of 1972 was to justify the dictatorship of Kim il song, the old socialist constitution of 1992 was for succession of Kim jong il. In newly revised constitution in 2009, they deleted ‘communism’ word and added ‘songun ideology’ to strengthen the power base of Kim jung il. Based on the newest constitution, there are Supreme People’s Assembly, National Defense Commission, standing Committe
Pre- Gorbachev Soviet- Vietnames Discord
To answer the aforesaid question, we need evidence, above all, from the vietnamese and Russian archives, but it may also be useful to study the declassified reports of the East European Communist diplomats who were accredited to Hanoi in the 1980s. Namely, the Hungarian diplomats whose reports I read managed to collect an impressive amount of confiden
“SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS” :
The degree of the extent of these characteristics go far beyond socio-economic realms. In our presentation and subsequent essay, we will explain how these characteristics have played a key role in defining a new form of cultural rebellion: SHANZHAI
THESIS:
CHINA’S DILEMMA: WILL CHINA ADHERE TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OR YIELD TO THE NEW
of testing examined 795 distinct URLs containing sexually explicit images.
These URLs had been used as the basis for a portion of Benjamin Edelman’s expert testimony in
Multnomah County Public Library, et al. v. United States (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/
edelman/mul-v-us/). He generated this list by collecting all 797 results from Google listings in
response to an October 2001 Web
of the problems which the Vietnamese reformers had to solve in late 1980s - a high inflation rate, a persistent budget imbalance, a heavy dependence on imports and foreign assistance, and an economic embargo - were closely interlocked with Hanoi's foreign relations. Vietnam's military conflicts with Kampuchea and China(1978-1979) led to massive defense spending, which in turn deepened the country