During the last century or so, two dominant doctrines i.e. Capitalism and Socialism had been in a state of constant confrontation resulting in engaging the two Super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union in wars such as the Vietnam War and the Cold War. The Cold War that continued for several decades finally led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This article was an attempt to ...

MEDICAL JOURNAL Political dissent and "sluggish" schizophrenia in the Soviet Union "It is considered by some governments that if a person does not agree with the views of the state, his sanity must be called into question. Extensive documentation exists on the misuse of psychiatry and psychiatric drugs in the Soviet Union."' Amnesty International, Bloch and Reddaway, and the International Assoc...

this paper tries to test the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in former soviet :union: countries after their independence in 1991. it has become an article of faith in most economic and political circles that opening up the economy to international trade will produce substantial benefits in terms of greater consumer choice and higher living standards. higher productivity ...

Governor Crow has given us an excellent summary of the issues and options in controlling inflation. I will focus my remarks on the application of the points that he made to the case of the Soviet Union, which I do in part because I've thought more about the Soviet Union than about the inflation problems elsewhere in Eastern Europe, but also because I think that perhaps it is in the Soviet Union...

The purpose of this letter is to call attention to the availability of a technical report on the chronic radiation syndrome (CRS) which may be obtained from the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). Pursuant to facilitating communications between radiation scientists in the United States and the former Soviet Union, AFRRI and the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) have provided small ...

Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the USSR’s successor states have not made the smooth transition to liberal democracy that many in Europe and the United States had once expected. The Baltic states and most eastern European countries have transitioned to the status of “sustainable democracies,” but the rest of the Soviet Union’s successor states sit more along a continuum of auto...

a. Since World War II, the Soviet Union has represented the principal threat to the national security interests of the US. During this period, the military capability of the Soviet Armed Forces grew enormously. Starting in the later years of the 1980's, the international security environment has undergone rapid, fundamental, and revolutionary changes. The Soviet Union has disintegrated with the...

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...