The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. "From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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... USSR devoted a large share of the state budget ( 12-16 percent ) to defense expenditures for much of the 1920s . That share fell away during the early years of the first Five - Year Plan , by which time the regular Soviet armed forces ...
... USSR devoted a large share of the state budget ( 12-16 percent ) to defense expenditures for much of the 1920s . That share fell away during the early years of the first Five - Year Plan , by which time the regular Soviet armed forces ...
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... USSR.238 With a total population in 1983 significantly larger than the United States ' and almost exactly the same as Russia's - each having 272 million - the ten - member EEC had a substantially bigger GNP and share of world ...
... USSR.238 With a total population in 1983 significantly larger than the United States ' and almost exactly the same as Russia's - each having 272 million - the ten - member EEC had a substantially bigger GNP and share of world ...
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... USSR , p . 133 ; Nove , Economic History of the USSR , pp . 340 , 387 ; J. P. Nettl , The Soviet Achievement ( London , 1967 ) , ch . 6 . 240. Munting , Economic Development of the USSR , p . 133 . 241. The problems of Soviet ...
... USSR , p . 133 ; Nove , Economic History of the USSR , pp . 340 , 387 ; J. P. Nettl , The Soviet Achievement ( London , 1967 ) , ch . 6 . 240. Munting , Economic Development of the USSR , p . 133 . 241. The problems of Soviet ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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