how did this policy come to an end? it was during the development of the Soviet Union in 1917-1928
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It was actually Stalin's personal decision to end it. People were getting too rich, and they did not care very much about Socialist Principals any more. Neither Stalin nor the Communist Party were interested to lose control over Russia, hence it was decided to cancel the NEP toward the end of the 1920th decade. Cancellation of NEP was the first step of Stalin Power consolidation, Purges and Hunger were to follow.
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There probably is not one answer, but a lot of interpretations of policies, etc.  However, one clear effect was the huge military build up that sparked some industry in the US.  Whether this was good or bad for the economy in the eighties is up to interpretation.  It certainly slowed the growth of new, inventive economic strategies and policies.
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B... eventually. US took over most of Britain's mid-east role, France lost out in Vietnam and Algeria, and so on and so on.\n\nAnd the Warsaw Pact was between the USSR and Eastern European States from 1955 to 1991. Duh
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It was a former soviet republic, part of the now defunct USSR. it is now its own political entity and has its own government and capital, Kiev.
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a utopia of the liberal mind = the Soviet Union
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THE COLD WAR ENDED AND CLINTON CONTINUED A REDUCTION PLAN THAT POPPY BUSH IMPLEMENTED.  THERE WAS NO NEED TO KEEP SPENDING MONEY AFTER THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSED.
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This is beyond the scope of a simple answer, but there were two revolutions, the first in February of 1917 in which tsar Nicholas was overthrown and a Provisional government set up under Kerensky, and a second revolution in October, (or November, depending on which calendar you use) when the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional goverment and established the Soviet state.  Following this was the civil war in which the forces of the Red and White armies fought for control.  The Bolsheviks were holding Nicolas and his family and entourage in a house requisitioned from an engineer, Nicholas Ipatev, in Ekaterinburg, and in July, 1918 when White forces threatened to take the town, the Imperial family was ushered to the basement and shot, their bodies carried in a truck into a forest and dumped first into a mine shaft and then reburied in a shallow grave.\n\nThere are quite a number of books on this subject, and the matter is far too complex and detailed to permit any satisfactory discussion here.
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The East German government, which was a surrogate of communist Russia, built the Berlin wall.  The purpose of the wall was to separate the two Germany's, but more importantly, to keep the east Berliners from escaping to the west.  To freedom.\nThe wall idea was conceived by the communist party.  It was finally torn down because the soviet influence and financial resources had gone south.  The Russians could no longer subsidize east Germany.  In the meantime, other pressures were being brought to bear.  In Poland, the labor unions were turning on the communist party.  In Russia itself, the idea of a democracy was becoming a reality.  These events overwhelmed the communist party and it was forced to capitulate to the will of the people.
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Generally, in a post-war scenario, when the government that was would have collapsed with the victor taking control. With a view to stabilising the situation and  running the state during interregnum the forces that have usurped the power will form a post war government, as an interim measure.
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To answer your questions in order:\n\nYes, the Soviet Union (which included Russia) was an ally of the US and the British.  The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also called the Soviet Union.  Russia was a part of the USSR, but wasn't called Russia then), led by Stalin, signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler (leader of Germany).  This was in force until Hitler broke it and invaded the Soviet Union.  Stalin was taken unawares and unprepared, so Hitler did well at first.  Stalin therefore allied with the British and the US to fight the Germans.  The "cold war" didn't start until after WWII During the jostling for control over the states freed from the Nazis. \n\n*****\n\nThe USSR and the Japanese didn't work together.  The war in Europe against Germany) ended sooner than that in Japan (May 8, 1945 for Germany’s surrender and August 15, 1945 for Japan’s) and the USSR was free to declare war on Japan, which it did.  This was one of the reasons that the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.  It wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union forces entered the fighting, who would then stay and have control in that country and region.  \n\nAfter WWII Germany was divided into two halves, appropriately called West and East Germany.  The US, the United Kingdom (the British) and France controlled the West.  The Soviet Union controlled the East.  Germany was two different countries.  The US, UK and France set up a democracy in the West and then left (although the US left troops to guard against an attack from the Soviet Union, and many are still stationed there.  Now the bases are used as staging grounds for operations in the Afghanistan and Iraq).  The country they created was called the Federal Republic of Germany.\n\nThe Soviet Union established a country in the Eastern half, called the German Democratic Republic. This was not democratic though – it was communist.  The Soviet Union had many troops stationed there as well, and had a lot of influence in the Eastern half.  Vladimir Putin, the current President of the Russian Federation, worked in East Germany as a spy when he was part of the KGB (this isn’t a secret – he admits it freely and uses his excellent German in speeches).\n\n*****\nGermany played a very strong role in the War.  They were allied with Japan, but because they had some common enemies in their efforts to expand their territories.  In Europe, the war started when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, claiming to be uniting the Germans who lived there (Austrians speak German and there were a lot of Germans in Czechoslovakia.  The moved there in the centuries that it belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which were all names used at different times to describe the same Empire ruled from the Austrian city of Vienna). At this point there was a lot of nervousness in Europe, as Hitler was using rhetoric such as “Germans need more land to live, which is their birthright.” But the British made a deal with Hitler that they would let him keep those countries if he didn’t go any further.  Hitler agreed, but he invaded Poland anyway, and kept going from there. He took France, Bombed England and wanted to invade, and moved through Eastern Europe.  He also invaded the USSR, as mentioned above.\n\nThe US at this point wasn’t involved.  Hitler made an alliance with the Japanese, who were engaged in their own war of expansion, because both were fighting the British and French (the British had a lot of Colonial holdings in the Pacific, and the French had some, too).  \n\nThe US became involved when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese wanted the US to withdraw from the pacific, but instead the US declared war on the Japanese.  The Japanese and the Germans were allied, so Germany declared war on the US, which then also entered the European war.  It was already helping the UK and the USSR with equipment and logistical support,
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Stalin's post-war aims was to secure the immediate security needs of the USSR and to establish a base for recovery after the terrible damages of World War II. The war had cost over 20 million Soviet lives and destroyed a large proportion of Soviet industry and Stalin was determined that the Soviet Union be repaid in strategic influence and territory what his country had given in blood. He was especially keen to create a buffer zone of friendly states in Eastern Europe to protect the USSR from further attack from the West. This was to include the Baltic States, Poland, Hungery, Yugoslavia and Romania.\n\nChurchill's main strategy was to ensure the continuation of British-American wartime cooperation which he viewed as vital to mainting British influence on the world. As a keen colonialist, he was also concerned with keeping possesion of British overseas territories, despite increasing stirrings for independence in the immediate post-war period. He was keen to counter the rise of the USSR, particularly it's growing influence in Eastern Europe.\n\nRoosevelt wanted to adopt a modified form of Woodrow Wilson's idealist international vision. He acted early towards creating a United Nations to guarentee collective security, but one that was based on the principles of power politics (in the form of a Security Council). He was keen to try and maintain the wartime alliance as he viewed this as the main avenue for peace being preserved, but scholars differed over how much he trusted Stalin and was willing to accomodate him.
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How would this help regain it's past glory?  Even when it was the Soviet Union it had a lot of internal problems which still plague it today.  That's what caused the Soviet Union to collapse in the first place.  I doubt Iran going to war would help them in anyway because it'd disrupt oil production from the country for a period of time (if a ground war broke out).
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Famine is almost always man-made, and is almost always completely avoidable.\n\nYes, the famine in Ukraine was a direct result of the Collectivisation movement PLUS the effort on the part of Stalin to destroy a renewal of Ukrainian nationalism remaining from the German puppet state created in 1918. First, Stalin increased the demand from the central government for Ukrainian agricultural products by about 40% while decreasing material assistance. Further, when people were told they would be Collectivized (their lands would be pooled with everyone elses as well as posessions) they killed all of their livestock to make the government feed them. The government did not feed them, and approximately 23 million died. There had been earlier famines under the Bolshevik regime, so people should not have thought they could outsmart Stalin like this.\n\nSometimes famine preceeds Communist take-over, but it ALWAYS follows Communist take-over.
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Open the China to the World. Open it up. The Communist Era and The Socialist Era were over.
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I don't know of any sites to direct you to...\n\nbut you might want to research the economic situation of the countries after WWI...hyperinflation and social instability, which paved the path for Hitler's rise to power.\n\nI would also investigate WHY this happened: the treaty signed punishing Germany, so that they were in the aforementioned economic position...
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it really didnt expand..it overtook the baltic states and Alaska but thats about it. Russia was behind technologically during colonialism. Peter the great changed that with the formation of the russian navy and railroads to and from siberia. The new transportation systems allowed the population to reside in cities so they can get their goods shipped in via train and boat.
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace