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The article examines the experience of Russian regionalism in mid-19th – early 20th century Tuva, which took shape of setting up a colony of Russian subjects and became one of the most powerful factors behind the declaration of the People’s Republic of ...
Vladimir G. Dazishen
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USING ECONOMIC INCENTIVES TO CONTROL POLLUTION IN RUSSIA [PDF]
This paper investigates Russia's system of environmental management, especially economic tools used to control pollution. It also describes the Russian experience with a system of pollution fees.
Golub, Alexander, Kolstad, Charles D.
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CIA and the Cold War Era [PDF]
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in the Cold War. Great detail highlights the timeliness of the CIA’s creation and dynamic role over the years that followed its founding.
Byers, Mary E
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The study focuses on a very important historiographical and methodological problem, because the accuracy of the source base and scientific literature has always been a cornerstone issue in the course of historical research of any scale. The relevance of the subject is determined by its high significance to the social sciences, primarily economics ...
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What Went Wrong? The reasons for the Failure of Stabilization in Russia in 1992 [PDF]
In this paper we examine four main kinds of reason for Gaidar's team failure in Russia: 1) problems arising from the process of designing the programme; 2) failures of implementation; 3) problems arising from Russia's economic structure; 4) problems ...
Jacek Rostowski, Marek Dabrowski
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Kazakhstan's Pension System : Pressures for Change and Dramatic Reforms [PDF]
Five years ago, Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension and social security system in order to move from an unsustainable public defined benefit ("solidarity") system to one of defined mandatory contributions (accumulative system).
Becker, Charles M., Seitenova, Ai-gul S.
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The USSR and The GDR: Mutual Collapse
The Soviet Union had a number of satellite states, where communist puppet regimes were propped up in order to serve the interests of the Soviet Union. The Eastern Bloc was established with the goal of spreading the Soviet style of government, regardless ...
Alessi, Jessica M.
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Agricultural reform in developing countries : reflections for Eastern Europe [PDF]
The reform of formerly centrally planned economies involves freeing the price system, developing a competitive environment, and privatizing many of the state-owned or controlled assets and services, while simultaneously generating the social, economic ...
Braverman, Avishay, Guasch, J. Luis
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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development [PDF]
Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation).
Tong, Jian, Xu, Chenggang
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Tatar nation building since 1991: Ethnic mobilisation in historical perspective’ [PDF]
This study analyses the process of ethnic mobilization in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras and assesses the way in which history, memory and the treatment of the Volga Tatars by the Soviet state, especially under Lenin and Stalin, affected their long term
Williams, Christopher
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