Topic: U.S.S.R.

There were a number of potential factors that led to the Cold War that started in the post-war era. These factors ensured that war-time alliance between the USSR and the west could not last, and resulted in the emergence of the Iron ...
" Let's look at a recent example ofempire destruction.In 1985, the Soviet Union started tocollapse. The Soviet Union was bankrupt, and collapse came in 1991 whenBoris Yeltsin rose to power. The USSR was overafter about 70 years, dying at its own hand.The ...

Who Are They Calling Elitist

Since then, no right-wing campaign has been complete without some form of repudiation of what former Vice Presi- dent Dan Quayle named the liberal "cultural elite," whose avowed purpose is to undermine all that is admirable and vir- tuous in Middle America, ...
click to enlarge Grandma still can't seem to grasp that Medicare is government health care. At least that's what Rick Perlstein argues, in rather convincing fashion, in a story in Sunday's Washington Post titled "In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: " ...