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The Sykes-Picot Agreement And Russia

For almost four centuries – from the beginning of the 16th century until the end of World War I – most Arab countries were represented by Vilayets (provinces) of the Ottoman Empire while the western part of the Arab East was by that time already under the rule of colonial powers, England and France. In 1916, London and Paris secretly ...

23.08.2016

History’s Revenge: Why the USSR’s Collapse Is Like WWI

The world has changed enormously in the nearly 23 years since the collapse of the USSR. Can we finally breathe a sigh of relief and stop drawing scary parallels with World War I? World War I, one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the 20th century, broke out a hundred years ago, in August of 1914. Apart from the millions killed, the war destroyed four empires – Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and German....

12.08.2014

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