The Cold War in my understanding was more of a geopolitical and economical war, and less to do with ideology. All of American efforts of containment were to protect open markets in Europe and maintain laissez-faire policies in Europe, which would economically benefit America. Communism would prevent open markets and laussez-faire policies, which is why the Marshall plan and Trumine Doctrine was implemeted.

But America joining the Vietnam War makes no sense to me. How could it benefit America?

title asks it all i’m trying to see if there are journal or diary records from her. is there a good resource for this?

Was sunday a thing in the USSR and his allies? Was it the day where you could "relax"?. Sorry if this question is stupid

Who was popularly percieved as the "embodiment of evil" before WWII?

How did feudalism arise from the fall of the Roman Empire?

I've come across several more popular history websites and other sources discussing the history and influence of alcohol in Russian history.

Many of them bring up 'vodka taxes' which were abandoned and reinstituted over several centuries all the way up until the 1970s at latest.

The revenues from these taxes are often cited as making up anywhere from 30% to 45% of the governments revenue at various points. Obviously that's a huge number.

Some popular sources (The Dictators Handbook amongst others) Cite Czar Nicholas's 'Vodka Ban' during the first World War as being disastrous to the war effort and the nation's finances, effectively eliminating what was allegedly 30% of the state's revenue at the time. Some claim that this helped precipitate the success of the revolution due to the inability to effectively pay the army (causing them to join the people and/or not stop them).

Later, the re-introduction of legal vodka and its tax is sometimes credited as being a critical aspect in the financing of the state's modernization program.

#To what extend did these 'Vodka Taxes' really account for state revenue and were they really as influential on Russian history as sometimes cited?

From what i was able to find the PTRD-41 was able to penetrate the sides of early war german tanks like panzer 3s and 4s.

But could it harm a stug? Specifically the stuG lll ausf. G.

If so are there any documents that have been translated into other languages?

Hi! i saw a documentary a few years back, it was about how peoples clothes would be cleaner when washed in rivers... somehow related to death? i dont remember how exactly it had to do with death but it was quite morbid. Maybe it had something to do with ashes or the holocaust, i honestly cant tell/am probably mixing up things.

Would anyone know of something like this? sorry for the ridiculously unprecise question..

We know that from the 30s, soviet film started taking a more active role in soviet culture. Circus is cited as being massively popular, especially with regards to how well known Wide is my Motherland became as a song. Solzhenitsyn's One Day makes a reference to an Eisenstein film.

After the war, more blatant propaganda films like the Fall of Berlin were produced. All in all, soviet film was rather well funded from the 30s onwards, despite the country only being widely electrified in the very late 20s.

So how available was film and cinema to the soviet population? Was there a notable division between the presence of film in rural and urban popular culture (I assume yes)? Did any cinemagoer culture develop?

Could someone even get home insurance in conflict areas or was there a public fund available to rehouse people?

When a priest decided to become protestant what happened to the actual church building? Did he stay with it? Did he abandon it? Same with any land the local church might have held. When a bishop went rogue? What happened to the church estates.

Were there any legal challenges about the ownership of church property at the time or even later when the dust settled?

How did we come to have some Catholic and some protestants churches today? Did the catholic church keep or reacquire some of their old churches or went and build new.

Are there any issues that pertain even to this day?

I've read that as many as 90% of Native Americans were killed off by Old World diseases. I know that the science behind infectious diseases wasn't known at the time. But if I saw my tribe being decimated by a mysterious illness shortly the arrival of strange foreigners, it wouldn't take me long to put two and two together. I would probably assume they were harbingers of a divine plague or were poisoning us somehow. Did any tribe try to avoid settlers because of fear of diseases?

Hello, I’m doing a project in a history class for college, and I’ve chosen to do something pertaining to Sparta’s military culture. I originally wanted to compare the Spirit of Sparta, as derived from Leonidas and the 300, with that of the Carolean Army in the Swedish Empire. I’m not asking for people to do my assignment, however I am asking if anyone knows of any sources that could help me complete this project, or direct me to a different culture also impacted by Sparta.

In essence, I need sources to prove Sparta’s influence as an underdog, and the “death and glory” spirit, on other cultures.