Browsing by Subject "Soviet Union"
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(2020-03-17)This dissertation is a comparative study of ethnic German Mennonites and ethnic Germans of other faiths from Chortitza, their experiences during World War II, and their immigration between 1947 and 1957. This research ...
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(2012-02-14)At the start of the George H.W. Bush administration, American involvement in El Salvador‘s civil war, one of the last Cold War battlegrounds, had disappeared from the foreign policy agenda. However, two events in November ...
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(1991)George Frost Kennan, like the Russian history and culture to which he has dedicated over sixty years of study, is often viewed as an enigma of sorts. Once described as "impossibly learned yet commonsensical, stern in his ...
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(2014-04-24)On April 20 1967, the Carmen-Suite ballet, starring Maya Plisetskaya in the leading role, premiered in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Theatre. The production was immediately banned by the Soviet Ministry of Culture for perceived ...
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(2016-04-21)During the Second World War, Nazi and Soviet governments had distinctly different ideologies as well as different reasons for targeting the Soviet Union's German population for relocation. While the Soviets saw ethnic ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)During World War II, the United States extended $ 11 billion in aid to the Soviet Union - the equivalent of $ 75 billion today. Much has been written about the diplomacy surrounding the extension of Lend-Lease to the Soviet ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Many academics believed that among the charms of a centrally planned economy were its stability relative to chaotic market economies and its capacity for sustained growth. The Soviet Union was seen as proof that central ...