The Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Diplomacy and United States Aggression The Cuban missile crisis brings to mind visions of a great triumph over the Soviet Union and the defusing of an all-out nuclear war. However‚ this "crisis" was not so much the product of true Soviet advances towards war as much as it was a series of misinterpretations and miscommunications between the United States and Soviet governments that culminated in excessive aggression by the U.S. and unnecessary escalation of tensions
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Book review Soviet Fates and Lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen As Stephen Cohen states in the introduction‚ Soviet Fates and lost alternatives was written out of a personal fascination for alternative roads that ’could have been’ the path of history. Cohen’s approach is indeed personal as he tries to show that the communist party consisted (and always has consisted) of people‚ and not out of a fixed idea. People shape history‚ not economical- political- or other crises. And to every person
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War where it’s Capitalism vs Communism. This was not the case in practice because the truth is that Sino-Soviet relations were cold and bitter. Joseph Stalin‚ the leader of the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong‚ the leader of China were distant despite having the same ideology. The same can be said with Stalin’s successor‚ Nikita Khrushchev‚ and the successor of Khrushchev‚ Leonid Brezhnev. Sino-Soviet relations didn’t know better days until the 1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping became leaders
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Stalinism. It is precisely during these times of turmoil that Russian Avant-garde flourished. It marked a clear break from the traditional naturalist theatre and moved towards a new and unprecedented development that came to be known as “leftist art.” The Soviet historian Vadim Kozhinov wrote in an article published in 1976‚ that Russian Avant-garde was closely associated with Russian Marxist aesthetics. This “leftist art‚” however‚ was not necessarily Marxist from the onset. The end of the nineteenth
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Throughout the Cold War‚ Soviet culture was something feared by nations outside the Iron Curtain‚ but embraced by those inside it. This was likely correlated with communism‚ and many nations were forced to take upon the Soviet way of life. In Central Asian countries especially‚ Soviet control allowed Soviet culture to spread and endanger traditional culture. It all began with Bolshevik forces conquering the region of Central Asia‚ which in the modern day consists of: Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan
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Ben Fielder 18 November 2010 Soviet Intervention on Afghanistan When someone intervenes in your life‚ it’s usually to project their beliefs onto you and force you to stop a destructive behavior. During the Cold War‚ the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan‚ not to stop a destructive behavior‚ but to project their own wants and needs (for the oil and other resources) onto Afghan culture. Forcing them to submit to foreign rule‚ the people of Afghanistan fought back to protect their land‚ as
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The Soviet and Chinese governments while both Communist served the needs of different classes of people. Both of the Governments were extremely repressive to their citizens and they were responsible for the death of millions of its citizens. Both nations manufactured a form of cult around their leaders that to this day is still prevalent in both nations. The Russian revolution began in 1905 when unarmed civilian marched towards Czar Nicolas II Winter Palace. Bloody Sunday as it is called was January
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The Soviet-Afghan War During the Cold War many countries‚ especially developing countries‚ were caught in between two super powers separate ideologies. The United States did everything it could to promote democracy during the Cold War and the Soviet Union attempted to promote communism. Both the US and USSR interfered in many different nations’ political affairs in an attempt to gain allies and influence in all areas of the world. In one such corner‚ the seemingly insignificant country of
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Catch up The nature of the source This is a Soviet propaganda poster from the 1930’s. In this poster we can see‚ in the top half‚ a hand holding the first five-year plan which objectives were industrialization and collectivization of farms which lead to the destruction of the kulaks as a class. There is also a capitalist‚ a person who uses their wealth to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism which is an economic and political system
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Montgomery The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan On April of 1978‚ the Afghan central government was just overthrown their own leader‚ Mohammad Duad Khan. A group of military officials on a quest for power led by Nur Mohammad Taraki‚ a distinct military general. To replace Duad Khan‚ two Marxist political groups fill in. The Khalq‚ or the people’s political group‚ and the Parcham‚ the Banner Party. “The new government‚ which had little popular support‚ forged close ties with the Soviet Union…”(Britannica
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