After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader ... of many Eastern European countries which ...

The 1990s witnessed one of the most dramatic economic transformations in modern times, as the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union abandoned central planning. Initially, output ...

Reasons for the Cold War The Cuban Crisis Why the USA lost the war in Vietnam Managing the Cold War 1962-85 The end of the Cold War ...

John O’Loughlin, professor of geography, has worked in Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and conducts surveys of the political beliefs of everyday Ukrainians. He has ...

followed shortly thereafter by the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe, that culminated in December 1991 in the formal liquidation of the Soviet Union. The destruction of the ...

In the face of the new independence movements and the revival of ethnic nationalism within the separate republics of the Soviet Union ... entire line of contact in eastern Ukraine.

By 1948, the Soviet Union had emerged from World War II as a global superpower, extending its influence through the installation of communist governments in Eastern Europe, liberated by the USSR ...

Gradual democratization of the Soviet Union and the abolition of ... a welfare state with a planned economy. “Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of autonomous states having ...

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, France, Germany ... rapidly positioning itself as a burgeoning superpower in Eastern Europe, poised to play a pivotal role on the continental ...

The United States and the Soviet Union each wanted their own economic and political systems to prevail in the areas their soldiers occupied -- not only in Germany, but also in Eastern Europe and ...