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Living Standards in the USSR During the Interwar Period

"How was life in the Soviet Union in the interwar period? The two interwar decades fall into the years of relative prosperity of the mid-1920s; the years of tumult and disaster (1929–1938) with the famines of 1932–1933..." – By Ilya B. Voskoboynikov

The Impact of Brexit

"Brexit resulted in major changes to the United Kingdom’s economic relationship with the European Union. The U.K.–E.U. Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides for tariff-free trade but has also resulted in the introduction of customs controls and various non-tariff barriers..." – By Jonathan Portes

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