Initially, Stalin directed systems in the Eastern Bloc countries that rejected Western institutional characteristics of market economies, democratic governance ( dubbed " bourgeois democracy " in Soviet parlance ) and the rule of law subduing discretional intervention by the state.

Initially intended as tools to bolster the Soviet economy, the policies of perestroika and glasnost soon led to unintended consequences.

Initially this meant the construction of three zones of occupation, i. e., American, British, and Soviet.

Initially governed in four sectors controlled by the four Allied powers ( United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union ), tensions of the Cold War escalated until the Soviet forces implemented the Berlin Blockade, which the Western allies relieved with the dramatic airlift.

Initially, the program focused on large scale systems designed to defeat a Soviet offensive strike.

Initially very popular for his reforms and seeking a " Polish way to socialism ", and beginning an era known as Gomułka's thaw, he came under Soviet pressure.

Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

Initially, Ceaușescu became a popular figure in Romania and also in the Western World, due to his independent foreign policy, challenging the authority of the Soviet Union.

Initially, Zaire's relationship with the People's Republic of China was no better than its relationship with the Soviet Union.

Initially, Stalin directed systems that rejected Western institutional characteristics of market economies, democratic governance ( dubbed " bourgeois democracy " in Soviet parlance ) and the rule of law subduing discretional intervention by the state.

Initially, the T-80 was confused with the Soviet T-72 by some Western analysts, but the T-80 and T-72 are mechanically very different.

Initially the Germans advanced with great ease and nearly captured Moscow, also laying siege to Leningrad, but soon found themselves fighting the harsh Russian winter as well as stiffer Soviet resistance, and their advance ground to a halt at Stalingrad in early 1943.

Initially his command covered India and Iraq so that within a month of taking charge he launched Iraqforce to invade Persia in co-operation with the Russians in order to secure the oilfields and secure lines of communication to the Soviet Union.

Initially the NSG had seven members: Canada, West Germany, France, Japan, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Initially, the Far Eastern Republic comprised only the area around Verkhne-Udinsk, but during the Summer of 1920, the Soviet government of the Amur territory agreed to join.

Initially a personal favourite of Stalin, Tito led the left-wing opposition to the Nazi occupation during the war, then met with the Soviet leadership several times immediately after the war to negotiate the future of Yugoslavia.

Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Berkman quickly voiced his opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices.

Initially imprisoned in Butyrki prison in Moscow, he was not released following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement as the Soviet authorities argued that he was not a Pole but rather a Swiss citizen and hence the Amnesty for Polish citizens in the Soviet Union did not apply to him.

Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, and deploying newly raised reserve armies as well as bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts.

Initially the militia headed by Voskoboinik numbered no more than 200 men and was confined to assisting the Germans in conducting their different activities, including numerous murders of the civil population, loyal or accused of loyalty to the Soviet authorities or to Soviet partisans.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

Initially denying the existence of a so-called " Category I " admissions program, university President B. Joseph " Joe " White and Chancellor Richard Herman later admitted that there were instances of preferential treatment.

Initially, Wanger considered Gig Young, Dick Powell, Joseph Cotten and several others for the role of Miles.

Initially, Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758 – 1828 ) claimed his very popular theory of Phrenology and localization of function in the brain, but it was attacked by Pierre Flourens ( 1794 – 1867 ) who claimed that, by careful ablation of various brain regions, he had disproved Gall's hypotheses.

Initially, after the church's formation on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith referred to himself as merely " an apostle of Jesus Christ, and elder of the church.

Initially, such rulers of Europe as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially, Eastman had supported Senator Joseph McCarthy, but he soon came to believe that the anti-Communist movement was " taken over by reactionary forces.

Initially, Napoleon ’ s brother Joseph Bonaparte ruled Naples.

Initially, the rulers of Europe, such Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially conceived as an adjunct to the Jagd-Kommando units and placed under the command of Otto Skorzeny, the idea was later appropriated by Joseph Goebbels to represent the general rising up of the German people to defend against foreign invasion.

Initially popular among high-ranking statesmen and even the royal court, the sect was persecuted by hegumen Joseph Volotsky and Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod.

Initially discovered, trained and managed by Joseph Tolley at Tolley's famous Rochdale Boxing Club, reference the Rochdale thunder bolt.

Initially, architect Joseph Nathaniel French of Albert Kahn Associates planned for a complex of three buildings, with two 30-story structures flanking a 60-story tower.

Initially homsechooled, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Joseph Brunault on June 12, 1927 after attending the Seminary of Quebec from 1915 to 1923.

Initially, he had a favourable opinion of the reforms of the Emperor Joseph II, but he was critical of his centralist policies as well as of his neglection of the various regional languages in the Habsburg Empire.

Initially, SJA was an all-male elementary school ; and in 1926 a three-story building was constructed, known as the " Old Saint Joseph ," where the International Bank of Commerce now stands in downtown.

Initially a milita, under the instruction of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Henry Banks they formed the core of the New Zealand Army following successful service in the Boer Wars.

Initially the engineer for the line was George Stephenson, but he was replaced by Joseph Locke, Stephenson's pupil and assistant.

Initially called Joseph Lucas & Son from 1882 it was based in Little King Street, later Great King Street Birmingham.

* Hehalutz: 1918 – Initially established in Russia under Joseph Trumpeldor to prepare potential olim for labour and pioneering work.

Initially reluctant, Joseph drives Lewis to Bodega Bay to talk to Juan Bautista who was the last cyborg to see Mendoza.