Post Soviet States Chapter Summaries

Saukko really opened my eyes to the reality of what is happening on earth. I’ve always heard many people speak about the environment and how it is deteriorating, but I have never seen exactly why. This essay gave me great insight to the reality of it.

Soviet Union also called the USSR, emerged from World War I as one of the most powerful nations in the world. For 3 decades Joseph Stalin was in control and changed Soviet Union as a world superpower. After the 1920s they were becoming one of the most feared nations. There were many marks the Soviet Union did during the 20th century, but the textbooks should emphasize on economy/geography, militarism, and Joseph Stalin.

Discuss the declining birthrate in Russia and other countries in the region. What do you think the impact of this decline can have on neighboring countries and regions? Are similar declines happening elsewhere? The declining birthrate is seen all throughout Russia and neighboring countries. A lot is due to many choosing to have less children and also the high mortality rate of younger men. It seems that Europe and the United States are also seeing a decline in the birthrate, but not as bad as

The first feature “Basic feature of Post-War Soviet outlook” in which Kennan believed that the Soviet Union has international intentions he describes as “capitalist encirclement”. Kennan mentions that socialist centers will draw countries that are in favor of socialism and capitalist centers will draw countries that are in favor of capitalism. Kennan says “Battle between these two centers for command of world economy will decide fate of capitalism and of communism in entire world" (Kennan 1946). He believes the USSR is using any opportunity to gain strength and did not want to co-exist with a capitalist world. Capitalism and Communism are opposed to one another to the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, after 69 years if being a country, has done a gaggle of things. From space achievements to putting the most funding into their military than any other country at the time, these events all deserve to be remembered in Soviet Union textbooks. However, there are three things that must be in those Soviet textbooks which would be geographic expansion, military strength, and their Olympic values. All of these show that communism was capable of producing greatness and nationalism in their people. Geographic expansion should be included in Soviet Union textbooks because it shows the determination of their country, their leaders need to protect their country, and it shows their ideals.

In 1990, the fall of the communist regime affected the region. This fall changed the demographics of the region and somehow by 2016 it changed not only the landscape but the population as well. This change took place on the macro level and it also affected the micro level. Statistics show that the live birth ratio dropped throughout the years, that only 7,569 babies were born in 2016 versus 6,464 deaths. These numbers show that this group is headed for extinction. As social workers, an intervention is needed to ensure the continuation of this group of people. Studies are taking at present time to find out the cause and effect of this drastic change of population.

Document B informs about that economical and social improvement of the Soviet union, which allows people to look at positive affects of the Soviet Union. In the literacy rate category of document B, Soviet Union had 25% literacy rate in 1915 and 99% literacy rate in 1980. This shows an enormous improvement in education. This also serves as an example that the formation of Soviet Union did not result in a complete negative outcome. Document B also states that in 1980 Soviet Union was the first or second in the world in the production of steel, cotton, wheat, sugar, aluminium, gold and oil. This shows a huge economical advancement both locally and internationally. The area category of the document also states that Soviet Union had 8649000 mi.² of land which portrays how big it actually was. Using that information, Soviet Union’s influence can be found. Therefore it is very important to include this information in textbook because it shows the growth of countries during the Soviets

The Soviet Union was one of the largest countries in the world.the soviet union had a total of twenty-nine republics. Many people think that because you don’t have the most have states or republics that the country isn’t as big (doc. b). The soviet union had a total of eighty million six hundred forty nine thousand square miles(doc. b). That’s enough to fit two Americas.

To begin with, this book educated the reader about the past. Everyone in the Soviet Union looked up to the leader, Stalin, even though he wasn’t a good leader at all. He caused many problems for the citizens including uncomfortable living conditions. This book educates the reader by showing that back then even when people were treated badly, they still had to look up to their leader even though he was the cause of all

as a result of industrial decline in profitability. Furthermore, she illustrates how there will be an increase in environmental pollution and damages to the world, and scarcities in resources due to abnormal climate change in relation to the profitability of natural resource industries such as agriculture and so forth.

The first nation that he bring up is China. He talks about how China was thriving even though there were many outside forces trying to bother them, all the while not being a part of the U.N. Then, he talks about how only a few decades after devastating twin earthquakes, they had become, “... a nuclear power, an economic heavyweight, a military juggernaut… and a political force…” He continues on talking about China and saying that with China's explosiveness into power, they have reached their economical potential. Later on in the book however, he talks about Africa and how it may end up declining, but could also end up rising.

What are the main points of this reading (focus on concepts, ideas, and theme, not on individual facts)? Chapter 26 is about the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The war started because there were many different ideas of how the postwar should be and the different ways to achieve these new goals. The Cold War was a fight that was also about Communism and preventing the Soviet Union from spreading their empire East. The Soviet Union was communist and under the lead of Joseph Stalin they took over the West side of Europe while the capitalist United States Controlled the East side of Europe. The west allies created NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which included the United States, Canada, and 10 West European countries. The creation of NATO prevented the Cold War from becoming a nuclear hot war and instead an economic and military battle. The Soviet Union and the United States both fought over Belgium and Korea. Korea was a battle that showed just how powerful

In the 1940s, the Cold War Era emerged in which the world had to choose between democracy and communism. Winston Churchill’s famous speech about the “Iron Curtain” divided Eastern and Western Europe and encouraged the resistance and containment of communism. Americans’ fear, doubt, and conflict with communism intensified when McCarthy accused them of being communists without evidence. This threat, whether real or imagined, profoundly impacted Americans which prompted the hunt for communists.

- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, according to which Russia ceded large tracts of land to Germany;

Russia, officially known as the Russian Federation, has a total area of 17,098,242 sq km (“The World Factbook”) and is the largest country in the world. It is about 1.8 times the size of the United States (“The World Factbook”). Most of Russia is either large stretches of plains or areas with a lot of forests and mountains, with the exception of the Siberian Tundra. It is difficult to perfectly describe Russia’s climate because of it’s large size. However, in general, the country only has two seasons, summer and winter. In the summer they have very warm, continental weather and they have very harsh winters with a lot of snow. Russia is plentiful in natural resources. They are particularly