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10 Cards in this Set
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Between 1992-1995
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Decline in GDP
Decline in life expectancy |
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Brezhnev Era
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Any dissident inside the USSR suppressed
Polish solidarity and Prague Spring |
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Gorbachev Era
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Policies of Glasnost and Perestroika
Openness and restructuring Movement away from totalitarianism |
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After the fall of the Berlin wall
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Uprisings in Poland, Hungry, Bulgaria, Romania, eventually gain autonomy
Movement in Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - for independence Gorbachev resigns as president of USSR - Yeltsin comes to power |
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Shock Therapy
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Liberalization of the economy, privatization of former Soviet state industries
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Selling of shares of soviet state industry results in
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Shares of national industries end up concentrated in the hands of a small group of men - the Russian oligarchs (ex. Roman Abramovich)
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Putin elected
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Managed democracy
Re-embedded market in government GDP has increased |
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Post-war condition in Europe
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Atmosphere of recovery and rebuilding
Transition period/unfinished business Formation of new states |
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Characteristics of socialism
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Centralized planning
Surveillance Paternalistic redistribution |
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Why did socialism fall
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Hungary openedits borders to capitalismBorrowing becamea substitute for extensive internal changesIntent to payback the loans by exporting manufactured goodsCorruption ofofficialsDual economy –market and command
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