Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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College scouts were not the only one to notice Bausano as a high school phenom, a Russia, wrestler coach who had defected from the USSR also recognized potential in Bausane...
Tatyanna Mamonova a writes that the Soviet government has made significant steps to ensure pay equity between men and women in the workforce, a reform that is called for in almost all the other essays. What feminists in the USSR are greatly concerned about, we learn, is the lack of accessibility of birth control, leading to a situation where it is not unusual for a Soviet women to have fourteen abortions in her lifetime...
...state capitalism, communist countries must oppress their own workers in order to compete with capitalist nations. The Soviet Union had followed this path away from genuine socialism since Fenin's death and Itotsky's flight from Stalin, and Carr's evidence makes plain the price Spain paid for the USSR's actions...
...Spain was sacrificed, as Carr writes, to no avail Both the USSR and the West were busy worrying about Hitler, and outside of the usual declamations neither helped the Spanish...
Soon enough, the front began to disintegrate. Charges were made of unfair distribution of arms which short changed anarchist militia units. The Trotskyites and other groups opposed the conservative economic policies of the regime, and small military clashes were reported. As Stalin's purges got underway in the USSR, the Spanish government began to harass, threaten and even assassinate members of the left revolutionary groups...