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… state of emergency, placed Gorbachev under house arrest in Crimea , and sent tanks onto the streets of Moscow. But the … and defending Russia’s international interests. The End of History? The collapse of the Soviet Union was the world’s … commentator labelled the Soviet collapse the “end of history,” seeing the liberal democratic order as victorious …

… United States, where World War I is not written into family history in the same ways as World War II or Vietnam. Almost … from the war were traumatic. For the first time in modern history, death in combat reversed the normal succession of … World War in Russia. And they irrevocably changed world history, bringing to life the planet’s first officially …

… sources. The book restores the place of contingency in history and should serve a reminder that outcomes are never …

… an odd quality to an avowedly cultural approach to the history of the period. The relationship between culture and …

… and religious communities sharing space, culture, and history. Its profile today as a region torn "between Serbs … been a part of various states and empires throughout its history. As a vital part of the medieval kingdom of Serbia, … about and certainly the most notorious part of Kosovo's history. [For more on this topic, see the 1993 Origins print …

… the most dramatic and significant events in the long history of U.S. relations with Iraq. During the nine decades … physical artifacts that would corroborate Biblical history. U.S. oil corporations began probing Mesopotamia for … first century of the relationship. * * * For more on the history of U.S.-Iraq relations by Peter Hahn, see his …

… has largely taken over. Nizhnii Tagil also boasts a local history museum originally established at the unusually early … grant for the project “Exploring Russia's Environmental History and Natural Resources” … ww.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/russian-environmental-history/ and the Georgetown University Environment …

… ). The “storming of the Winter Palace” has gone down in history as the climactic moment of the October Revolution. … October Revolution still stands as a seminal event in world history. But no longer can it be seen in Marxist terms as … October Revolution did not, however, mark a new stage in history or humankind’s inevitable progression toward a …

… the Real's appreciation. [ Read here for more on the recent history of Brazil .] Appreciation and depreciation work a … economic policy changes in response to foreign pressure. History has taught the Chinese that it is more important … economic pliancy ultimately rested on the particular history of World War II, the U.S. Occupation, and Japan's …

… they must also be understood in the context of modern history and modern notions of borders, state sovereignty, … 8 million inhabitants are Sunni Muslims. Somalia's history goes a long way towards explaining the challenge … their efforts to build a stable state. [ For more on the history of Somalia, see this 1993 Origins article ] A …

… generated significant interest in Hellenic culture and history, leading to the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 … a strong sense of civic identity. In this telling of Greek history, such amateur athletic activity was slowly corrupted …

… a supply network for the Contras that could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva …

… occurred. Some seek its underlying causes in the long history of colonialism, which fractured the population along … more hopeful collective futures. To learn more about oral history stories from 1947, see the 1947 Partition Archive …

… older downtowns . During the 1950s and 1960s, queer bars, bookstores, and in some cases, local chapters of the … and helps mask other kinds of discrimination. This history, furthermore, reveals the ways that these … suburbanites in the U.S. have tried to reckon with the history of exclusion in their communities. Photo courtesy of …

… Fernandez is a professor of 20th century Latino and Chicano history at Rutgers University. He told me that not only were … from the last episode, a historian of 20th century women's history at The Ohio State University, Susan Hartmann Some …

… against Hindus and should therefore be wiped from the history books (as was the recent fate of the entire Mughal Empire in …

… Biafran War, became one of the most divisive wars in the history of post-independence Africa. Its traumatic effects, …

… in Historical Perspective —brings to life the vibrant history of war and geopolitics in the Middle East to help … in Perspective (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986), pp. 61-84. For a firsthand account, see Henry … on Twitter) And in a new twist last year, after annexing Crimea from Ukraine, Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous …

… Süleyman’s reign lasted 46 years, the longest in Ottoman history. Over that span, he rose to be one of the most powerful and influential monarchs of European history, feared on the battlefield and the conqueror of new …

… terms) from 1974 to 1979 than in its entire independent history . Indeed, during this time, this Gran Venezuela had … 2016 the country became the seventh in Latin American history to experience hyperinflation . Despite the …

… Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our …