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Mining and plantation agriculture were labor-intensive, but the population had collapsed precipitously upon contact with Europe, owing to some combination of war, disease, oppression, and the disruption of livelihoods.
But, given the profound uncertainty of a world in flux, as well as the dangers of miscalculation as the Soviet empire collapsed, prudent management trumped grand visions.
Many are shocked that the government collapsed and had to call a new election only two months after taking office.
In the 1920’s and 1930’s, Germany’s traditional Christian values and culture had collapsed under the attack of two atheist ideologies: communism and Nazism.
Lepper's supporters are not the poor and excluded, but are remnants of the lower Communist nomenclatura (the apparatchiks too stupid to steal as Communism collapsed) and those who made money during the grey period of 1989-1991, when state controls were practically nonexistent and when all that you needed to make money was a truck and enough petrol to drive to Berlin.
The house of cards has now collapsed.ampnbsp;
Morale and functional capacity collapsed along with spending.
And, as in Ukraine and China, the affected firms’ output quickly collapsed.
Japan waited almost two years after its asset bubble collapsed to ease monetary policy and provide a fiscal stimulus, whereas in the US both steps came early.
One such issue was the so-called Free-Trade Area of the Americas, which was proposed by former US President George H.W. Bush in 1990, and then collapsed at the Mar del Plata summit in Argentina in 2005.
Latvia’s government increased taxes during the bust to keep revenues roughly constant as a share of GDP, but a sizeable fiscal deficit emerged nonetheless as social-security expenditure, such as unemployment benefits, soared while demand and output collapsed.
As trade links with the former Soviet world collapsed, most of these giant firms collapsed.
This is precisely what happened when the interbank market froze after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.
George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post-war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest mistake in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.
Similarly, global investment has collapsed since the 2008 financial crisis (though not in China), lowering potential growth.
In Libya, Mali, and Afghanistan, states have collapsed or are at risk of failing.
In 2009, as trade collapsed and unemployment rose dramatically, the world came together for the first time in the G-20 to prevent a great recession from spiraling into a great depression.
And the conflict in Ukraine mobilizes the long-simmering frustration felt by ethnic Russians who were left behind when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis followed a sudden stop of capital inflows to Asia, and global short-term lending suddenly dried up after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, causing the Great Recession.
Country after country turned inward; by 1933, world trade collapsed to one-third its 1929 level.
Even those countries that were better prepared were made painfully aware of the after-effects of crisis: export markets collapsed, commodity prices fell, and credit markets seized up.
It was Serbia, Yugoslavia’s largest federal unit, which, led by Slobodan Milosevic, triggered the great Balkans crisis and caused numerous wars and “ethnic cleansings” as the federation collapsed at the start of the 1990’s.
Amalrik was right, and the regime established since 2000 by Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to fall apart – perhaps this year – for the same reason that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
As incomes declined, other domestic sectors collapsed.
In fact, Greek export earnings in 2013, at €53 billion, were actually €3 billion lower than in 2008, even after domestic demand collapsed.
After all, Putin had been a protegé of Anatoly Sobchak, the liberal mayor of St. Petersburg as communism collapsed.
The financial house of cards collapsed.
No surprise, then, that Gazprom’s market capitalization has collapsed from a peak of $369 billion in May 2008 to some $55 billion today.
But, contrary to his expectations, communism collapsed altogether, and the khrushchevki remained, having patiently withstood Russia’s winters, political and meteorological.
Slouching Towards EuropeWhen communism in Eastern Europe collapsed, the region's new democratic leaders agreed that joining the European Union--fast--must be their priority.
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