Post-Soviet states

explanations to the reasons for the Cold War starting are made up of the theories proposed by orthodox, revisionists and post-revisionists. Every theory shows an alternate perspective in how different political, monetary and military uses initiated the Cold War. The Cold War was the political, social, monetary and war-ready battle between communism and capitalism and focused mainly on the Soviet Union and the USA and their allies from roughly 1947 to 1991. The Cold

introduce the topic of “inherited residential segregation patterns” (Leetmaa) among ethnic groups in post-communist Tartu, Estonia within the context of immigration policies implemented during the Soviet communist era. Using two dimensions – “preferences and segregation –ethnicity and neighbor affluence” (Leetmaa ,163), the study explores the possible causes of residential segregation in post-Soviet Tartu and its effects on residential preferences shaped by liberal market forces and national identity

The wartime relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States, tenuously compromised and founded upon the necessity of the immediate pragmatism instigated by Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa, was doomed to inevitably disintegrate once both parties ceased to confront a common belligerent. There are two significant factors within the breakdown of United States – Soviet relations following World War II. First is the ideological incongruence within the communist – capitalist dichotomy. Evangelical

the 1960’s and 70’s have put the blame for the war on the USA. However, I believe the ones to have the best case are the post-revisionists, who don’t put the blame on either side but argue the war was mainly caused by a combination of misunderstandings and fear. Orthodox historians, like Thomas A. Bailey, argue the USSR was completely responsible for the Cold war. They blame soviet expansionism and its aggressive foreign policy in the immediate years after the Second World War for the increase in tensions

Germany’s surrender in 1945, the country fell into another depression greater than the last. Germany as a whole was divided into two separate sectors. West Germany saw an immediate improvement with post-war reconstruction and an economic boom. East Germany did not see the same treatment and remained in a state of depression due to its inability to establish a basic plan for its economic growth. This difference in West and

no direct military campaigns between the United States and Soviet Union. However, billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost. The United States emerged as the greatest power from World War 2. (Give Me Liberty 896) The country boasted about having the most powerful navy and air force. The United states accounted for about half of the world’s manufacturing capacity, which it alone created the atomic bomb. Capitalism is superior to the Soviets idea of Communism because the Americans idea of

of the rubble of World War II, the United States emerged as a true superpower. Only with their first detonation on 29 August 1949, did the Soviets regain their status as a superpower. This provided the traditional or orthodox interpretation nuclear deterrence by major writers such as Arthur Schlesinger, Herbert Feis and Louis Halle. However, the Berlin Blockade of 1948 served as the impetus of incorporating nuclear weapons into the overall United States war planning. It has been argued that breakdown

The development of the Eurasian Economic Union has been lengthy and a complicated process. The first evidence of the attempts to emulate the EU can be traced back to the post-Soviet Economic Union back in 1993. This project was driven by post-Soviet Russia, as an attempt to reengage with the CIS member-states as a reaction to criticism and growing domestic discontent with its role in the “near abroad”. Thus the 1993 treaty adopted an institutional framework similar the one of the EU, which gave

orthodox, revisionist, and post-revisionists. Now, while these groups help us better understand where historians belong, they more often than not exist on the penumbra of the categories, fading into other groups at times. However, historian Matthew Evangelista’s

Failure of Softer Power The history of the Soviet Union's actions shows the slow erosion of the state's soft power. Post-World War Two, the Soviet state had a great deal of soft power. Part of the reason was that many prominent communists had led the resistance against fascism, and many people believed that communism was the way of the future (who caused the cold war to end). However, the first undercut came with de-Stalinization in 1956 with exposure of Stalin's crimes- the Great Terror, hard labor