Where are the Romas from?
northern India
The Roma are an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India and today live worldwide, principally in Europe. Most Roma speak some form of Romany.
Why did the Roma people migrate?
The Romani began to leave India about 1,000 years ago. They probably left to escape the invasion of Afghan general Mahmud of Ghazni early in the 11th century. The Romani did not have a strong tradition of written or oral history, so scholars studied their language to piece together the path of their migration.
What was life like in the Soviet Union in 1960s?
The USSR? Five million. People typically had to wait four to six years, and often as long as ten, to get one. There was 30x as much typhoid, 20x as much measles, and cancer detection rates were half as good as in the United States. Life expectancy actually fell in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s.
What was life like for poor people in the USSR?
By the US poverty measure, well over half of the Soviet population were poor. Around a quarter could not afford a winter hat or coat, which cost an entire month’s wages on average (the equivalent of £1700 in UK terms). Read the book here.
What was the policy of detente between the US and the USSR?
The Soviet Union and the United States stayed far apart during the next three decades of superpower conflict and the nuclear and missile arms race. Beginning in the early 1970s, the Soviet regime proclaimed a policy of détente and sought increased economic cooperation and disarmament negotiations with the West.
Why study the consequences of the collapse of the USSR?
By studying the consequences of the collapse of the USSR, students today can gain an understanding of how the end of the Cold War affected U.S. and Soviet relationships, and how it led to the current political and economic climate between the two countries.