Article: Was the collapse of the USSR entirely unforeseen? (Contemporary Perspectives).

Article: Soviet tells plans for economic, political change
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 6, 1988 ;     281 words ......including Western capitalism - hold valuable lessons for the Soviet Union. In a clear signal that the leadership reshuffle last...Medvedev outlined a program of radical economic and political change. He implicitly but firmly rejected arguments by his predecessor...uphold the long-standing ...

Article: Attitudes toward individual responsibility and political reform in the former Soviet Union.
American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......days of the former Soviet Union, Ellen Mickiewicz...on attitudes toward political change and support for individual...represent the former Soviet Union, they reported the...took into account Soviet political history. Rather, they...

Article: The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the International Monetary Fund)
The Economist (US);  August 3, 1991 ;     700+ words ...The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as a neo-imperialist...meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International Monetary...the biggest opponent of granting the Soviet Union full membership. it argues that associate...

Article: The U.S.S.R., on the Bright Side;On TBS, a Relentlessly Positive `Portrait of the Soviet Union'
The Washington Post;  March 19, 1988 ;     700+ words ......to unload? Or what? "Portrait of the Soviet Union," the seven-hour documentary that media...Binky and Biff at Camp Whitewash. The Soviet Union is "one of the most extraordinary countries...dream that is still being dreamt. The Soviet Union, a mighty union!" Everywhere there are...

Article: CRISIS IN THE SOVIET UNION
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 26, 1991 ;     621 words ......UPHEAVAL No letup: Changes sweeping the Soviet Union continued unabated as the republic of...pre-revolutionary Russian flag will replace the Soviet Union's red flag with hammer and sickle throughout...changes are happening so fast in the Soviet Union that the unraveling of that ...

Article: Understanding political change in post-Soviet societies: A further commentary on Finifter and Mickiewicz. (response to Ada W. Finifter, American Political Science Review, vol. 90, p. 138, March 1996)
American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The rapid disintegration of the...implied sudden and rapid social and political change, the underlying explanations for...change taking place in the former Soviet Union, we should expect these data to reveal...understanding the collapse ...

Article: FCC Allows Increased Phone Service to Soviet Union
The Washington Post;  August 22, 1991 ;     700+ words ......of snarled telephone traffic to the Soviet Union, the Federal Communications Commission...service between the United States and the Soviet Union. The FCC action will allow American...the major international carrier in the Soviet Union, and IDB Telecommunications Services...

Article: A friend in need. (China's economic assistance to the Soviet Union)
The Economist (US);  March 23, 1991 ;     700+ words ......and Soviet experts; 31 years ago the Soviet Union ended its aid, withdrew its experts...every one of today's leaders in the Soviet Union and China. Yet on March 14th China...poorest in the world, agreed to give the Soviet Union a favourable commodity loan worth some...

Article: While the going is good. (emigration from Soviet Union to United States) (Europe)
The Economist (US);  March 10, 1990 ;     517 words ......people seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States, plucked at random...architect from Baku, in Azerbaijan. The Soviet Union is suffering from a brain drain. As...the best educated and the people the Soviet Union can least afford to lose. More than...

Article: Sovieticus. (American views of Soviet Union)
The Nation;  June 13, 1987 ;     700+ words ......readers that the Soviet Union will be a totalitarian...Denying that the Soviet Union can change for...allcountries political change is generated...dynamics in the Soviet Union have usually...relatively benign political experience. It...change in the Soviet ...

Article: Shoe on the other foot. (Soviet Union and the Kuwait-Iraq Conflict, 1990) (Europe)
The Economist (US);  August 18, 1990 ;     578 words ......General Assembly. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's long-lasting foreign minister, was...staunch supporter of the UN than the Soviet Union, even though the Security Council has...Mikhail Gorbachev has realised that the Soviet Union cannot survive on military power alone...

Article: SOVIET UNION
Young Students Learning Library;      237 words ...00-00-0000 The Soviet Union was once the largest country in...Russian Revolution in 1917. The Soviet Union was established in 1922 with Vladimir...head of a Communist government. The Soviet Union was a federation of 15 republics...

Article: A picture of failure. (Soviet Union's economic crisis) (The Economist: A Survey of Perestroika)
The Economist (US);  April 28, 1990 ;     700+ words ......through Eastern Europe last year, was the Soviet Union's deepening economic crisis. Measuring...lack of statistics-anything but. The Soviet Union undoubtedly leads the world in the number...According to everybody's numbers, the Soviet Union's aggregate growth rate has been slowing...

Article: AT ISSUE: SHOULD THE SOVIET UNION BE ADMITTED TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT)
Post-Tribune (IN);  January 7, 1990 ;     504 words ......item on same page: AT ISSUE: SHOULD THE SOVIET UNION BE ADMITTED TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT...political and economic changes in the Soviet Union and the Uruguay Round of multilateral...are proceeding simultaneously. The Soviet Union is seeking to join the General Agreement...