Complex Interplay of Eastern Bloc SMEs Trade Credit Determinants: Changes due to the Global Financial Crisis by Tamara Teplova, Tatiana Sokolova, Kristina Galenskaya, Mariya Gubareva

“…The geographical focus of this paper covers 18 former Eastern bloc countries. The data sample comprises opinions of the SMEs top managers relative to the trade credit financing. …”
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PROBLEMS OF INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE TRANSITION OF EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES TO MARKET ECONOMY: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED REGIONAL COUNTRIES by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Remzi Bulut

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How the Public in the US Responded to Javanese and Balinese Performing Arts? by Rafngi Mufidah, Dhanang Respati Puguh, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…It is of importance that from 1950s to 1960s, Indonesia had to adapt to the Cold War, which forced the developing countries to choose the Western or Eastern bloc in their foreign policy. Until the beginning of the 1960s, Indonesia tended to be with the Eastern bloc. …”
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Velká krize kolektivizace v Pardubickém kraji by Pavel Boštík

“… After Stalin’s and Gottwald’s death in March 1953 political changes occurred in the states of Eastern Bloc. These essential changes were called the New Course, which put emphasis on political liberation of regimes and an increase of standard of living. …”
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Political Experience in Economic and Social Transformation by Christoph Bergner

“…The revolutionary upheaval of 1989-90 led to the formulation of common economic and social models in the former Eastern bloc countries. The implementation of these transformation goals proved difficult in former socialist countries and met with little success. …”
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The Impact of “China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation” and “Belt and Road Initiative” on Sino-Albanian Relations by Rahman NURDUN

“…The end of WW II in 1945 did not usher in a new era of lasting peaceful environment but brought in confrontations between two opposite camps based on two different ideologies and value systems: One was US-led Western industrialized countries in favor of democratic systems; another was Soviet Union dominated Eastern Bloc countries upholding socialism. China and Albania belong to the latter camp, but split with the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin due to Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization stance. …”
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Cold War as Social Conflict, Iron Curtains and Application of Dѐtente Policy as Cold War Concept by Effiong Ekpo, Udeoji Ebele Angela

“…The paper arrives at the conclusion that iron curtain became prominence as most states of the eastern bloc of the iron curtain developed their own international economic and military aliens. …”
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020 by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The concept became popular after the end of the Cold War when the defense of religion against socialistatheist ideas had lost its relevance due to political (the collapse of the Eastern bloc) and cultural (the growing importance of religion in many non-Western countries of the world) reasons. …”
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Development of financial performance of food retailers as an attribute behind the increase of food insecurity in selected Central and Eastern European Countries by Oksana Dubanych, Jan Vavřina, Josef Polák

“…This article traces the research gap in addressing food insecurity by focusing on the role of food retail chains in the former “Eastern Bloc” in light of unprecedented food price inflation and the resulting scale of demand for the services of food banks. …”
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