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… II, the last Romanov tsar, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet General Secretary, both instituted dry laws and … or spent any time in Russia or its predecessor state, the Soviet Union, instinctively knows much of what Schrad details. I …

… health campaigns in addition to refugee programs), its international posturing often clashed with domestic political … often undercut American rhetoric and even played into Soviet propaganda. Porter demonstrates that the United … political refugees who arrived after a failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising just in time for an economic recession. …

… Gustave Courbet pegged the reconstructed ornament as a “nationalistic symbol of tyranny and militarism.” When the … same to a statue of Christopher Columbus in 1986. 9. Post-Soviet Iconoclasm The Republic of Councils Monument in … statues from Hungary's communist period. Throughout the new Soviet Republics , more than 500 tsarist monuments were …

… as now, the sacrifice of a scapegoat may have served as a national catharsis, but it didn’t solve the underlying …

… was a war of thousands of guns, tanks, and planes—a “gross national product war” according to one historian.  It was a … seep into the basements of unsuspecting families, causing a national scandal. The 1941 dumping of  toxic substances into Love Canal turned into a national scandal in the 1970s after unsuspecting citizens …

… are women facing extra threats during warfare and international conflicts? But again, looking at this internationally, how have definitions of violence against women … what is the relationship of the police in the US or internationally to this topic? And maybe Peggy, if you'd like to …

… for maintaining society. The exiles led by the Iraqi National Congress simply do not have enough personnel at … 1067) as long as there was a very real threat from the Soviet Union. The United States did not want to see Saddam Hussein …

… election of 1948, and it had a profound impact on the national conversation about race. It seems obvious today …

… the plaza and the avenue connecting the Casa Rosada and the national Congress marked a consequential moment in … refused to comply with Perón-era labor regulations. Unions across the country called for immediate mobilization … but rather in a military hospital in the capital, assuaged union leaders. Rank and file members, however, forced their …

… failed to recognize that their assaults could ignite nationalist passions and create wider hostilities. … more likely to fan the flames of ethnic, religious, and national rivalries than to put them out. Clinton does have …

… Statement, Youth for Western Civilization, Tom Tancredo, national chair   Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo … comparative politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. … Lynn Holland … …

… Just a week after the terrorist attack on the United States, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice insisted that …

… bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at Promontory …

… the 1920s and 1930s. By allowing North Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and … proposed the League of Nations as a means to resolve international disputes. The UN was created in 1945 because the … the leadership of the United States created an international coalition that liberated Kuwait in 1991. Similarly, …

… and the inequality it produced, caused of the riots. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner …

… the world have been falling as if stricken by an international disease. Some business leaders are now expressing fear that an international meltdown could create a Great Depression like the one that wrecked national economies in the 1930s. They observe that the …

… firm Whitaker and Baxter with the purpose to malign the national health insurance. They came up with the phrase … believed that this policy would be the first step towards national health insurance, Medicare would start an … and that is to say that those people who are an advocate of national health program of one sort or another think health …

… experiences, and to show how diary keeping became a way for Soviet citizens to understand their place in a society in … compared Cold War “nuclear cities” in the U.S. and Soviet Union), Brown focuses mainly on the everyday people effected … to ongoing weapons testing and nuclear programs, and international organizations, such as the World Health …

… joined together for bicycle safety.  One of the great national debates on the status of cycles and their place in … was useful in demonstrating how the “cycling city” was a national phenomenon, the addition of examples from other …

… As national governments and the global scientific community … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.   … How do conspiracy …

… Security system in 20 years, the president addressed the National Association of Realtors, the largest political … He insists that private retirement accounts would increase national savings and, in turn, boost investment and economic … and programs that help people survive and ensure national progress are cut rather than strengthened. Were he …

… the peak of its power, “peace and stability” became our national mantra, as if the two words were synonymous. …