Darkness at Noon | Compare and Contrast

  • 1930s: The USSR is the first Communist state in the world, in the precursory stages to a half-century of Cold War with the United States.

    Today: Russia is now a capitalist democracy with a freely elected Federal Assembly. The Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from capitalist West Germany fell in 1989, and the USSR officially collapsed in 1991.

  • 1930s: The Russian economy has failed to recover from the Revolution. There are shortages of...

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