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The Alien and Sedition Acts
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts? Although commonly put together as one thing, the Alien and Sedition Acts were actually four...
Lucy Kaplan
Jun 22
The Glasnost Gambit: The Baltic Road from Soviet Silence to Sovereignty
In 1992, reflecting on the tumultuous journey of the Soviet Union between 1985 to 1991, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union...
Emily Park
Jun 15
The Dual Edge of Modernization: Meiji Japan
When Commodore Perry forced Japan to open trade in 1853, he also pushed the nation to modernize in order to protec t itself from colonial...
Ian Chang
Jun 8
The Fall of Empires: World War II and the End of Colonial Rule
Since the 1400s, European empires maintained control over African colonies using their advanced weaponry and military technology,...
Ian Chang
Jun 8
Glasnost: A Review
As Gorbachev developed glasnost, he sought controlled reforms to revitalize the nation. He intended for glasnost to involve the open...
Emily Park
Jun 7
Glasnost and the Baltic States
The Baltic Republics (Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia) were the first Soviet republics to embrace the open political forum that glasnost...
Emily Park
Jun 7
The Implementation of Glasnost and the Start of its Unintended Consequences
Before glasnost, the Soviet regime only allowed the Communist Party hierarchy to voice opinions through state-controlled media. Glasnost...
Emily Park
Jun 7
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