God Bless You Joe Stalin: The Man who Saved CapitalismAlgora Publishing, 2006 - 312 pages Stalin has been accused of many things; add to the list his role as the father of modern-day economics. The author traces the evolution of the concept of the Almighty Dollar against the backdrop of the Cold War, demonstrates how individual decisions made |
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... major address to the Central Committee of the Communist party Stalin informed its broad membership that over the next years the Soviet Union would have to tighten its economic belt in order to be prepared for a forthcoming war with the ...
... major address to the Central Committee of the Communist party Stalin informed its broad membership that over the next years the Soviet Union would have to tighten its economic belt in order to be prepared for a forthcoming war with the ...
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... major military powers standing, the USSR and the USA, viewed the post-war world through different lenses. The wartime alliance had been nothing more than a mar- riage of convenience as far as both sides were concerned. The acceptance of ...
... major military powers standing, the USSR and the USA, viewed the post-war world through different lenses. The wartime alliance had been nothing more than a mar- riage of convenience as far as both sides were concerned. The acceptance of ...
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... major industrial nations of the world, had been obliterated by the four years of the First World War. None of the combatants had contemplated a war of such long duration. Nor were they in a financial position to undertake such a long ...
... major industrial nations of the world, had been obliterated by the four years of the First World War. None of the combatants had contemplated a war of such long duration. Nor were they in a financial position to undertake such a long ...
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... major industrial nations snapped back. But this was not the situation when the First World War came to an end. The victorious Allies naïvely assumed that defeated Germany would reimburse their treasuries with German gold. This ...
... major industrial nations snapped back. But this was not the situation when the First World War came to an end. The victorious Allies naïvely assumed that defeated Germany would reimburse their treasuries with German gold. This ...
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... major German cities in ruins. Its capital, Berlin, fiercely defended by Hitler's Waffen-SS, in house-to-house combat with the Rus- sians, was gutted. Nor was the situation much better in those countries that the Allied forces had ...
... major German cities in ruins. Its capital, Berlin, fiercely defended by Hitler's Waffen-SS, in house-to-house combat with the Rus- sians, was gutted. Nor was the situation much better in those countries that the Allied forces had ...
Contents
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A Different Portrait of Joe Stalin | 59 |
Chapter 4 The Contradictions of State Socialism | 87 |
The Truman Presidency | 95 |
The Eisenhower Presidency | 127 |
The Kennedy Presidency | 165 |
The Nixon Presidency | 209 |
The Presidencies of Ford and Carter | 221 |
The Reagan Presidency | 243 |
The George H W Bush Presidency | 267 |
The Vanished Track | 283 |
Appendix | 297 |
Recommended Readings | 305 |
Index | 309 |
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Page 98 - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Page 283 - Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We've lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds astray. What a number! Whither drift they? What's the mournful dirge they sing? Do they hail a witch's marriage Or a goblin's burying?
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Page 152 - ... units in Hungary could serve as an excuse for further aggravation of the situation, the Soviet Government has given its military command instructions to withdraw the Soviet military units from the city of Budapest as soon as this is considered necessary by the Hungarian Government. At the same time the Soviet Government is prepared to enter into the appropriate negotiations with the Government of the Hungarian People's' Republic and other members of the Warsaw Treaty on the question of the presence...
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Page 152 - As head of state, he announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw pact and appealed to the United Nations to support Hungary's independence and neutrality.