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Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Silvertrinity(f): 9:34pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Kimmyslaw(m): 9:34pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
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Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by shukuokukobambi: 9:35pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
LionDeLeo: Ok. Participants should expect a question on politics/current affairs and i'll be dropping it in 5mins CC:Omenka, Ishilove, LionDeLeo here goes: 2 Terms characterized the political landscape of the USSR in the years leading to it's disintegration in 1991. Name the 2 terms and briefly explain what they represented |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by akintadetope(m): 9:36pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
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Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by perrypablo: 9:37pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
perestroika and glasnost....the first means restructuring while glasnost represent transparency and openess |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by paste007(m): 9:37pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:In the 1970's and 1980's the Soviet Union seemed to be one of the most stable political units in the world. In international politics the Soviet Union was very strong and seemed only to be getting stronger. It was, for example, securing political client states in Africa. The Western powers believed this image was valid. But in the Soviet Union few things were really what they seemed to be. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Silvertrinity(f): 9:37pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The Afghanistan war and the break down of the Soviet Union |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by projet: 9:38pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:Congress of Soviets and the Supreme Soviet |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by EgusiShankly: 9:38pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
communist state |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nelsizzy(m): 9:38pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:1. The decision to move from capitalism to socialism following the works of Karl Max and Engel. 2. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by olaoluwa3124(m): 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:liberalisation - removal of restrictions Bureaucratic and authoritarian system One party system (communist) – unaccountable to the people |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Crisis in the Socialist bloc : People in many east European countries started protest against their own governments and USSR. Without the right intervention from USSR at the right time, communist governments in the second world collapsed one after the other. Economic and political reforms in USSR : Gorbachev identified the economic and political problems of USSR, and started a series of reforms, with the intention to revive economy. This was a deviation from the communist policies, and was more closely associated with the market economy. Many communist leaders in USSR opposed reforms initiated by Gorbachev. They encouraged a coup in 1991. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Cannonleo(m): 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
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Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by akintadetope(m): 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR). “Cold” because it
was never a “hot,” direct shooting
war between the United States and
the Soviet Union, the generations-
long, multifaceted rivalry
nevertheless bent the world to its
whims. Tensions ran highest,
perhaps, during the “first Cold
War,” which lasted from the
mid-1940s through the mid-1960s,
after which followed a period of
relaxed tensions and increased
communication and cooperation,
known by the French term détente,
until the “second Cold War”
interceded from roughly 1979 until
the collapse of the Berlin Wall in
1989 and the dissolution of the
Soviet Union in 1991. The Cold War
reshaped the world, and in so
doing forever altered American life
and the generations of Americans
that lived within its shadow. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by GuyGenius001(m): 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:Liberalisation |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by paste007(m): 9:39pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The Economic Collapse of the Soviet Union |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms Soviet Russia and Soviet Union are synonymous in everyday vocabulary, when we talk about the foundations of the Soviet Union, Soviet Russia refers to the few years after the abdication of the crown of the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II (in 1917), but before the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. Early in its conception, the Soviet Union strived to achieve harmony among all peoples of all countries. The original ideology of the state was primarily based on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In its essence, Marx's theory stated that economic and political systems went through an inevitable evolution in form, by which the current capitalist system would be replaced by a socialist state before achieving international cooperation and peace in a "Workers' Paradise," creating a system directed by what Marx called "Pure Communism." Displeased by the relatively few changes made by the Tsar after the Revolution of 1905, Russia became a hotbed of anarchism, socialism and other radical political systems. The dominant socialist party, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), subscribed to Marxist ideology. Starting in 1903, a series of splits in the party between two main leaders was escalating: the Bolsheviks (meaning "majority" ![]() ![]() Under the control of the party, all politics and attitudes that were not strictly RCP were suppressed, under the premise that the RCP represented the proletariat and all activities contrary to the party's beliefs were "counterrevolutionary" or "anti-socialist." During the years between 1917 and 1923, the Soviet Union achieved peace with the Central Powers, their enemies in World War I, but also fought the Russian Civil War against the White Army and foreign armies from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, among others. This resulted in large territorial changes, albeit temporarily for some of these. Eventually crushing all opponents, the RCP spread Soviet style rule quickly and established itself through all of Russia. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the RCP, became the de facto leader of the USSR. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Gloryejims(f): 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:Starlinism Leninism |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Adedayo516(m): 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Perestroika (Russian: перестро́йка; IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə] (About this sound listen))[1] was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s until 1991 widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness" ![]() Perestroika is sometimes argued to be a cause of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, and the end of the Cold War Glasnost, which translates to "openness" in English, was General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policy for a new, open policy in the Soviet Union where people could freely express their opinions. With glasnost, Soviet citizens no longer had to worry about neighbors, friends, and acquaintances turning them into the KGB for whispering something that could be construed as criticism of the government or its leaders. They no longer had to worry about arrest and exile for a negative thought against the State. Glasnost allowed the Soviet people to reexamine their history, voice their opinions on governmental policies, and receive news not pre-approved by the government. shukuokukobambi: 1 Like |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by paste007(m): 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The Afghanistan war and the breakdown of the Soviet Union |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Hkenny: 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
African Americans became increasingly restive in the
postwar years. During the war they had challenged
discrimination in the military services and in the work
force, and they had made limited gains. Millions of
blacks had left southern farms for northern cities,
where they hoped to find better jobs. They found
instead crowded conditions in urban slums. Now, black
servicemen returned home, intent on rejecting second-
class citizenship, as other blacks began to argue that
the time was ripe for racial equality.
Jackie Robinson dramatized the racial question in
1947 when he broke baseball's color line and began
playing in the major leagues. A member of the Brooklyn
Dodgers, he often faced trouble with opponents and
teammates as well. But an outstanding first season led
to his acceptance and eased the way for other black
players, who now left the Negro leagues to which they
had been confined.
Government officials, and many other Americans,
discovered the connection between racial problems and
Cold War politics. As the leader of the free world, the
United States sought support in Africa and Asia.
Discrimination at home impeded the effort to win
friends in other parts of the world.
Harry Truman supported the civil rights movement. He
believed in political equality, though not in social
equality, and recognized the growing importance of the
black urban vote. When apprised in 1946 of lynchings
and other forms of mob violence still practiced in the
South, he appointed a committee on civil rights to
investigate discrimination based on race and religion.
The report, issued the next year, documented blacks'
second-class status in American life. It asserted the
need for the federal government to secure the rights
guaranteed to all citizens.
Truman responded by sending a 10-point civil rights
program to Congress. When Southern Democrats, angry
about a stronger civil rights stance, left the party in
1948, Truman issued an executive order barring
discrimination in federal employment, ordered equal
treatment in the armed forces and appointed a
committee to work toward an end to military
segregation. The last military restrictions ended during
the Korean War.
Blacks in the South enjoyed few, if any, civil and
political rights. More than 1 million black soldiers
fought in World War II, but those who came from the
South could not vote. Blacks who tried to register faced
the likelihood of beatings, loss of job, loss of credit or
eviction from their land. Lynchings still occurred, and
Jim Crow laws enforced segregation of the races in
street cars, trains, hotels, restaurants, hospitals,
recreational facilities and employment.
DESEGREGATION
Blacks took matters into their own hands. The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) was determined to overturn the judicial
doctrine, established in the court case Plessy v.
Ferguson in 1896, that segregation of black and white
students in schools was constitutional if facilities were
"separate but equal." That decree had been used for
decades to sanction rigid segregation in the South,
where facilities were seldom, if ever, equal.
Blacks achieved their goal of overturning Plessy in
1954 when the Supreme Court -- presided over by an
Eisenhower appointee, Chief Justice Earl Warren --
handed down its Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
The Court declared unanimously that "separate
facilities are inherently unequal," and decreed that the
"separate but equal" doctrine could no longer be used
in public schools. A year later, the Supreme Court
demanded that local school boards move "with all
deliberate speed" to implement the decision.
Eisenhower, although sympathetic to the needs of the
South as it faced a major transition, nonetheless acted
quickly to see that the law was upheld. He ordered the
desegregation of Washington, D.C., schools to serve as
a model for the rest of the country, and sought to end
discrimination in other areas as well.
He faced a major crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, in
1957. Just before implementation of a desegregation
plan calling for the admission of nine black students to
a previously all-white high school, the governor
declared that violence threatened, and posted Arkansas
National Guardsmen to keep peace by turning the black
students away. When a federal court ordered the troops
to leave, the students came to school, only to
encounter belligerent taunts. As mobs became hostile,
the black students left.
Eisenhower responded by placing the National
Guardsmen under federal command and calling them
back to Little Rock. He was reluctant to do so because
federal troops had not been used to protect black
rights since the end of Reconstruction, but he knew he
had no choice. And so desegregation began with
soldiers standing in classrooms to ensure the rule of
law.
Another milestone in the civil rights movement occurred
in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks, a 42-
year-old black seamstress who was also secretary of
the state chapter of the NAACP, sat down in the front of
a bus in a section reserved by law and custom for
whites. Ordered to move to the back, she refused.
Police came and arrested her for violating the
segregation statutes. Black leaders, who had been
waiting for just such a case, organized a boycott of the
bus system. Martin Luther King Jr., a young minister of
the Baptist church where the blacks met, became a
spokesman for the protest. "There comes a time," he
said, "when people get tired...of being kicked about by
the brutal feet of oppression." King was arrested, as he
would be again and again, but blacks in Montgomery
sustained the boycott and cut gross bus revenue by 65
percent. About a year later, the Supreme Court ruled
that bus segregation, like school segregation, was
unconstitutional. The boycott ended. The civil rights
movement had won an important victory -- and
discovered its most powerful, thoughtful and eloquent
leader in Martin Luther King Jr.
African Americans also sought to secure their voting
rights. Although the 15th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution guaranteed the right to vote, many states
had found ways -- whether by a poll ("head") tax or a
literacy test -- to circumvent the law. Eisenhower,
working with Senate majority leader Lyndon B.
Johnson, lent his support to a congressional effort to
guarantee the vote. The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the
first such measure in 82 years, marked a step forward,
as it authorized federal intervention in cases where
blacks were denied the chance to vote. Yet loopholes
remained, and so activists pushed successfully for the
Civil Rights Act of 1960, which provided stiffer
penalties for interfering with voting, but still stopped
short of authorizing federal officials to register blacks.
Relying on the efforts of black Americans themselves,
the civil rights movement gained momentum in the
postwar years. Working through the Supreme Court and
through Congress, civil rights supporters created the
groundwork for an even more extensive movement in
the 1960s.
Outline of American Histo |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi:1.Economic Weakness The weakness of the economy was the major cause of dissatisfaction among the people in USSR. There was sever shortage of consumer items. The reason for economics weakness were the following. Huge military spending. Maintenance of satellite states in Easter Europe. Maintenance of the Central Asian Republics within the USSR. 2. Political Un-accountability The communist party regime (single party rule) for around 70 years turned authoritarian. There was widespread corruption, nepotism and lack of transparency. Gorbachev’s decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by gemiclem(m): 9:40pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP). The Bolsheviks, organized in 1903, were led by Vladimir I. Lenin, and they argued for a tightly disciplined organization of professional revolutionaries who were governed by democratic centralism and were dedicated to achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat. In 1917 they formally broke with the right, or Menshevik, wing of the RSDWP . In 1918, when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they changed their organization’s name to the All-Russian Communist Party; it was renamed the All-Union Communist Party in 1925 after the founding of the U.S.S.R. and finally to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:41pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
fidalgo19: invalid |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by EgusiShankly: 9:41pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
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Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
socialism and capitalism |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by emekakelvin(m): 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
shukuokukobambi: Liberation and Capitalist. Liberation talks about freedom in choosing their respective religion and activity without interference . I may be wrong Capitalism is the act of transferring ownership to the private. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by akintadetope(m): 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Though the terms Soviet Russia
and Soviet Union are synonymous in everyday
vocabulary, when we talk about the foundations
of the Soviet Union, Soviet Russia refers to the
few years after the abdication of the crown of
the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II (in
1917), but before the creation of the Soviet
Union in 1922. Early in its conception, the Soviet
Union strived to achieve harmony among all
peoples of all countries. The original ideology of
the state was primarily based on the works of
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . In its essence,
Marx's theory stated that economic and political
systems went through an inevitable evolution in
form, by which the current capitalist system
would be replaced by a socialist state before
achieving international cooperation and peace in
a "Workers' Paradise," creating a system
directed by what Marx called "Pure
Communism."
Displeased by the relatively few changes made
by the Tsar after the Revolution of 1905 , Russia
became a hotbed of anarchism , socialism and
other radical political systems. The dominant
socialist party, the Russian Social Democratic
Labour Party (RSDLP), subscribed to Marxist
ideology. Starting in 1903, a series of splits in
the party between two main leaders was
escalating: the Bolsheviks (meaning "majority" ![]() ![]() |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nazareth10: 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
liberalization which led to increase dispute among the states Cold war |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by gemiclem(m): 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism; communism). Until 1989 the Communist party indirectly controlled all levels of government; the party's politburo effectively ruled the country, and its general secretary was the country's most powerful leader. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state farms, collective farms , and small, privately held plots. Politically the USSR was divided (from 1940 to 1991) into 15 constituent or union republics— Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (see Belarus), Estonia, Georgia , Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (see Kyrgyzstan ), Latvia, Lithuania , Moldavia (see Moldova), Russia, Tadzhikistan (see Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, Ukraine , and Uzbekistan —ostensibly joined in a federal union, but until the final year or so of the USSR's existence the republics had little real power. Russia, officially the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (RSFSR), was only one of the constituent republics, but the terms "Russia," the "USSR," and the "Soviet Union" were often used interchangeably. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Nobody: 9:42pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
victorious and enduring revolutionary alliance. |
Re: 100k For Lucky Student Nairalanders. by Silvertrinity(f): 9:43pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities |
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