Soviet Union – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 01 Sep 2025 02:48:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Soviet Union – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Why the Soviet Union Could Not Be Reformed in the 1980s and 1990s https://brewminate.com/why-the-soviet-union-could-not-be-reformed-in-the-1980s-and-1990s/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:19:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=240531 No one thought at the time that the Soviet Union could collapse. By Dr. José Luis Ferreira-GarcíaAssociate Professor

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]]> Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit: The ‘Stasi’ Secret Police in East Germany, 1950-1990 https://brewminate.com/ministerium-fur-staatssicherheit-the-stasi-secret-police-in-east-germany-1950-1990/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:04:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=251097 A network of civilian informants was used – neighbors spying on neighbors. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate

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]]> Unqualified Plunder: Kakistrocacy, or the True Story of What Happened in the Post-Soviet Era https://brewminate.com/unqualified-plunder-kakistrocacy-or-the-true-story-of-what-happened-in-the-post-soviet-era/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:10:05 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=246109 Systemic plunder and lawlessness. By Dr. Vahram AbadjianInternational Affairs AnalystCoalition for Local Self-Government of the Kyrgyz Republic Abstract

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]]> Putin’s War on History: Russian High School Textbooks Whitewash Stalin’s Terror https://brewminate.com/putins-war-on-history-russian-high-school-textbooks-whitewash-stalins-terror/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:40:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=224665 This whitewashing of Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals. By Dr.

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]]> The Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to the End of Stalin’s Rule https://brewminate.com/the-fashion-industry-in-the-soviet-union-from-the-russian-revolution-to-the-end-of-stalins-rule/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:00:41 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=208418 Due to high prices a fashionable suit was regarded as a luxury and a means of social distinction.

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]]> Fashion, Economic Development, and Standard of Living in the USSR after the Second World War https://brewminate.com/fashion-economic-development-and-standard-of-living-in-the-ussr-after-the-second-world-war/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=209006 The State and the ruling Party promised to satisfy the needs of its citizens, a promise they could

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]]> The Institutionalization of Fashion in the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1980 https://brewminate.com/the-institutionalization-of-fashion-in-the-soviet-union-from-1960-to-1980/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:30:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=209909 Various issues connected to the design and manufacture of fashion clothing. From Parallel Organizations The first Soviet fashion

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]]> “Tear Down This Wall”: How Top Advisers Opposed Reagan’s Challenge to Gorbachev https://brewminate.com/tear-down-this-wall-how-top-advisers-opposed-reagans-challenge-to-gorbachev/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:29:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=201301 On one side of the wall lay activity and progress. On the other lay a kind of void.

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]]> The Tempest: The February Revolution in Russia, 1917 https://brewminate.com/the-tempest-the-february-revolution-in-russia-1917/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:01:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=207032 The revolutionaries were actually behind the curve. The First Day: 23 February No-one expected it. Lenin, in exile

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]]> The Fall of It All: The Bolshevik Power Seizure and Counter-Revolution in Russia https://brewminate.com/the-fall-of-it-all-the-bolshevik-power-seizure-and-counter-revolution-in-russia/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:02:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=210064 Lenin’s question – ‘who is leading whom?’ – would receive its definitive answer. The Civil War The Russian

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