conference clubs busy with meetings and paper work. Ha ...
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- World War Ii
By: Jeff Stats | - "I give snatches; I describe episodes; I makeas it weresnapshots in time; I reflect personal recollections, thoughts, experiences, and views of specific individuals.." those are the words of Marius Broekmeyer the author of Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, 1941-1945. This line represents the main idea of the book and its thesis. The author is providing the reader with authentic memoirs and thoughts of people who lived through that horrible war and thus he is taking the reader ...
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- Peter Schweizer. Reagan's War: The Epic Story Of His Forty Year Struggle
By: Jeff Stats | - Peter Schweizer in his book Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communism portrays Ronald Reagan as honorable anti-communist. Every action that Reagan performed Schweizer interpreted as another step against the Soviet Union. Schweizer draws upon "Reagan's private correspondence over the course of forty years, classified documents from six different countries, formative life events largely hidden from the public, [and] his own ideas and words uttere ...
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- Good To Know About International Shipping To Europe
By: Nir Dotan | - Trade routes through Europe have been the object of conflict for centuries and have changed drastically and often because of the constantly shifting borders and governments on the continent. It is only recently, since the formation of the European Union and the earlier fall of the Soviet Union, that international shipping routes have been established to go to all nations in Europe. Free trade and a single currency, the Euro, have assisted greatly with this process.
International ...
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- Disaster In The Soviet Union The Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown
By: Cameron Martel 1 | - In the Western region of the former Soviet Union, at that time the only Superpower in the world other than the United States, disaster struck the sleepy Ukraine town of Pripyat. On April 26, 1986, in the cold early morning hours, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The resulting disaster hit a level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the only incident in the history of atomic energy to do so. Following the initial explosion, fire and subsequent explosions from the site sent radi ...
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- Going To Estonia On Vacation
By: Andrew Gibson | - Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union since 1991 and it borders Latvia and Russia and is one of the small Baltic States lying on the Gulf of Finland.
Many tourists visit Tallinn, the capital city and stay in self catering holiday apartments. It is popular with the tourists for its shops, restaurants, museums and art galleries. Tallinn is home to one of the best-preserved old towns in Europe, where twisty cobblestone alleyways that give the area a mysterious otherworld ...
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- Symphony No.7 Op.60 Dmitri Shostakovich - The Leningrad Symphony "€" A Personal Interpretation
By: Philip Spires | - Like much music of quality, the Seventh Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Leningrad, is either loved or hated, rather than tolerated. It is famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view, for its first movement, a unique statement in the history of music, a movement lasting just under half of the symphonys massive eighty minutes. It is also music, I believe, that is uniquely misunderstood, the popular interpretation being far too nave an analysis of the motives of a composer as unp ...
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- From The Mujahadeen Comes A Man With A Mission
By: Leon Newton | - Al Qaeda in its present form did not yet exist. What did exist was a growing number of militant Arab groups angered by the forced displacement of the Palestinians, the violence against Muslims, and the growing interference in the Middle East by Western governments.
In 1979, another incursion into a Muslim country set the seventeenth son of a devout Wahhabist Saudi construction magnate-a-self-made billionaire said to have railed often against the Jews and their Western allies-into the m ...
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- The Vietnam War: What Role Did Outside Countries Play?
By: Nick Carter | - Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was responsible for supplying North Vietnam with military apparatus in the form of tanks, helicopters, planes, arms and artillery. They also provided medical supplies. The Soviet union suffered minimally, in terms of human life, when compared with other countries that played a role in the conflict. It's estimated that the number of deaths of Soviet Union citizens would have been in the single digits. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian gover ...
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- Euro Impact On The East European Countries And Banks
By: Tudor | - Prague, 15 June 2001 (RFE/RL) -- The German central bank (the Bundesbank) estimates that more than one out of every three German marks circulates outside of Germany -- signifying billions of marks. The banks says the majority of them are in Eastern Europe and the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Because of the mark's stability, and Germany's role as a place of employment for Eastern European workers who send their money home, the mark has evolved into a de facto second currency in t ...
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- Auschwitz Concentration Camp
By: michal costaminnego | - Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Owicim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Krakw and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Owicim was incorporated into Germany and renamed Auschwitz.
The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz ...
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- The Sniper Rifle Called The Dragunov Svd
By: kamikazeadmin | - The sniper rifle called the Dragunov SVD is the weapon of choice by the very people who make the high-powered rifle. The semi-automatic weapon is the semi-automatic weapon of choice by the Soviet army. The gun is operated by gas and is significantly different than other semi-automatic guns which have been choice weapons in the past by many different militaries.
The AK and AKM guns did show some similarities to the Dragunov SVD such as the gas recovery components as well as the bol ...
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- Sambo Russian For Judo
By: Chris Pizzo | - Sambo is an acronym for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya or Self-defense without weapons martial art developed in the Soviet Union during the early half of the twentieth century.
This martial arts form is practiced as a sport and also as training for combat. Sambo was born out of the need for one standard sport combative for the military rather then the many diverse regional styles. Rather then being invented, Sambo is really a collection of techniques from many different styles making ...
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- Turkmenistan Casinos
By: Adel Awwad | - Turkmenistan is one of the states that came from the falling apart of the Soviet Union. While it has a long history from being an offshoot of the Hunnish Empire in the 6th century, it's never been much more than a backwater of history.
This has changed in recent years as the country's huge gas reserves have been discovered and exploited. It is still, however, distressingly poor and according to Amnesty International has the third worst press freedoms in the world.
I ...
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- Kyrgyzstan Casinos
By: Adel Awwad | - The actual number of Kyrgyzstan casinos is something in a little doubt. As information from this country, out in the very most central part of Central Asia, can be difficult to get, this might not be too surprising. Whether there are two or three legal casinos is the thing at issue, perhaps not quite the most earth-shattering piece of information that we don't have.
What will be true, as it is of most of the ex-Soviet states, and certainly true of those in Asia, is that there will ...
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- Armenia Casinos
By: Adel Awwad | - In common with most of the states that came out of the ex-Soviet Union and that are now in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Armenia and Armenians took readily to casinos and gambling in general.
Again, in common with their fellow states in the CIS, there had been a thriving underground, or illegal, gambling scene before the breakup. This was all a part of the almost insanely large black market or illegal economy that existed. As this economy exclusively (and necessari ...
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- Zionism Is Not Fascism, But Could Be
By: Obadiah Shoher | - The United States and Britain did not support Israel in the 1948 War of Independence. The Soviet Union did, for a reason. Stalin remembered the huge role Russian Jews played in establishing the Soviet regime, and was sure they would build a socialist state in the Middle East.
The Exile made the Jews afraid of the mob; they long for stronger state. Jews are smart and opinionated, and many want the power. Monarchies reserve the first roles for hereditary rulers. Democracies do not e ...
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- Why Employ Workers From Bulgaria And Romania?
By: Davinos Greeno | - Bulgaria and Romania are to become the next two members of the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2007. Lets start with a look at a few interesting facts about two of the poorest members of the EU most people know very little about.
A few interesting facts about Bulgaria
Until 1989 the country was known as the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) and was ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). By the time the impact of Mikhail Gorbachevs reform program in the Sov ...
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- What Is Asbestos?
By: Robert Michael | - What is Asbestos?
According to the Asbestos Network, asbestos actually refers to several naturally occurring minerals. These minerals have been used in commercial products to increase strength and flexibility. The Asbestos Network claims that these minerals are a mix of metals, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Asbestos, like coal or gold is mined. Some of the countries that mine asbestos include the United Sates, Canada, South America and the former Soviet Union.
Type ...
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- Differences In Work Ethic Between Russians And Americans
By: John Kunkle | - Lynn Visson's "Wedded Strangers" identifies differences in work ethic between Russians and Americans:
Americans, with a work ethic, grew up knowing they would have to work hard to get a job. For Russians, under the Soviet system, the government found them a job or they got a job through personal contacts.
Under the Soviet system, the idea was to get away with as little work as possible, as there were no pay raises. There was no real threat of getting fired either. ...
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- Do Mass Media Influence The Political Behavior Of Citizens
By: Jonathon Hardcastle | - Outside of the academic environment, a harsh and seemingly ever-growing debate has appeared, concerning how mass media distorts the political agenda. Few would argue with the notion that the institutions of the mass media are important to contemporary politics. In the transition to liberal democratic politics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the media was a key battleground. In the West, elections increasingly focus around television, with the emphasis on spin and marketing. Democratic pol ...
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