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… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … Estonia, was a protest in the form of a human chain that connected the three capitals of the Baltic states. The … and erratic (often drunken) behavior, shock therapy discredited liberal reforms. People began to look for a …

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… are Hindus (more than 1 billion people), with Muslims comprising the next most populous group at 15%. First-time … sentiment against British colonial control in India coalesced with the formation of the Indian National Congress in … them to suggest that Nehru and the Congress lacked the requisite strength to run a nation, while the war against …

… changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … Yet today’s crisis of the Catholic Church, which commentators have called the gravest since the Reformation , … nature. A fresco in the Church of the Incoronata in Naples, Italy painted between 1352 and 1354, entitled …