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The Failure Of Third-Party Interventions In Civil Wars, Benjamin D. Giltner Jan 2021

The Failure Of Third-Party Interventions In Civil Wars, Benjamin D. Giltner

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the circumstances that result in the inability of third-party interventions to solve civil wars. Previous research has examined the impact of third-party interventions on the outcomes of civil wars, the interests of third-party actors in civil wars, as well as the perceptions of civil war participants on third-party actors. The theory in this paper asserts that third-party interventions are unsuccessful when the government and leader of at least one country place the interest of special interest groups ahead of the national interest of their country. This research uses the war in eastern …


"Worse Than Guards:" Ordinary Criminals And Political Prisoners In The Gulag (1918-1950), Elizabeth T. Klements Jan 2019

"Worse Than Guards:" Ordinary Criminals And Political Prisoners In The Gulag (1918-1950), Elizabeth T. Klements

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This paper explores the volatile relationship between the political prisoners and the common criminals in the Soviet GULAG. Lenin's theories on crime and punishment shaped the early Soviet penal system; he implemented policies which favored the common criminals and repressed the political prisoners. He deemed that the criminals, as "social allies" of the working class, were more likely to become good Soviet citizens than the political prisoners, considered "counterrevolutionaries" and "enemies of the state." In the decade after the Bolshevik revolution, the prison administration empowered the criminals in the GULAG by giving them access to the life-saving jobs and goods …


Government And The Intelligence Community: A Case Study On Russia And The United States Government's Effect On Intelligence Systems, Jessica M. Lago Jan 2018

Government And The Intelligence Community: A Case Study On Russia And The United States Government's Effect On Intelligence Systems, Jessica M. Lago

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The United States and Russia are two major superpowers with governments that are run in different manners. Central to a government's and country's defense is their intelligence systems. The intelligence systems of these two countries are run as part of the government and are integral to its functioning. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss how both the governments and intelligence systems are structured and do they coincide with their respective systems. Using a case study on the United States and Russia, their intelligence systems and governments a comparison was drawn. While looking at the history of both governments …


Communism's Futures: Intelligentsia Imaginations In The Writings Of The Strugatsky Brothers, Elizabeth Tammaro Jan 2017

Communism's Futures: Intelligentsia Imaginations In The Writings Of The Strugatsky Brothers, Elizabeth Tammaro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were the most popular science fiction writing duo in Soviet Russia from the 1960s through the 1980s. Examining their imaginative fictional worlds against the background of wider changes in the Soviet Union allows scholars to gain insights in the world of the Soviet intelligentsia, the educated bearers of culture. As members of this group, the Strugatskys expressed the hopes, frustrations and fears, of their peers, vindicating their intellectual and emotional life. I support the argument that the Brothers occupied a middle ground between conformity and dissident, dubbed the "lost" intelligentsia by Lloyd Churchward. I demonstrate this …


Ethics In The Soviet Union Today, Howard L. Parsons Jan 1965

Ethics In The Soviet Union Today, Howard L. Parsons

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Moscow Vs. Peking: The Meaning Of The Great Debate, George Edward Novack Jan 1963

Moscow Vs. Peking: The Meaning Of The Great Debate, George Edward Novack

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Fidel Castro Speaks On Marxism-Leninism: Dec. 2, 1961, Fidel Castro Jan 1962

Fidel Castro Speaks On Marxism-Leninism: Dec. 2, 1961, Fidel Castro

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Trotskyism And The Cuban Revolution: An Answer To Hoy, Joseph Hansen Jan 1962

Trotskyism And The Cuban Revolution: An Answer To Hoy, Joseph Hansen

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Main Street To Wall Street: End The Cold War!, Gus Hall Jan 1962

Main Street To Wall Street: End The Cold War!, Gus Hall

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Fidel Castro Denounces Bureaucracy And Sectarianism: Speech Of March 26, 1962, Fidel Castro Jan 1962

Fidel Castro Denounces Bureaucracy And Sectarianism: Speech Of March 26, 1962, Fidel Castro

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Fraud Of Soviet Anti-Semitism, Herbert Aptheker Jan 1962

The Fraud Of Soviet Anti-Semitism, Herbert Aptheker

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Cuban Episode And The American Press: April 9-23, 1961, Norbert L. Mintz Jan 1961

The Cuban Episode And The American Press: April 9-23, 1961, Norbert L. Mintz

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of The Cuban Revolution: An Answer To The State Department And Theodore Draper, Joseph Hansen Jan 1961

In Defense Of The Cuban Revolution: An Answer To The State Department And Theodore Draper, Joseph Hansen

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Marxism Since The Communist Manifesto, Alfred G. Meyers Jan 1961

Marxism Since The Communist Manifesto, Alfred G. Meyers

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


History Will Absolve Me., Fidel Castro Jan 1961

History Will Absolve Me., Fidel Castro

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


U. S. Foreign Policy And The Soviet Union, Fred Warner Neal Jan 1961

U. S. Foreign Policy And The Soviet Union, Fred Warner Neal

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Truth About Jews In The Soviet Union: The Letter Life Refused To Print, Sofia Frey Jan 1960

The Truth About Jews In The Soviet Union: The Letter Life Refused To Print, Sofia Frey

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


What I Saw In--The Soviet Union Today, George Morris Jan 1959

What I Saw In--The Soviet Union Today, George Morris

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Hungarian Revolution: Documents, Shane Henry Mage Jan 1959

The Hungarian Revolution: Documents, Shane Henry Mage

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Truth About The Prague Trial., Louis Harap Jan 1958

The Truth About The Prague Trial., Louis Harap

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Marxism Vs. Soviet Despotism, Arnold Petersen Jan 1958

Marxism Vs. Soviet Despotism, Arnold Petersen

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Force Versus Food: A Short History Of Agriculture In The Soviet Sphere, Robert H. Bass Jan 1957

Force Versus Food: A Short History Of Agriculture In The Soviet Sphere, Robert H. Bass

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Visit To India, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin Jan 1956

Visit To India, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Report To The Supreme Soviet On The Trip To India, Burma And Afghanistan, Nokolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin Jan 1956

Report To The Supreme Soviet On The Trip To India, Burma And Afghanistan, Nokolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


"We Stand For Peaceful Coexistence": Interviews With N. S. Khrushchev, N. A. Bulganin [And] G. K. Zhukov, William Randolph Hearst Jan 1955

"We Stand For Peaceful Coexistence": Interviews With N. S. Khrushchev, N. A. Bulganin [And] G. K. Zhukov, William Randolph Hearst

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The 50th Anniversary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, 1903-1953, Propaganda And Agitation Department Of The C.C.C.P. S.U Jan 1953

The 50th Anniversary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, 1903-1953, Propaganda And Agitation Department Of The C.C.C.P. S.U

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Soviet Olympic Team And Soviet Athletics, Ralph Izard Jan 1953

The Soviet Olympic Team And Soviet Athletics, Ralph Izard

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Discussion On Makarenko In The Soviet Press, Anonymous Jan 1952

Discussion On Makarenko In The Soviet Press, Anonymous

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Soviet Union Builds For Peace, Lavrentiì Pavlovich Beriìa Jan 1952

The Soviet Union Builds For Peace, Lavrentiì Pavlovich Beriìa

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Road To Peace According To Stalin And According To Lenin, James Patrick Cannon Jan 1951

The Road To Peace According To Stalin And According To Lenin, James Patrick Cannon

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.