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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... With the help of a cadre of progressive Soviet jurists, Kollontai orchestrated the passage of two decrees: one replacing religious marriage with civil marriage, and another liberalizing divorce. In October 1918, the highest legislative body of the Soviet Union incorporated these decrees into a new family law...
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 83–88.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Jonathan Power Georgi Arbatov, the eminent grise of the Soviet foreign policy apparatus, was waiting for me at the bus stop an hour out of Moscow. A little bowed at 84, he grabbed me by one arm and leaned on his homemade walking stick cut from a nearby birch and led me to a small, shabby block...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 75–82.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of state, Cyrus Vance. Indeed, during that period, he was seen as the voice that gradually dissuaded Carter of his own more pacific inner convictions. He was responsible for the confrontational tone of accusations against the Soviet Union's failings on the human rights front, while at the same time playing...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 153–156.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Charles G. Cogan In 1993, I wrote an article for World Policy Journal entitled “Partners in Time: the CIA and Afghanistan since 1979.” The title was intended to convey the idea that this was a temporary arrangement; that once the external threat had been removed ( i.e. , the Soviet occupation...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 37–40.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the Iranian revolutionary leadership to act in American interests in the Cold War against the Soviets. Seeing all international issues in terms of the Cold War contributed to our trying to find ruling “moderates” in the Iran-Contra scandal, and also to our subsequent backing of Saddam Hussein during the Iran...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 126–145.
Published: 01 September 2005
... pronouncements of its principal mains “to this day the single most influen
U.S. protagonists. However, when it comes tial explanation of postwar Soviet behavior,
to the origins of America’s decision to con and one which powerfully reinforced the
front the Soviet Union in the aftermath of growing tendency...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 51–59.
Published: 01 September 2000
... one who was there at the time, king in 1973. While it may sound sinister
is almost certainly no. to call those officers “Soviet-trained,” many
Like the beat of a butterfly’s wings, in the Afghan military had received training
this local coup fanned regional and then just across the border...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 69–76.
Published: 01 September 2002
... from Iran by Russia, frontiers
Communist rule, from 1920 until the Soviet were conveniently redrawn to promote the
collapse in 1991, did not ameliorate, much divide-and-rule policies of the new colonial
less quell, sectarian divisions. Indeed, the power. Turkic-speaking Muslims in Rus
Soviet...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 68–76.
Published: 01 June 2000
... in the re
once known as the Union of Soviet Socialist gion hoped for and that many outside spe
Republics. Consider some of the changes cialists expected. In light of these setbacks
that have taken place in the region: Russia and disappointments, the next administra
has just elected a dynamic...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of
successes and failures of America’s attempts communism and of the Soviet Union, com
at democratic regime transformation. James ing just after the Gulf War, left them with
Goldgeier of George Washington University no road map to understand how Russia and
and Michael McFaul of Stanford University other...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2002
... great-power pretensions and
paign after September 11, which repre join what they called the “civilized” world,
sented a decisive break with both the Soviet i.e., the West. During the Clinton adminis
past and the ambivalence of Russia’s first tration, the United States facilitated Russia’s...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 67–73.
Published: 01 June 2005
... it
for most of these books treat Joseph Stalin was their policies of glasnost, democratiza
with kid gloves and are filled with un tion, and economic liberalization that com
abashed nostalgia for a great but vanished pleted the destruction of the Soviet Union.
past, for a time when the Soviet Union...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 17–24.
Published: 01 September 2003
... to lose its geopolitical weight on nance that had flourished at the turn of the
American scales. That is the end of the Cold century.4 By contrast, the vision of a close
War itself. transatlantic “partnership” was much more a
The disappearance of the Soviet Union...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 March 2000
... as the indiscriminate squash active involvement, and, just as important,
ing of democratic reformers by an unholy by the Soviets’ noninterference.
alliance of corrupt, old-time Greek politi Today, it is this international dimension
cians, reactionary monarchists, and even of the Greek civil war that fascinates...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 33–45.
Published: 01 December 2001
... their economies and shared
confront entrenched ruling elites, mostly security.
holdovers from the Soviet era, now bent on No Central Asian state has had a change
clinging to power by crushing all dissent of leadership since the Communist era ended
and opposition. The outcome of this con in 1991, and none...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 25–34.
Published: 01 June 2012
... © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Miguel Jiron For nearly three decades, since he first exploded onto the world scene, Garry Kasparov ruled the chessboard. A product of the Soviet system that elevated chess and its greatest champions to a pantheon reserved...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 25–32.
Published: 01 December 2001
... scientist Michael Mandelbaum of Russia, it is not only because of Cold War
has called “residual elites”: groups and indi hostility toward the Soviet Union (identi
viduals who rose to prominence during the fied crudely and unthinkingly with “Rus
Cold War and have lacked the flexibility to sia...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 83–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Andrei Soldatov; Irina Borogan © 2011 World Policy Institute 2011 World Policy Institute M oscow —When the Soviet Union collapsed, many observers expected its fearsome intelligence apparatus to wither as well. Instead, the post-Soviet era has seen the emergence of an even more...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 88–93.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Youth About the Soviet Lands 7 November 1923 The Eleventh Anniversary of the Death of Lenin and National Independence of Mongolia The Great Celebration of the Revelation and the Politics of the New Course Speech at a meeting of workers in the city of Ulan Bataar 23 June 1941 Copyright ©...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 13–22.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to all of the democratic West’s
to put its stamp of approval on Moscow’s values and norms, but rather that Russia
efforts to recapture the former Soviet em since 1991 (and, some would argue, since
pire and to reemerge as a force to be reck about the seventeenth century) has been...
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