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	Back in the USSR: A Soviet Odyssey
		Denied conversation by the turbine whine of the Soviet helicopter, each of the five passengers was wrapped in a noisy cocoon of privacy, alone with his own thoughts.
		Glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring of political and economic affairs) are the twin touchstones upon which the growing democratization of the USSR relies.
		Our sophisticated shepherds and their colleagues could and did discuss failures of the Soviet economy in the Breznhev era ("the period of stagnation," they always call it) and talk about the high stakes gamble Gorbachev and his allies are taking on the road to such rapid restructuring.
	howard.weaver.org /ussr (2289 words)

	Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russia was by far the largest Republic the Soviet Union dominating in nearly all land area population economic output and political The territory of the Soviet Union also and in its most recent times approximately to that of the late Imperial Russia with notable exclusions of Poland and Finland.
		The disintegration of Communist allies in Eastern heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
		Soviet foreign policy played a major role the tenor of international relations for nearly four decades and the Union had official relations with the majority the nations of the world by the 1980s.
	www.freeglossary.com /Soviet_Union (1862 words)

	Soviet Union:
		Soviet troops intervened in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and cited the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Johnson Doctrine and later Nixon Doctrine, and helped oust the Czechoslovak government in 1968, sometimes referred to as the Prague Spring.
		The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law.
		After the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991, Russia claimed to be the legal successor to the Soviet state on the international stage.
	winelib.com /wiki/Soviet_Union (4580 words)

	ipedia.com: Soviet Union Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russia was by far the largest Republic in the Soviet Union, dominating in nearly all respects: land area, population, economic output, and political influence.
		Soviet foreign policy played a major role determining the tenor of international relations for nearly four decades, and the Soviet Union had official relations with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s.
		As the Soviet Union achieved rough nuclear parity with the United States, Cold War superpower competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. gave way to Détente and a more complicated pattern of international relations in which the world was no longer clearly split into two clearly opposed blocs in the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.ipedia.com /soviet_union.html (1713 words)

	Politics of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For most of the history of the Soviet Union, its political system was characterized by divergence between the formal system as expressed in the Constitution of the Soviet Union and actual practice.
		There was a legislative body; the Congress of Soviets, from 1917 to 1936 and the Supreme Soviet, from 1936 on, but generally it functioned only to approve, unanimously, items placed on the agenda by the Politburo, the centralized leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
		Their advantages were discipline and a platform supporting the broad based movement of workers, peasants, soldiers and sailors who had seized factories, organized soviets, appropriated the lands of the aristocracy and other large landholders, deserted from the army and mutinied against the navy during the Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_the_Soviet_Union (1409 words)

	SOVIET UNION : Encyclopedia Entry
		The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law.
		Soviet leaders faced a fundamental dilemma: the strong central controls of the increasingly conservative bureaucracy that had traditionally guided economic development had failed to respond to the complex demands of industry of a highly developed, modern economy.
		The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Soviet_Union (7236 words)

	Teaching about the Soviet Union. ERIC Digest
		Despite the numerous differences in their histories, political systems, and cultures, many of the problems faced by the United States are also faced by the Soviet Union.
		Content on the Soviet Union might be infused into standard high school government or economics courses in the form of lessons on centrally planned economics or government bureaucracy.
		Large areas of the Soviet Union remain frozen in winter and undergo surface thaw resulting in swamplike conditions during warmer months, hindering road construction and transportation to the outreaches of Siberia.
	www.ericdigests.org /pre-927/soviet.htm (1753 words)

	Wikinfo \| Left-wing politics
		In politics, the term left-wing (or political left or simply on the left) refers to the segment of the political spectrum associated either with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism, (in the United States sense of the word), or with opposition to right-wing politics.
		The term is also often used to characterize the politics of the Soviet Union and other on-party communist states, although many (perhaps most) on the political left (even including some who call themselves Marxist) would not consider their own politics to have anything significant in common with those of these states.
		Many Greens deny that the "left" label provides is useful to describe them, and build their green politics on a different set of assumptions, usually asserting that local control improves on central control, and that only a few issues benefit from global unity.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Left-wing_politics (1007 words)

	Rhetoric and Rationality: A Study of Democratization in the Soviet Union
		The portrait of Gorbachev occupying a median in a unidimensional politics of perestroika conceals a previously unrecognized puzzle.
		Finifter and Mickiewicz conclude from their opinion survey that proponents of political democracy were actually more likely to oppose than to welcome a reduction of the state's role in the economy, while proponents of economic reforms were not necessarily proponents of the right to strike or protest.
		Some groups developed full-fledged political platforms spanning virtually the entire spectrum of ideological principles (monarchism, anarchism, christian democracy, social democracy, nationalism, fascism), but the members of these political groups were the most likely to suffer arrest for their activities.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /polisci/faculty/anderson/new89ers.htm (7269 words)

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		Change in the Soviet Union, broadly associated with the country's movement into the post-mobilizational phase of development, was but one important development in a society which has been evolving since the 1917 Revolution.
		While it is assumed that course participants have not had graduate courses in the Soviet and Russian studies area, it is likely that many of you have some knowledge of the Soviet Union and of the issues comprising the contemporary Russian policy agenda.
		Hahn, The Politics of Soviet Agriculture, 1960-1970, 1972.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~jpw/syl596.txt (4745 words)

	H-Net Review: Stephanie Wilson McConnell on Changing Course: Ideas, Politics and The Soviet ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mendelson uses the Soviet decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989, after a bloody ten-year war in that country, to illustrate the changes that occurred in the Kremlin between the late 1970s and the late 1980s.
		By tracing the increasing role of the expert (i.e., academic) communities in Soviet policymaking, Mendelson shows how the Gorbachev coalition was able to win influence in domestic policy over the "old thinkers," who continued to believe that the Soviet Union's greatest threat came from the United States and western capitalism.
		She uses newly released Soviet documents and interviews with the individuals involved in the Afghan war, to argue that the domestic rivalries determined the course of the war and Soviet foreign policy.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14868948143089 (882 words)

	soviet union music - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		The Soviet Union in the 1980s -ii- The Soviet Union in the 1980s Proceedings of The Academy of Political...Berliner 49 Legal Policy in the Soviet Union John N. Hazard 57 Housing...
		The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future...Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Soviet Union and the challenge of the future.
		Just two of his ballets had been performed in the Soviet Union: Symphomy in C by Paris Opera Ballet in 1958 and Theme...shielding their eyes from the moonlight of Tchaikovskys music, I was sent into a state of happy bewilderment.
	www.questia.com /search/soviet-union-music (1921 words)

	Music under Soviet rule
		The Soviet state ordained truth through its total control of the Soviet media, a control which ran to revising this truth, often in quite contradictory ways, whenever the necessity arose.
		For most of the post-war period, this much was understood by most Western political and literary commentators on the USSR; yet, for various reasons, such knowledge was rarely current among the majority of Western musical pundits.
		Dmitri Shostakovich; in fact, it is only in the last fifteen years, beginning with the publication in the West in 1979 of Testimony, "The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov", that music critics have begun to comprehend the full significance of his major scores.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/contents.html (731 words)

	Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder: References
		THE HARVEST OF SORROW: SOVIET COLLECTIVIZATION AND THE TERROR-FAMINE.
		"The Man-Made Famine of 1932-1933 and Collectivization in Soviet Ukraine," in Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko (Eds.).
		Mace, James E. "The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine," in Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko (Eds.).
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/USSR.REFERENCES.HTM (2360 words)

	Workers World [Sam Marcy]: Machine politics in the Soviet Union (Dec. 26, 1991)
		One house--the Soviet of Deputies--represented all the population, all the workers and peasants.
		And organization is especially significant and hard to decipher when politics are drowned out by monolithic conceptions inherited from the past, when no voice from the point of view of the working class is allowed, and no inner-party socialist democracy.
		In the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin said: the military bases in Russia don't belong to the federal government, they belong to Russia.
	www.workers.org /marcy/1991/sm911226.html (2595 words)

	When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics
		The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union.
		Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development.
		He demonstrates the central importance of foreign relations to the political imagination of Soviet leaders, both in their plans for industrialization and in the struggle for supremacy among Lenin's successors.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6257.html (208 words)

	TIME.com: Soviet Union Back-Alley Politics in the Kremlin -- May 29, 1989 -- Page 1
		But this, last week, was the Soviet Union, which is finding that one side effect of glasnost is political alley fighting in public.
		Soviet sources say that when he finished, Gorbachev advised him to make sure he was right "because I will ask you tough questions." A few days later, Pravda disclosed that Gdlyan would be suspended from his post as prosecutor.
		"As the guardian of party orthodoxy and authority, his aims are political, not personal." Ultimately at stake, perhaps, is the corruption of official life that is being exposed by the new politics.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,957833,00.html (707 words)

	The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Causes and Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
		Integration and Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Regional and Global Security (Brown University: Watson Institute Occasional Paper #30, 1997) 155 KB PDF file
		Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps (University of Texas at Austin)
	newarkwww.rutgers.edu /guides/glo-sov.html (216 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Nationalities Question In The Soviet Union
		Soviet Union — Politics and government — 1985-1991
		tags: 1985-1991, ethnic groups politics, nationalism, nationalism — soviet union, perestroika, politics and government, smith, graham, 1953-, soviet union, soviet union — politics and government — 1985-1991, union of soviet socialist republics
		The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1199722 (338 words)

	U.S.-China Deadlock. Soviet Union's Role (The Nation, February 4, 1956)
		Soviet Union's Role (The Nation, February 4, 1956)
		The article focuses on Soviet Union's role in the U.S.-China deadlock.
		With a barrage of documents and press statements, the U.S. and Communist China have disclosed that their respective ambassadors have reached a deadlock after four months of private talks at Geneva, Switzerland.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13392387 (140 words)

	Tomfolio.com: History: Russia and Soviet Union, Soviet Politics
		The First Economic Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union (1928-1932) seemed to many such a contrast to the economic depression of the capitalist countries that it generated great enthusiasm, expressed in this book, which turned to great disappointment.
		Diplomatic relations between Western powers and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the end of World War II.
		Academician Trainin outlines the political system under the 1936 USSR Constitution and the political steps taken since the October Revolution to enfranchise the workers.
	www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=4415 (704 words)

	48,7% Ukrainians would like to return the Soviet Union < Politics < COMMUNIST.RU — english version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For example, 51,1% of the respondents claim Ukraine not to be an independent state.
		48,7% said they would like to return the Soviet Union, 28,3% of them but consider their own wish to be utopian.
		The author of the article was embarrassed while comparing this fact to those 90% that supported the departure with the Soviet Union in 1991.
	english.communist.ru /2006/11/09/48-7-ukrainians-would-like-to-return-the-soviet-union.htm (208 words)

	Will America Back Out? (The Nation, January 13, 1945)
		Either its criticism has been directed primarily against the Soviet Union and Britain upon the tacit or explicit assumption that American policies stand on a higher ground.
		Liberalism is equally inadequate which assumes that America has a vantage-point of international virtue from which it can survey, and be offended by, the power politics of the Soviet Union and Britain upon the continent.
		Such a liberalism merely proves that it is unable to discern the hidden realities of international politics.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13427239 (175 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » Dämmerung Im Kreml. English
		Soviet Union — Politics and government — 1953-1985
		tags: 1953-1985, 1975-1985, europe, europe — foreign relations — soviet union, foreign relations, leonhard, wolfgang, politics and government, soviet union, soviet union — foreign relations — 1975-1985, soviet union — foreign relations — europe, soviet union — politics and government — 1953-1985
		The Soviet Paradox : External Expansion, Internal Decline
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1220473 (323 words)

	MIT OpenCourseWare \| Political Science \| 17.57J Soviet Politics and Society, 1917-1991, Spring 2003 \| Home
		At its greatest extent the former Soviet Union encompassed a geographical area that covered one-sixth of the Earth's landmass.
		It spanned 11 time zones and contained over 100 distinct nationalities, 22 of which numbered over one million in population.
		Your use of the MIT OpenCourseWare site and course materials is subject to the conditions and terms of use in our Legal Notices section.
	ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-57JSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm (124 words)

	Amazon.com: When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics: Books: Jon Jacobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture) by Terry Martin on page 226, and Back Matter
		The Soviet Experiment: Russia, The USSR, and the Successor States by Ronald Grigor Suny on page 168
		Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Mary R. Habeck on page 82
	www.amazon.com /Soviet-Union-Entered-World-Politics/dp/0520089766 (960 words)

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