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Communism In Russian History - Foreign Affairs
Russia was for many centuries separated, geographically and politically, from the development of Western civilization and culture, and thus came late into what, for most of Europe, would be called the modern age.1 But the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, witnessing as they did an extensive overcoming of these earlier barriers, permitted a very considerable progress in the modernization of Russian society.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/1990-12-01/communism-russian-history
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From Empire to Communism - Russiapedia Russian History
Rise of the BolsheviksBy the time Nicholas II came to power in 1894, Russias growing industrialisation had produced a revolutionary socialist movement that was growing in strength.
http://russiapedia.rt.com/russian-history/communism-the-beginning
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Why Russian Still Don't Hate Communism
Last week Russia's Public Opinion Foundation released the results of a survey in which the respondents were asked to share their views of life in the former Soviet Union. Almost two-thirds of those interviewed viewed communism in a favorable light.
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-russians-still-dont-hate-communism-9294
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Modern Face of Russian Communism - Russia Beyond the Headlines
More than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian communists hope to return to power.
http://rbth.com/politics/2013/11/25/modern_face_of_russian_communism_32023.html
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The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin's vaunted "stability" has turned into spoliation. The methods he used to fix the corrupt, dysfunctional post-Soviet state have produced yet another corrupt, dysfunctional state-and unfortunately, there is no end to it in sight.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/resistible-rise-vladimir-putin
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The Surprising Resurgence of Russia As A Great Power - Huffington Post
In a world full of surprises - the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the weakness in the Chinese economy, the battles within the European Union, the making of the Iran deal, the slide in the American stock market - one of the greatest surprises of all has been the sudden rebirth of Russian power under Vladimir Putin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-adelman/the-surprising-resurgence_b_8104486.html
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union - 1989-1992 - Milestones - Office of the Historian
After his inauguration in January 1989, George H.W. Bush did not automatically follow the policy of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, in dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. Instead, he ordered a strategic policy re-evaluation in order to establish his own plan and methods for dealing with the Soviet Union and arms control.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union
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Fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War - History
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union
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Cold War Museum - Fall of the Soviet Union
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp
