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Final Paper assignment and scoring guide
Yakov Smirnoff-Cold War Comedian
Marxist-Leninist theory presented in a way that won't make you bang your head against a wall...from students at the University of S. Dakota-my only comment on the Communism vs. Socialism page is that to more succinctly (read: more accurately, less confusing) define communism, it would be world wide socialism, rather than the confusing outline they present there... listen to my narrative for details when IRINA sets me straight.. Trotsky would tell you too, but Stalin had an ice pick driven into his head (40 x! ouch!)
"Russia is Finished"-"The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance" 2001 Atlantic Monthly article asserting that is "finished", a third rate nation with little chance of regaining its former stature. Jeffery Tayler picks up where I left off...(fellas-more Russian chicks in this article)...19 pages of excitement.
"The American and Russian People Don’t Want a New Confrontation"- interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, Newsweek, 2001. 4 pages.
"1989-The Walls Came Tumbling Down" lecture by Steven Kreis. 9 pages.
other stuff...
Quote: "You cannot understand us because you have not suffered and survived as we have...You have not been under the {Mongol} yoke, you have not lived under a Stalin - and God keep you from ever having to- so you cannot understand. You are from a different world- you are like Martians to us. And I suppose that we are like Martians to you." -David K. Shipler, RUSSIA: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (New York: Penguin Books, Ltd.), 1983, p.282.