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…is a declining one. Strategic geometry very useful in assessing the transition in these terms. Instead of Japan and the US balancing Russian military power, today Japan and the US act to balance Chinese military power. I will elaborate on this issue later, in my…

…. Moreover, wisdom on this score was soon beside the point, for it was Stalin who the Spanish were reassuring by placating the international bourgeoisie, once Russian aid began to flow in September 1936. Stalin was out to suppress any true, autonomous revolution…

…. In the United States he visited John Ericsson, the Swedish-American engineer who had developed the screw propeller for ships. In 1852, Alfred Nobel was asked to come back and work in the family enterprise which was booming because of its deliveries to the Russian…

…are people which are fearful of things foreign to them. Their views and actions are being depicted as a minor offense against the social order, when in fact they undermine the very fabric of Russian society. It also demeans the victim and breeds a cynicism…

…disassembled the factories of Poland and East Germany and rebuilt them on Russian soil. Part of his collectivization plan moved peasants and factories to the cities. The factory relocation created city slums in Russia and turned the buffer states of Poland and East…

…were wearing: The Mao suit, The Nehru jacket, The Russian fur. The problem with Kazakhstan is that during an almost centuries this country did not have a specific suit. Kazakhstan wore the Russian fur, even though it did not fit. Other difficulties…

…, that her son's death was instant and painless. At the end of his leave, Paul spends some time at a training camp near a group of Russian prisoners-of-war. Paul feels that the Russians are people just like him, not subhuman enemies, and wonders how war can make…

…launching a rocket. However, he had many insights into how rocket design could be improved. Although Tsiolkovsky did not work or contact scientists outside Russia, his influence on the Russian space program was immense. Every Russian engineer working on the space…

…"(Mather,266). The underlying reason the Atomic Bomb was used, says negative side, is need to 'flex our muscles' toward the Russians. This "diplomatic weapon" was supposedly used to intimidate the Soviet Union and "make Russia more manageable in Europe"(Mather…

…conceded some territory in the Congo to Germany. Second the 1908 Balkans crisis eventuated because of the collapse of the Ottoman [Turkish] Empire. Austria-Hungary annexed the provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbia was insensed and sought Russian assistance…