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History of the Cold War/Peaceful Coexistence. III. 1968-1991.
Prolonged political stagnation along with exceedingly low living standards, high degrees of waste and totalitarian state brutality with draconian legislation were characteristic of conditions in the eastern bloc nations, while the armed stalemate balance of terror characterised international relations between the western and eastern bloc of nations, with the underlying threat of mutual assured destruction…
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History of the Cold War. II. 1947-1968.
The failure of the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers was a key postwar event in view of the position taken by the Soviet negotiators was thoroughly unambiguous: Stalin refused to move toward a definitive settlement in Europe, which could have partly been in reaction to the pronouncement of the Truman Doctrine two days after the…
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History of the Cold War. I. 1945-1947.
The end of the Second World War left Great Britain as no longer being a great power while it was practically bankrupt at the end of the war, and then increasingly less powerful during the process of decolonization that followed. The Soviet Union suffered heavier losses than any other country in the war, as they…
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History of the Second World War. IV.
Nazi Germany faced additional military setbacks on the southern front, until this advance was stalled until the end of the war. The Italians had been a liability that weakened the German strategic war effort, which only worsen. General Pietro Badoglio began armistice negotiations with the British and the Americans on 4 August 1943, as the…
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History of the Second World War. III.
The heaviest fighting of the war remained on the eastern front after the failure of a Blitzkrieg in Russia, which spared England from any threat of invasion, and the resistance movements throughout Europe was given fresh encouragement. The Russians had lost three million prisoners in 1941, and the USSR lost 63 percent of its coal…
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History of the Second World War. II.
Operation Sea Lion had called for thirteen divisions, constituting 160,000 troops, to land between Folkestone and Brighton, who would require a minimum 2,500 tons of supplies transported by two hundred transport vessels every day for several weeks, while maintaining a supply line and consistently resisting naval and aerial interdiction that could be rapidly deployed…
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History of the Second World War. I.
British political decisionmakers eventually suspected that Germany would not cease its aggression, but could do little more than issue an ultimatum, advising Germany that Poland would receive British assistance if Hitler invaded. Nevertheless, Hitler invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and forced a collapse in less than a month using a method of warfare known…
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History of Russia and the Soviet Union. 1924-1941.
As Lenin’s health deteriorated and correspondingly spent increasingly less time dealing with government matters, he appointed Stalin as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on 3 April 1922, which was an organizational position involving engaging in administrative tasks, such as setting agendas, directing meetings, and eventually appointing new party leaders.…
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History of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its Consequences. II. 1917-1924.
The Bolsheviks had to face the difficulties of reorganising a government, and the new instruments of administration were created, which included reinstituting some of the features of the tsarist regime, such as eliminating the free press on 7 November through shutting down the entire “bourgeois” press in Petrograd, and restoring press censorship on 17 November…