Eastern philosophy

1. Economic background (general/target) Our group decided to focus economic backgrounds of major four countries in the Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, and Poland. First, Ukraine has a population of 42.8 million with 1.4% of upper class. GDP of $370.8 billion with -6.8% growth rate and -0.2% 5-year compound annual growth rate. Ukraine has $8,668 per capita with 12.1% inflation rate and 7.7% unemployed rate. In 2014, Ukraine’s economy was heavily indebted. Coal mining and heavy industry

The Impact of Television on Democracy in Eastern Europe After the second World War , a large part of central Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union and was forced to adapt to the Communism ideology. While the year 1989 was a turning point that some effective revolution interrupted and the Soviet hegemony was destroyed, the demand for democracy and freedom was increased and people tried to find their ways to speak out. With the development of technology, mass media emerged to help address the problem

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. (Angela Merkel- Read more at: https:// www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/angelamerk416808.html?src=t_cold_war.) But the Cold war was between the Soviet Union and the United States and how once they was united and

Ziegelski1 In discussing the sentiments of the Soviet people after The Second World War, Elena Zubkova writes, “The various generations, their human losses mounting, virtually merged into one--the generation of victors--forming thereby a new mentality that united them in a shared community of problems, attitudes, wishes, and aspirations” (Zubkova 1998). In any other era, this “new mentality” may be suggestive of an outbreak of war. After all, it was a “new mentality” of nationalism among the people

For the third engaged activity, I decided to attend a lecture on April 24th by Martin Previsic, a professor at the University of Zagreb who specializes in Croatian history. Previsic’s lecture was titled “The Yugoslav Gulag: The Goli otok (Barren Island) Labor Camp, 1949-1956.” Previsic’s lecture revolved around the time period of the “Tito-Stalin split”, which was an era marked as being the end of mutual relations between the Soviet Union and the former country of Yugoslavia. The spit, initially

DISMANTLING OF THE SOVIET UNION Introduction The fall of the once might soviet union was as a result unwarranted succession of events. There is a likelihood of some arguing that a certain even led to the dismantling but this would be a fallacious assertion. Dismantling of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was one of the three strongest nations in the world. Between 1964 and 1982, the Soviet Union competed militarily with the world’s best. The Soviet Union and its system appeared impervious to rudimentary

its lack of recognition and size (Skordas). 1992 was an odd year; the Soviet Union had just collapsed and states in Eastern Europe were still deciding what they should do. One of these nations, Moldova, which broke away from the Soviet Union in 1989 had declared autonomy and sought to create a new state, free of Russian influence. This gave rise to Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country(Englund “Fears”) who waged a small civil war in order to gain their independence. This war lead

Berlin Blockade Berlin Wall: On August 13, 1961, the Soviet Union that controlled East Berlin (and East Germany) rolled out a wall of barbed wire overnight to separate their claims on East Berlin from the Allies that controlled west Berlin because they thought that the allies were damaging their communist regime in the East. The reason for this ‘overnight barricade’ was to keep the “Western fascists from undermining their city” . Families were broken apart and if you were at the wrong side of the

events leading up to the final match are what set the stage for a tension-filled game. The year was 1972, but the Cold War had stated in 1941 and was still continuing on as Munich prepared for it’s Olympics. The Soviet Union and its satellite states (Eastern Bloc) and the United States and its NATO allies (Western Bloc) were in a geopolitical dispute. “Cold War History.” History.com. The Western Bloc did not agree with Russia’s way of rule, communism, and their blood-thirsty ruler. This was the first

Eventually, there was an Iron Curtain descends in Europe, which separated Europe into eastern and western countries. The eastern sides were the Soviet’s allies with more dictatorship and communist countries.The western sides were the US’s allies with democratic capitalist countries. The USSR and the US didn’t trade or negotiate with each other, they became