Post-Soviet states

Cold War Inevitable? With the end of World War II (WWII) in 1945 began the Cold War, an international conflict that lasted from 1947–1991 and plagued nations across the globe. As the post-war negotiations were deliberated by three of the strongest world powers, the United States (US), Britain, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), disagreements arose that created tension between the US and the USSR and ultimately instigated the infamous “Fifty Years War” (Crockatt 64). But was this conflict

The Soviet nationalities policy, implemented in the initial stage of the Bolshevik government, was "national in form and socialist in content." The Soviets’ ultimate goal was the fashioning of their citizens holding allegiance to the Soviet Union, while also maintaining a secondary identity as a member of a constituent nationality. The nationality policy drove to the core of the entire Soviet enterprise, as it played a central role in the lives of everyday Soviet people, serving different functions

of World War 2, Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met in Russia and discussed post-war policies, which became known as the Yalta Conference. They all agreed that in the post-war world, they would commit to democratic elections in the new independent states that had been freed from Nazi occupation. However, distrust started to begin, as Stalin started to assert their influence over some of the newly independent European states, claiming it was important to create a buffer zone between Russia and Germany

war between The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, often abbreviated as USSR. It was a “cold war” because neither side actually took direct military action against the other. Although it was a “cold war” this did not mean it was not intense, in fact it was probably one of the most intense wars in modern history. There are many explanations of why the Cold War was started but there is a widely accepted consensus that both The United States and the USSR wanted to

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

World War Two. The United States viewed the Soviet Union as an enemy against a capitalist economic structure. Traditionalist thinkers are an extension of the realist school of thought, which viewed the Soviet Union as a villain and the United States as the protector of the world. Each U.S. policy was used as a defensive nature against the Soviet Union. In the revisionist view, however, the Cold War tension was held to be United States’ responsibility because the United States wanted to spread its

and depleted gold supplies. The United States having remained virtually untouched by the destruction had emerged from World War II stronger than ever before both an industrial economic, and military powerhouse. The Soviet Union though also suffering from the wounds of the war began to establish pro-Soviet communist governments in the Eastern European countries

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

Hiroshima was not a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post Second-World War era rather than a strictly military measure designated to force Japan’s unconditional surrender. I don’t believe it is in America’s nature to not only bomb a city, but to completely level it, just to intimidate an entirely different country. America’s goal was the total and utter surrender of Japan. Not to intimidate Soviet Union. Yes, America had plan many tactical strategies to deal

earlier, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1991 was, as historian George Herring asserted, “an event as momentous in its ramifications as it was anticlimactic in its occurrence.” Soviet Premier Gorbachev’s dual policies of glasnost and perestroika had relaxed central control and encouraged self-sufficiency among the republics of Eastern Europe, but it also revealed the underlying economic weakness of the Soviet system. The collapse of the Soviet Union sent shockwaves through a