Nearly a thousand years ago, Moldova was populated by a Romanian-speaking people, descended from Romans, who intermarried with the indigenous Dacians. A principality was established in the territory in the fourteenth century, but it did not last long. Moldova then became a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, which lost parts of it to the Russian Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

The aim of this paper is to explore the reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution of one group of critics from the left: those who saw it as ushering in a new form of capitalism. The controversy over state capitalism had both theoretical and practical significance. At the analytical level it presented an important test of Marx’s conception of historical materialism, which had been formulated in a l...

In this article I give some impressions of the actual treatment of people in the Soviet Union in health and in disease, basing it to a fair degree on notes made during a visit to Russia in the late summer of I939. In Britain we are justly proud of the farreaching developments in the prevention and treatment of disease which have taken place in the last I50 years. The development of industry and...

A revolutionary approach to identifying pervasive thrust areas (and their relationships) in large textual databases was applied to a compendium of assessments of applied research areas in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) generated by the Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center (FASAC). Related thrust areas were combined to yield the following major thrust groupings: IONOSPHERIC HEATING/ MODIFIC...

Richard F. Staar, ‘Soviet Union’, in Peter F. Duignan and Alvin Rabushka, eds., The United States in the 1980s (Hoover Institute Press, 1980). 65 See in particular Sir William Hayter, Russia and the World (Taplinger, 1970). 66 Raymond L. Garthoff, ‘Soviet Views of the Interrelation of Diplomacy and Military Strategy’, Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1979. 67 During World War II, both the Unit...

The international campaign against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union spanned a period of 20 years. It started roughly in the beginning of the 1970s when the Moscow-based dissident Vladimir Bukovsky sent the first documentation to the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and ended in 1991 when the same WPA sent a mission to the Soviet Union to investigate whether the political...

In the former Soviet Union during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era, the KGB used its forensic psychiatric institutions to brand, arbitrarily and for political reasons, large numbers of political dissidents as suffering from “schizophrenia” and “paranoid psychosis,” and then incarcerated them for long periods in “special psychiatric hospitals.” In 1976, the Soviet Union was severely censured on this ...

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. cons...

I would like to discuss the monetary and banking situation in my country. The last few years have witnessed quite a number of sweeping changes in the Soviet economy. These changes, including the decentralization of decision making, have substantially contributed to inflationary pressure. According to estimates by the State Statistical Bureau, inflation was 7% percent last year. This figure incl...

By utilizing biomedical instrumentation from other nations, and by designing and fabricating instrumentation in several institutes under the control of the Medical Industries Ministry and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences, the Soviet Union has attempted to a bridge a 20 to 30-year technology gap. The lack of interagency cooperation and sophisticated manufacturing capability, combined wit...