Nor does he share the post-ideological certainties of his son, a demographer who published a prescient book on the coming fall of the Soviet Union in 1976, the year of Malraux's death.
Less grand is the explanation that, with the removal of political barriers to trade after the fall of the Soviet Union in other words, with the start of the most recent wave of globalization manufacturing has moved to the places with the lowest wages, the weakest environmental restrictions, and the most lax regulatory regimes.
The Arab spring is the greatest mass movement towards democracy since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The country has been ruled by the party since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, the death rate never exceeded 11.6, and it averaged 9.3.
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She had, after all, made untold millions or perhaps billions in the gas industry soon after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union regional GDP has fallen by 68% as Soviet-era subsidies have ground to a halt.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Berezovsky built his fortune by gaining effective control of Russia's largest Soviet-era car maker, Avtovaz.
He was in voluntary exile from that country for many years but was able to return after the fall of the Soviet Union.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the republic's authorities stayed loyal to Russia, but the region became infamous for its lawlessness and corruption.
Cuba faces the return of the frequent power cuts that were common in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, its hitherto paymaster.
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With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the over 30 year long period of MAD between the two greatest powers on Earth ended.
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Businessmen who came to be known as oligarchs amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance.
In light of Russia's hostility, and its rejection of democracy, it is evident that the fall of the Soviet Union did not foment a change in Russia's moral or psychological make-up.
The only exceptions have been cities where development has been distorted by ideology, such as Moscow before the fall of the Soviet Union, notes Alain Bertaud, a former principal planner World Bank.
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Sadam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, our two chief antagonists after the fall of the Soviet Union, have taken to an early grave while our republic is as tall and strong as ever.
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The fall of the Soviet Union ushered in a great expansion of the world economy as the energy wasted in Cold War posturing was redirected into opening up the economic prospects for billions.
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He said he moved to Chechnya with his family for a year in 1994 after the fall of the Soviet Union, but quickly returned to Kyrgyzstan after disliking the situation in his ethnic homeland.
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union six years ago, China has worked hard to shore up its diplomatic and military relations with Central Asian neighbors who have long harbored suspicions about Beijing's designs.
The case raised a public curtain on the world of Russia's oligarchs, those who amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
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What is interesting is that after the fall of the Soviet Union and the halt in their economic support, Cuba's economy (according to a February 23, 2008 report in the Economist) shrank by 35 percent.
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Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union however, with the resulting massive increases in trade and overall interdependence between nations, and the advent of the internet, with its electronic banking and finance, all this has completely changed.
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The foundation for Islamist extremism was laid in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Dagestan became a transit route for jihadis from the Middle East who volunteered to fight the Kremlin in the separatist war in neighboring Chechnya.
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Mr. Caryl makes a fairly compelling case that this was a year when history made a sharp turn and that each leader set in motion the seismic changes that came to shape our world today: the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of China and the emergence of radical Islam.
The introduction of supply-side policies in 1981 and the fall of the Soviet Union (and its satellites) in 1991 were crucial to making the 1980s and 1990s so prosperous, but the prior abandonment of gold-based money in 1971 has only eroded those gains by permitting a massive rate of growth in government deficit-spending.
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Until the Cold War ended, the main fear was that the CLM nations would fall permanently under the sway of the Soviet Union.
And the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union saw the army, along with many other areas of society, fall into a depressed and penniless state.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the principal foreign policy and intelligence institutions of the United States considered that communism had disappeared.
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