Word: imperiale
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THESE FEATURES-- economic, political and cultural distortion--persist unabated in many Third World countries today. The primary imperial power and the method of domination have changed, but the result is much the same--these nations, although nominally independent, are still controlled from without. The United States has assumed the position...
Broadly speaking, Third World nationalism in the past two decades has tended in two seperate directions. Socialist revolutionaries in Vietnam and Ba, for example, have fought for national self' determination, but they have viewed their struggles as only one arena in a world-wide struggle. Authoritarian nationalism, on the other...
The expected revolutions either did not happen, or, as in Hungary and Bavaria, they failed. Lenin found himself in a position which neither he nor Marx had foreseen, a position as leader of the only socialist state in the world. He turned to the task of building a strong Russia...
LIKE OTHER imperial powers, Tsarist Russia was motivated by several factors as it expanded. Originally landlocked, Russia sought year-round ports with open access to trade routes. Mindful of the dangers of massive invasion after the Napoleonic conquest of Moscow, the Russians sought buffer states to protect their frontiers. They...
In a world already strongly dominated by imperial powers, the Soviets have reached out to make a new partition. They have abandoned their role as the champions of anti-imperialism in their rush for territory, hegemony, unequal trade agreements and strategic defense. Eastern Europe provides not only a wall of...