Sentence examples for soviet implosion from inspiring English sources

Following the Soviet implosion, the Warsaw Pact (Russia's Nato equivalent) was wound up.

The Soviet implosion brought new artistic freedoms, but left intellectuals like Mr. Chkhartishvili struggling to survive in a newly capitalistic world.

Esko Aho, a former Finnish prime minister who brought in liberalisation and tax reforms, believes the shock of the Soviet implosion brought unexpected benefits: "We were lucky to have problems in the early 1990s; we had to reform our economy and society".With the help of investments in export industries and hi-tech, exports as a share of GDP doubled to 40% in the ten years to 2001.

The core debate is: can Iran manage a Chinese-style reform where its Islamic hierarchy endures through change, or does opening to America equal Soviet-style implosion?

Experiencing the Soviet empire's implosion from the East German side of the wall, she has pointed to Mr. Reagan's strength and said "it was exactly this strength that led to the collapse of socialism and to Germany's reunification").

Victory would come not on the battlefield nor even by diplomacy but by the implosion of the Soviet system.

The horror thriller "Night Watch," produced by Channel One, in 2004, was among the first big-budget, Hollywood-style productions after the implosion of the Soviet film industry.

The implosion of the Soviet empire, and the war in Bosnia (1992-96) in which France and Britain were prime movers, forced the recognition that military involvement in European conflicts was no longer going to be the default mode of American strategy.

With the end of the cold war and the implosion of the Soviet empire, many Americans have taken to wallowing in complacency: history has rendered its timeless verdict on the virility of American society and its institutions.

Perhaps is the recent crisis a driving moment, as also the implosion of the Soviet Empire, to fasten this process – but it may also lead to the contrary, as we see in England.

A meaningful interpretation of the dynamics of recent momentous historical changes - most notably the unexpected and surprising implosion of the Soviet empire in 1989-1990 - may be obtained by recombining aspects of the sociology of religion analyses of Weber and Durkheim.