... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... Lenin Bolsheviks Russian Revolution empire communism Marxism capitalism Joseph Stalin Soviet Union imperialism nationalism Russia empire self-determination In the first quarter-century since the disintegra-tion of the Soviet Union and the collapse of self-described communism...

...Kristina Stoeckl The Russian Orthodox Church has emerged as a powerful force for cultural, social, and political conservatism. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California 271 The Russian Orthodox Church has emerged as a powerful force...

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... of eastern Ukraine. The crisis is also clearly about much more than just Ukraine. It will therefore have longer-lasting consequences than previous local crises, such as Ukraine s 2004 Orange Revolution, or even the Russian war in Georgia in 2008. The immediate causes were, of course, local. Ukraine has been...

...Michael A. Reynolds The Ottoman and Russian empires clashed for centuries, but Turkey's recent embrace of its imperial legacy has not emboldened it to challenge Moscow over the annexation of Crimea. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... reform and eco- nomic development have transformed the coun- try into the regional leader. After the loss of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a result of Russian aggression, Georgia has committed itself to pursuing a pro-Western stra- tegic reorientation, forging ties...

... of California Laura Henry Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom Ukraine Russia Putin Vladimir West collapse communism Crimea Donbas Donbass invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Poroshenko Malaysian Kremlin Nato EU Brics revolution protest...

... of California Samuel Charap Jeremy Shapiro Ukraine Russia Putin Vladimir West collapse communism Crimea Donbas Donbass invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Poroshenko Malaysian Kremlin Nato EU Brics revolution protest sanction...

... invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Nato EU Brics revolution protest nationalism The past is never dead. It s not even past. William Faulkner s famous line definitely applies to the postcommu- nist space: a political, moral, and cultural uni...

... rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Marlene Laruelle Ukraine Russia Putin Vladimir West collapse communism Crimea Donbas Donbass invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Poroshenko Malaysian Kremlin Nato...

...Li Narangoa Mongolian leaders have decided the nation must find ways to take care of itself, rather than rely on its neighbors. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Li Narangoa squeezed Russian Russia Chinese China neighbors...

... Carcas Television crime Raul Isaias Baduel United Socialist Party Venezezuela National Assembly clodosbaldo Russian 77 Socialism for the twenty-first century is looking more and more like political suicide in the making. For Chávez, Still More Discontent Javier corraleS Venezuela s...

...Mark Kramer Russia has made considerable progress toward a democratic system, but the new legal rights Russian citizens have acquired will remain precarious until a true liberal democracy is firmly in place. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University...