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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Soviets"”.
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Between two worlds: Americans and Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution
… on interaction between Americans and Russian Soviets during an era marked by both multidirectional migration and the increasing deployment of American power abroad. In the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Americans attempted to transform Russia through military occupation, …
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The Tories and the Soviets: the British conservative reaction to Russia, 1917-1927
<p>Historians have analyzed t he We s tern response to Soviet Russia from a number of vantage points. Surprisingly, however, the attitudes of one important political group have not been studied adequately. Historians have claimed frequently that British Conservatives were violently hostile toward …
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Negotiating Jewish victimhood at Majdanek: reluctant communists, political flux, and Nazi guilt
… death camp Majdanek were negotiated by Poles and Soviets during the immediate post-liberation period in Lublin from July to October, 1944. After liberating eastern Poland, the Soviets established the Polish Committee for National Liberation (PKWN [Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego]), the local …
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Economic Origins of the Cold War? An Examination of the Carryover Costs of World War Ii to the Soviet People
… identifies the carryover costs of WW II to the Soviets and examines how the burden of these costs was allocated. It further proposes a means of examining how the actual allocation of the carryover war costs might have changed had different economic policies been implemented in the immediate …
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POSTTRAUMATIC CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TRAUMA-CENTERED IDENTITY AND SELF-CONSISTENCY
… (n= 60 British) and collectivistic (n= 37 Soviets) cultures completed the Centrality of Events Scale, a self-consistency measure, and provided self-defining memories and self-cognitions. Trauma-centred identity was positively associated with posttraumatic symptoms in both cultural groups. …
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The Defence and Evacuation of the Kuban Bridgehead, January – October 1943
… into the Caucasus. In early February, the Soviets attempted to eliminate the German bridgehead through a combined amphibious and ground operation. The ground operation did not achieve any significant gain, and the main amphibious landing operation was a catastrophic failure, but a secondary …
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The gauntlet cast: Poland challenges the Soviet Union
… events challenge the Soviet Union; 3) how the Soviets have reacted to the events thus far; and 4) the prospects of soviet military intervention in the future.
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… and Soviet governments. Regardless of what the Soviets were doing as far as nuclear technology, SALT II had a fundamental weakness due to the internal debate in the United States government between the “hawks” and the “doves” on the issue.</p> <p>Divisions existed within the U.S. government over …
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The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence
… that he did pass sensitive information to the Soviets. He also succeeded in subverting American policy to favor Soviet interests over U.S. interests. White's activities in government service suggest that American government officials passed on vital government information to the Soviet Union …
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Three Attempts at Cold War Neutralization: Its Success in Austria and Laos and its Failure in Vietnam
… the weaker superpowers in each contest, the Soviets in Austria and the Americans in Laos, took very similar actions. They followed the same three-stage process from the outbreak of the dispute to its negotiated conclusion. This process failed, however, in Vietnam. In trying to explain why …
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Fearless and Fit: American Women of the Cold War
… they were not fit enough to compete with the Soviets. Both governments encouraged citizens to become physically fit. The American government concerned itself with soft' corporate men and physically unfit youth. The Soviet government continued to emphasize physical culture, as a natural …
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Extracting the eagle's talons : the Soviet Union in Cold War Latin America
… to extend their control over the region, the Soviets instead sought to pry Latin American regimes away from dependence on the United States and to encourage the region to adopt a non-aligned foreign policy. To a degree heretofore not sufficiently appreciated, this approach involved the clever …
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Exploration des composantes rythmiques dans Les Aventures de Tintin d'Hergé: regard sur les aspects d'une bande dessinée et leur impact sur la lecture
… intemporelle. Le passage de Tintin au pays des Soviets à Tintin et les Picaros est en soit preuve que les considérations de lisibilité de rythme d’Hergé deviennent de plus en plus importantes. Grâce à une approche comparative, cette thèse explore les ramifications des choix qu’Hergé fait en lien …
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The Ladle and the Knife: Power Projection and Force Deployment under Reagan
… with either frightening or bankrupting the Soviets into disarmament, these policies—particularly his military restraint in Lebanon—did more to bring Reagan himself to the negotiation table. These power projection measures contributed to a “peace through strength” narrative embraced by much …
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The Polish Home Army and the struggle for the Lublin region 1943-1945
… and the demands made of them by the incoming Soviets. The regional commander’s decision in July 1944 to order his forces to hand in their weapons and disperse meant that the human stock of the underground would remain, that it would survive the first wave of NKVD arrests. This meant that, …
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Britain's exploitation of Occupied Germany for scientific and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union
… of prisoners-of-war returned by the Soviets to the British Occupation Zone in the late 1940s yielded a wealth of valuable information on war-related construction and the locations of numerous intelligence targets in the Soviet Union: most importantly, those of atomic and chemical …
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From enmity towards alliance: The United States and German demilitarization, 1942-1947
… demilitarization. American difficulties with the Soviets during this period later intensified efforts at rehabilitating Germany.
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The Northern Territories dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union: from rivalry to rapprochement
… economic and political cooperation, allowing the Soviets to participate in the economic prosperity of the Pacific Basin. However, Japan refuses to comply with such concessions, and demands Soviet recognition of the territorial issue prior to negotiations. Furthermore, opposition toward such …
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China’s Last Warlord: Gao Gang and The Northeast People’s Government (1948-1954)
… and the Northeast Government: relations with the Soviets, industrial policy, land reform, political suppression campaigns, and the Korean War. An epilogue deals with the purge of Gao Gang and the elimination of the Northeast People’s Government.
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