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...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is not just a country, but an empire???the largest, and probably the last, in history...
...preliminary vote on Virginian Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence showed nine of the colonies in favor, two (South Carolina and Pennsylvania) opposed, New York abstaining and Delaware deadlocked. To decide such momentous business?cutting much of a continent and its 2.5 million inhabitants free from the British Empire???the Congress hoped for virtual unanimity. Anything less might poison the enterprise with disunity. Hence the delegates' anxiety on the morning of July...
...never had the stomach to be an empire???in fact, it can be argued that any democracy in which the voters must be sold periodically on the need to maintain a world role cannot possibly be an empire today. But the U.S. has legitimate quasi-imperial needs and obligations in the sense of helping to maintain (as distinct from dictating) stability in wide areas. How to do this in today's world is the dilemma behind the Middle East conflict...
FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE???A Russian's post-War regeneration...
FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE???First-rate Russian drama of a soul's regeneration...