Autocracy a system of government in which a supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person 55. Ivan III(the Great) and Ivan IV(the Terrible) a Grand Prince of Moscow‚ was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death 56. Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire 57. Catherine the Great longest-ruling female leader of Russia 58. Serfdom the status of peasants under feudalism 59
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for Ikea: writes British design magazine Icon‚ ’most people would have no access to affordable contemporary design.’ The magazine even voted Ikea’s founder Ingvar Kamprad the most influential taste maker in the world today. As long as consumers from Moscow to Beijing and beyond keep striving to enter the middle class‚ there will be a need for Ikea. Think about it: What mass-market retailer has had more success globally? Not Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)‚which despite vast strengths has stumbled in Brazil
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The USSR and Stalin 1924-53 How successful was Stalin in solving Russia’s economic problems? What were Russia’s economic problems? Stalin believe rapid expansion of heavy industry was essential to deal with evident attach from west Industrial workers were the communists; greatest allies Peasants: enemies of socialism Industrial: Peasant ration Greater it was‚ greater communist state would be The Five Year Plans for industry Stalin = no economic experience Plans designed to overcome
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Many critics talked highly of the Soviet Union when the Olympic games were to be held in Moscow for the 1980 games. Saying that the Soviet Union “is a beacon of peace‚ democracy‚ and social progress.” (Doc 6) But when it came to what they Americans thought‚ it was far from that. Bob Matthias form the United States‚ once said “You just loved
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S. faced off against the best hockey team ever‚ The Soviet Union‚ in a time when these two countries did not get along. Days before the U.S. won this game President Jimmy Carter announced the U.S. boycott of the Summer Olympic Games that year in Moscow. The Soviets dominated the competition with approximately sixty countries not being represented. This outraged the athletes of America as they felt they had been stripped of a medal. Later on in 1984 the Soviet Union decided not to participate
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“To what extent did Willy Brandt’s ‘Ostpolitik’ change relations between East and West Germany?” The split between East and West Germany after World War Two resulted in a tumultuous and tense period of German history. Germans saw the construction of the Berlin Wall‚ economic boom in the West‚ dictatorship in the East and in this time the two zones became almost irreversibly divided. Soviet influence in the Eastern zone coupled with US control in the West meant a delicate state of affairs between
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1 "Ostpolitik as a source of intra-bloc tensions" by Dr. Oliver Bange‚ Mannheim University (Project "Ostpolitik and Détente") [Ostpolitik caused friction on a number of different levels – it sparked tensions within Willy Brand’s party‚ the SPD‚ parliament‚ the coalition cabinet‚ tensions with the Western allies‚ and even within the Eastern bloc. It is the latter two that this paper is devoted‚ arranging documents from various national archives around nine distinct but interconnected arguments
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The Marshall Plan was America’s principal plan for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the allied countries of Europe‚ and repelling communism after WWII. The Marshall Plan became a four year program that would cost the American people approximately $13 billion dollars before it ended in 1952. Although it’s impact on the Western countries was a promising one‚ its impact on the relationship between the two former allies the Unities States and the Soviet Union would mark an important
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III – Which are the largest city economies in the world and how might this change by 2025? This article updates an article published in our March 2007 UK Economic Outlook1 giving estimates for 2005 and projections to 2020 of the size of the largest 100 city economies in the world. The updated analysis and illustrative projections of GDP for different cities show how the GDP rankings of cities might change by 2025 taking into account the impact of the current economic downturn and the
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