Essays Tagged: "soviet socialist republics"

Alcholism

umption of alcohol is apparently on the rise in the United States, countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and many European nations. This is paralleled by growing evidence of inc ...

(3 pages) 118 1 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Russian Revolution

The real revolution in Russia did not culminate in 1917 with the establishment of the Soviet state that became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It came under the ... with Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik takeover of the government. After Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union, he had history books rewritten to say that he had led the revolution with Lenin.Lenin ... on his 50th birthday. He had become dictator (Daniels 314).In 1928, Stalin started the first of the Soviet Union's five-year plans for economic development. The government began to eliminate private b ...

(6 pages) 190 1 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

A term paper describing the early life of V.I. Lenin and what caused to be such a revolutionary.

unassuming beginnings.What caused the architect of the revolution, founding father of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Marx's most influential intellectual disciple to become the man that ...

(5 pages) 108 1 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Economic Inequalities. "Some people are equal but some are more equal than others," by using this quote by George Orwell, we can understand the inequalities in our society.

ween capitalism and communism, The 'Cold War' between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was illustrated in the years of McCarthyism in the USA. "A red under eve ...

(3 pages) 234 0 4.4 Sep/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

South Korea

ng of the peninsula between the occupying forces of the United States in the south and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the north. The capital and largest city of South Korea is Seoul ...

(5 pages) 160 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

A description, with proof, of problems facing Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, these problems include economic ails, and political leaning back towards communism.

Certain Communist RevivalSince the dissolution of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, the country now known as Russia has been going through many of t ... s worth to the country.There are those in the Russian population that feel that a return to the old Soviet system would bring back the opulence and success that the former Soviet Union enjoyed in the ... er Soviet Union enjoyed in the early-to-mid 1960s, the era of Nikita Khrushchev. During this era in Soviet history, more pharaonic projects completed than at any other time in USSR's history. Such pro ...

(3 pages) 113 1 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

A research paper on The Cuban Missile Crisis..Not an Essay! WN

Third World, occurred in 1962. In the summer of that year, the U.S. government discovered that the Soviets were in the process of deploying nuclear missiles in Communist Cuba. In October, the United ... ngerous.The Cuban Missile Crisis was major confrontation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that occurred in 1962 over the issue of Soviet-supplied missile in ...

(5 pages) 185 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

This is just a general essay on Vladimir Lenin, his life before and after communism.

ch Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). He was born in 1870, and died ... in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR when it was founded in 192 ...

(14 pages) 93 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Joseph Stalin's positive influence on the USSR.

ph Stalin stepped out of Lenin's shadow and claimed he was the next one to farther improve Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin was a very direct but paranoid person and dictator. He killed man ... h he did these unspeakable acts, he made many idealistic and beneficial acts that improved Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the long and short term. Joseph Stalin was a vile and controlling dict ...

(9 pages) 117 1 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The title is "The Cold War" This essay is a thesis on how the Cold War was in fact a much more heated war than it was made out to be.

id not seem fit for the conflict between capitalism (United States of America), communism (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and their followers. The struggle was later dubbed the Cold War, referr ... rnment was overthrown and Vladimir Ilich Lenin established a new communist government. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. Under the new rule, all opposition to the government was erad ...

(10 pages) 394 1 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Cold war

ups of nations practicing different ideologies and political systems. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and its allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the ... of the second world war determined the cold war. As it marked the end of the European Age, USA and Soviet Union became two superpowers and world entered into a nuclear age. World could never predict ...

(7 pages) 201 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Difficulties and complexities of a western European marketing firm researching in an eastern European country, and how the can be overcome.

astern European country, and how the can be overcome.In its final decades of its existence, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 Socialist Soviet Republics (SSR). Three of these in particular shared s ... organized under the heading Commonwealth of Independent States. On December 21, 1991, 11 of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and signed the charter. (The three Baltic re ...

(12 pages) 93 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The contributing factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union [USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)]

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which was established in 1922, was the first communist state in t ... ment controlled all of the industry and agriculture. Yet, under such strict government control, the Soviet Union ended in collapse in the year 1991. The main contributing factor towards the downfall o ... longed decline from the 1970s to the 1980s convinced many that there were serious problems with the Soviet economic model. The annual expansion rate of gross natural product (GNP), which was 5.7 perce ...

(7 pages) 69 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Truism essay. this essay discusses how governments tend to rise and fall. it shows the cycle of government.

ng-lived Chinese Dynasties, to the once immortal Roman Empire, and more recently, the huge Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has followed the same rise and fall cycle. They expanded and grew in pro ...

(4 pages) 34 0 4.7 Jun/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Evaluation of Charles Krauthammer's "The Unipolar Moment Revisited."

icle's main thesis?The main thesis of Krauthammer's article is that: since the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) the international system has been locked into a distinctly modern ...

(14 pages) 41 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

What were the origins and the early manifestations of the Cold War?

t is known, was a war where the two superpowers of the time the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) fought each other in many different battlefronts but never involvi ... products so that the US economy could stay healthy and competitive. After the Second World War the Soviet Union created an "iron curtain" by establishing communist dictatorships in much of Eastern Eu ...

(5 pages) 122 0 3.5 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

"The Wild Children" by Felice Holman and it's Correlation to the Implausibility of a Communistic State

of 1818 and furthermore as Joseph Stalin began his term as head of the newly formed, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Unequivocally, one of the strongest examples of this quote is the mass ... truly an impossibility, a trick of the mind, and all attempts of it have failed or are failing. The Soviet Union fell, as did the Eastern Bloc, as did the Berlin Wall. North Korea is starving to death ...

(8 pages) 4179 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Riches": A representation of Americans' desperation

since its onset. Many varied examples class structure exist. The governmental system of the United Soviet Socialist Republics resulted in two significantly distinctive layers, the oligarchy and the w ... f a society in which the gap between classes becomes too extreme. Americans watched in awe when the Soviet socialist system rapidly collapsed after its institutions became corrupt with deceit and gree ...

(19 pages) 60 0 4.5 May/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Nationalism

d War Two the most powerful force to occupy Eastern Europe since the Habsburg dynasty, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, took control. By doing so Stalin suspended the history of this region. ... about more accurate nation-states in which the state more closely matches a given nation. As the Soviet rule of the Eastern Block was repressive there was no recognition of historical goals, but wh ...

(39 pages) 85 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Causes And Effects Of Nuclear Weapons

ped its first atomic bomb. Though most believe that it started after the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were no longer allies after World War II.Causes of Cold War After ... Cold War After World War II one must examine the motives of both the United States and the Soviet Union. Stalin's number one goal was to rebuild his weakened nation. Russia had by far lost th ...

(7 pages) 61 0 5.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers