All Posts Tagged With: "Soviet Union"
The Lasting Legacy of the Reagan Revolution
Former President Ronald Reagan passed away June 5 at the age of 93. Both while he was in office, from 1981 to 1989, and in the years since, Reagan has been loved and adored by many on “the right” and hated and ridiculed by most on “the left.” During his years as president he represented [...]
1Jul2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2003
Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939–1941 by Albert L. Weeks Rowman & Littlefield • 2002 • 201 pages • $60 hardcover; 24.95 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling For most of the period since the end of World War II the general interpretation about the role of the Soviet Union in the events leading up to the beginning of [...]
1Dec2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rise of the West
Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm. Not even those at the peaks of social status and political power could enjoy the creature comforts and consumer delights that “poor” people take for granted in the West today. At times, certain populations fared somewhat better—in ancient Greece [...]
1Jul2002 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rule of Law and Freedom in Emerging Democracies: A Madisonian Perspective
James Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. The collapse of communism in 1989 in Eastern and Central Europe, and the fall of the Soviet Union two years later, have increased the number of democracies in the world to a total of 120. Of those, however, only 85 are classified as [...]
1Aug2001 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | ContinuedEveryday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Oxford University Press • 1999 • 288 pages • $27.50 Free people are a peculiar lot. Eventually their lives become so leisurely that they manufacture unnecessary hardships purely for the exercise or the entertainment found in such challenges. Witness the super-successful television show, “Survivor,” in which contestants willingly forsook all modern conveniences simply to show [...]
1Feb2001 | Drew Cline | 20 comments | ContinuedAmerica in East Asia
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Cold War ended a decade ago, but America’s defense posture has changed little, especially in East Asia. Washington policymakers seem determined [...]
1May2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThey Were Right
“Americans need to know the history of American anticommunism if they are to understand the great role they have played in ridding the world of the most murderous of the twentieth century totalitarians.” —Richard Gid Powers[1] On October 16, 1961, thousands of people packed the Hollywood Bowl. The occasion was not a rock concert or [...]
1Sep1999 | Mark Skousen | 2 comments | ContinuedEducational Savior?
Daniel Hager is a freelance writer in Lansing, Michigan. George S. Counts is not a widely recognized figure in twentieth-century American education, but he was extremely influential. Twenty-five years after his death, the damage caused by this one-time president of the American Federation of Teachers lives on. The first step in counteracting his effects is [...]
1Jun1999 | Daniel Hager | 2 comments | ContinuedMafia Capitalism or Red Legacy?
Gary Dempsey is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Aaron Lukas is an analyst at Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. Russia is experiencing an organized crime epidemic. Its interior ministry says there are now more than 9,000 criminal organizations operating inside the country, employing nearly 100,000 people, or about [...]
1Aug1998 | Gary Dempsey | 0 comments | ContinuedA Letter from Russia
Dear Readers of The Freeman, Hello, I am Grigory (Greg), whom you might remember from a previous issue of The Freeman (“Letters From Russia,” October 1997). First, I should say I have read several issues of The Freeman, which I received from my friend Dennis Peterson, and it has been a real eye-opener to me [...]
1Aug1998 | Grigory Shishatsky | 3 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom and Economic Growth
One of the most enduring questions in economics is what causes economies to grow. The full title of Adam Smith’s well-known treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, clearly shows that the causes of prosperity were Smith’s primary concern. He concluded that free markets, the protection [...]
1Feb1998 | Randall G. Holcombe | 26 comments | ContinuedLetters from Russia
Mr. Peterson is a homeschooling parent and a frequent contributor to The Freeman, Teaching Home, and other periodicals. Grigory enjoyed studying English. He also wanted to write, especially if it would help him improve his English. One day, near the end of 1979, his love of the language and his desire to write led to [...]
1Oct1997 | Dennis L. Peterson | 1 comment | ContinuedReflections on a Failure
Mr. Smith is a freelance writer residing in Santa Maria, California. The waning days of the twentieth century will undoubtedly bring a spate of books and articles on the people and events that shaped the era. Certainly the two world wars will be high on the list for examination, along with radio and television, air [...]
1Oct1997 | Donald G. Smith | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Travels with a Hungry Bear: A Journey to the Russian Heartland by Mark Kramer
Dr. Pasour is professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Mark Kramer, on assignment for the New York Times Magazine, visited the Soviet Union several times, beginning in 1987, to explore its well-known agricultural problems. This account of Kramer’s journeys shows why neither perestroika nor privatization efforts following the breakup [...]
1Feb1997 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Political History of Economic Reform in Russia, 1985-1994
Dr. Maltsev is associate professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union was a surprise only to the CIA, Sovietologists, and fellow travelers of Communism in the West. For people like Dr. Vladimir Mau, who followed the direction of economic and political developments in the USSR [...]
1Aug1996 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle?
The post-war Asian economic miracle has come as a great shock to the economics profession. In my review of the top-ten textbooks (Economics on Trial, Irwin, 1993), few economists tell the wonders of Japanese prosperity and none reveals the secrets of the Four Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan) or the newly industrialized economies (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand).
1Jul1996 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | ContinuedThe World in the Grip of an Idea Revisited
The notion of a work under the title The World in the Grip of an Idea began to take shape in my mind in 1976, and I began the writing of it in the fall of that year (which was also the thirtieth anniversary of FEE). A somewhat amended and expanded version was published as [...]
1May1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | Continued-
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