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    Gain of Prestige The Soviet Union was already setting up a unique standard of gender roles and gender equality, so the reinforced emphasis on fertility created an interesting return to traditional gender stereotypes. Despite the resurgence of the traditional ideal, the 1936 Decree was able to emphasize motherhood and nurturing without limiting women to the more feminine role. Instead, what occurred was the “super heroine” role, where the women’s maternity and industrial capital were both valued

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    and oppressive dictators in history, Joseph Stalin’s efforts to industrialise the Soviet Union were the most transformative period in Soviet History to a large extent. From 1928, Stalin’s absolute rule influenced the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. During his authority, Stalin believed the method to reform the Soviet Union was complete a forceful fist, and instituted his ‘revolution from above’ on the Soviet citizens. His dramatic changes of culture led to a reformed nationalism of Russia

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    The United States and the Soviet Union operated as associates and fought against the Nazi regime during World War II, however, the merger did not last long and ultimately became the Cold War. Americans had for some time been careful about Soviet socialism and worried about Russian pioneer Joseph Stalin 's overbearing, ruthless guideline of his own nation. As far as concerns them, the Soviets loathed the Americans ' decades-long refusal to regard the USSR as a real part of the universal group and

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    have command economies and the Soviet Union and China used to have one. In the past, many countries including the Soviet Union attempted to implement command economies that would later fail. As a result, most of the current countries using them are beginning to make reforms to leave their command economies behind, like Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost, or political transparency, and perestroika, also known as economic restructuring, in the 1980’s (Dewdney). The Soviet Union officially collapsed in December

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    Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, former Soviet republics have been forced to undertake the harrowing task of achieving stability for their citizens and developing their own identities independent from the former hegemon. Some, such as Poland, have been successful in this regard, while others, such as Georgia, have been less fortunate. For Ukraine, a vast agricultural country with centuries-old ties to Russia, answers to the questions of stability and identity have been uncertain

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    Rosenwald Professor Course Date Reigniting the Soviet Union Introduction The Soviet Union was a socialist state located on the Eurasian continent, which existed from 1922 to 1991. It was a conglomeration of a number of subnational Soviet republics with its government and economy centralized. The Soviet Union was based on a one-party system under the governorship of the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital. Since the decline of the Soviet Union, Russia has been on the forefront seeking to bring

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    In December of 1991, the world was shocked, of once seeing a super power that was dominating the world beside the United State of America. Moreover, The Soviet Union sudden collapse, which was composed of fifteen countries, exposed the downfall of the political and economic rule of Communism, which was put in place by the Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917. Many westerners predicted and or were happy that the Communistic ruled country finally saw it’s ending, which left only one dominate nation

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    The Soviet Union [8], officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR[9], Russian: СССР) also known unofficially as Russia[10][11], was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple equal national Soviet republics,[a] its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Russian

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    disunited provisional government. The official declaration of the termination of the Soviet Union was December 26 1991; this collapse was addressed by the west as the defeat of communism, and the end of the Cold War. To understand how and why this previously prosperous nation came to fall it is important to look at the major factors contributing to this disarray. I will examine the economic and ethnic problems the Soviet Union faced, as well as the problems with those in power. After the Bolshevik Revolution

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    Soviet Union Failures

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    Since the fall of the Soviet Union, a multitude of factors has been attributed as the cause of its disintegration, including, but not limited to: a failing economy, political fracturing, and ethnic cleavages. In this paper I will argue that the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted from a combination of variables beginning with Gorbachev’s economic and social reform policies. These reforms brought to light the internal political factions in Soviet leadership thus leading to the exploitation of

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