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The objective of the research was to study Russian State and Orthodox church relations in the context of world war II and the early post-war years. The line of this article is due to the important role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the history, modern political and cultural life of Russia. In this sense, the period of State-Church relations in the USSR during world war II, known in Russia as a great patriotic war, is of great scientific interest because it was the time when the government was forced to make adjustments to its religion policy. Methodologically based on a wide range of documentary sources, the authors of the article have identified the place and role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the foreign policy of the USSR during the approach. In this sense, it is felt that the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in building relations with the allies of the anti-Hitler coalition and its place in the expansion of the Soviet political system in Eastern Europe was of paramount importance as a foreign policy factor.

Translated from the French by Tomás Segovia.

El articulo analiza las principales instancias y las estrategias aplicadas en el proceso de redefinicion de las relaciones bilaterales entre Uruguay y la URSS a partir del advenimiento del gobierno democratico en Uruguay, con las elecciones de 1984. Se hace hincapie en los convenios referidos a la pesca, servicios portuarios y aeronavegacion, y se sostiene que la posterior concrecion de un acuerdo comercial se debio tanto a un cambio en la estrategia negociadora uruguaya como al interes sovietico en mejorar las relaciones con este pais, de buena proyeccion internacional

The article analyzes the Cuban economy from 960 until the fall of the Soviet Union. It shows that after abolishing private ownership of the means of production at the beginning of the revolutionary period, Cuba could not establish a planning system because of Fidel Castro's widespread intervention. The economic consequences were grave. Only the enormous economic aid received from the Soviet Union ensured the survival of the Cuban revolution and the implementation of the System of Direction and Planning of the Economy (SDPE), which was successively dismantled during the rectification process. What happened in Cuba during this period seems to have been an endemic problem of its political system, in which there was no effective counterweight to the comandante en jefe, on whom all major political and economic decisions depended. That problem was the main reason for Cuba's poor economic performance.

Covers theoretical aspects.

Examines conceptual changes in Soviet foreign policy since 1989, with particular reference to relations with Mexico.