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...Slavs, Muslims and Turkish peoples. During their reign, the Bolsheviks addressed the concerns of such a multi-ethnic state, trying various methods to stay atop their empire. At one point, they used a divide-and-conquer approach that led them to create 10,000 different governmental subdivisions within the USSR in order to accommodate--and separate--each ethnic group...
...Slavs, Muslims and Turkish peoples. During their reign, the Bolsheviks addressed the concerns of such a multi-ethnic state, trying various methods to stay atop their empire. At one point, they used a divide-and-conquer approach that led them to create 10,000 different governmental subdivisions within the USSR in order to accommodate--and separate--each ethnic group...
...nuclear world order, a legitimate contender for the geopolitical throne. In 2003, go the national-security nabobs, China will have a new and improved generation of nuclear weapons, all thanks to Bill Clinton, Loral and Wen Ho Lee. And all the Pentagon will have to do is cross out USSR and write in PRC -- and aim everything in the arsenal a little to the right...
Seven years ago the fall of the USSR and the subsequent opening of Soviet archives brought hard facts to the formerly-speculative field of Cold War studies...
...Soviets found to their chagrin that "reform communism" is an oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...