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How the Death of the Soviet Union Transformed the Middle East


How the Death of the Soviet Union Transformed the Middle East

The fall of the Soviet empire ushered in the end of totalitarian tyranny, and a promise of new world order, where the sovereignty of small states mattered.

The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The ...

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have fundamentally altered the rules of the game in Middle East politics.

A Brief Guide to Russia's Return to the Middle East

Using its success in Syria as a springboard, Russia has transformed old relationships throughout the region and forged new ones. The Kremlin ...

Soviet Union ‑ Countries, Cold War & Collapse | HISTORY

During his reign—which lasted until his death in 1953—Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from an agrarian society to an industrial and military ...

Soviet Policy in the Middle East - jstor

in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East , Gorbachev is not yet in a position to transform this ... Middle East context, the Soviet Union was widely blamed by the ...

MERIA: The PLO and Iraq in the Twilight of Soviet Foreign Policy

The rethinking of Soviet politics and strategy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 had an important effect on Moscow's Middle East policy and on its ...

Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War | Britannica

Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War: After Stalin's death in 1953, a power struggle for leadership ensued, which was won by Nikita Khrushchev.

The Soviet Roots of Putin's Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East

Indeed, the initial Soviet reaction to the coup that overthrew Farouk was negative. ... The Soviet Union also succeeded in reviving its relations ...

Soviet Policy in the Middle East - MARS

in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, Gorbachev is not yet in a position to transform this ... Labour party to be more receptive to the Soviet Union's. Middle ...

United States Relations with Russia: The Cold War - state.gov

... transformed into Communist "People's Republics" with strong ties to the Soviet Union. ... Middle East. Ford and Brezhnev issued a joint statement on strategic ...

Arab Cold War - Wikipedia

The Arab Cold War was a political rivalry in the Arab world from the early 1950s to the late 1970s and a part of the wider Cold War.

Russia and the Middle East: A Cold War Paradigm? - jstor

Middle East. Another area of significant difference is in the role accorded to economic factors in. Russia's foreign policy. Whereas the Soviet Union ...

Post-Soviet Russia | Britannica

Russia - Post-Soviet Russia: The U.S.S.R. legally ceased to exist on December 31, 1991. The new state, called the Russian Federation, set off on the road to ...

The War That Remade the Middle East | Foreign Affairs

Russia · China · United States · Iran · Iraq · Israel · India · North Korea ... How Washington Can Stabilize a Transformed Region. By Maria ...

How the Six-Day War of 1967 transformed the Middle East

The genesis of these tensions lay in the very establishment of Israel, in which thousands of Palestinian Arabs were killed and displaced, and ...

Anwar al-Sadat: Transforming the Middle East | Department of History

In short, Sadat broke Egypt's dependence on the Soviet Union, established strong relations with the United States, and recognized the state ...

The Middle East - Global Connections . Timeline | PBS

... death of Ali Razmara. ... The republicans are backed by Egypt and the Soviet Union, and the imam's supporters are backed by Saudi Arabia and Britain.

The 1967 Six-Day War | Wilson Center

Fifty years ago, war transformed the Middle East. Six memorable days, known to Israelis as the Six-Day War and to Arabs and others as the 1967 War, redrew ...

Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics already departing the Union and Gorbachev continuing the waning of centralized power, ...

World Wars: Reform, Coup and Collapse: The End of the Soviet State

But the sequence was that the Soviet Union was first reformed, then transformed, and then disintegrated all within the space of six-and-a-half ...