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Secretary Of State Department Of State
1,737 wordsIn August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), charged that Alger Hiss, was a Communist spy. Chambers claimed that he and Hiss had belonged to the same espionage group and that Hiss had given him secret State Department documents. This group was a network of American spies recruited by the Soviet Union to collect useful information for Moscow. Alger Hiss was a Harvard-educated lawyer and a distinguished Washington figure...
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The Fall Of Roman Empire
1,816 wordsThe Roman Empire at its peak governed over most of the Eastern world. After the death of Julius Caesar, who had destroyed the Roman Republic, an empire was the easiest was to keep the state going (Kagan- 1998 -pg. 92). An empire is rule by an emperor, whose range of power is virtually unlimited (Grant- 1990 -pg. 164). Because of the Emperors supreme power, careful selection of these persons is necessary. Changes in the Emperor selection process lead to a selection of leaders who were distracted ...
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Million Metric Tons Five Year Plan
550 wordsStalin was born in 1879 and died 1953. He was the leader of Russia and wanted to industrialize it because they were behind most of the other countries. A quote that Stalin made was "We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us!" In order to bring Russia up to the current level of industry he employed a variety of different ideas to help Russia. Stalin was a tyrannical leader and did what he had to do to keep Russia fro...
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Soviet Union Prime Minister
1,793 words... creamy be dismissed and that Khrushchev take his place. The Ukrainians refused. Molotov suggested that the Ukrainians should go to Moscow to discuss the matter with the Soviet Central Committee and they agreed. Once in Moscow they were seen by Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich. It is not known what went on at the meeting, but soon afterwards Koiser disappeared, and Khrushchev was announced to be his successor as First Secretary of the Ukraine. As well as Koiser, most senior Party officials from...
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Simon Wiesenthal Concentration Camps
1,823 wordsPrejudices: We all have them. They are part of every one. We all prejudge people. We all must over come them. The Nazis could not. With the help of Hitler, their prejudices swept over the world like a disease. They beat and hurt any Jews they could find. The most horrible event in mankind happened because of their prejudices. This, of coarse, was the Holocaust. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. This bone chilling defin...
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Decolonization In The Middle East And Africa
865 wordsAfrica dealt with gaining its independence and recovering from internal conflict. Since most of Africa was colonies of European, colonized Africa tried hard to gain its independence and organized together against Europe. Even though there were organized up rising against Europe, most of these organizations were independent tribes. These tribes were divided by religion (Muslims in the north and Christians and animists in the south) and by language. The division between the tribes was so wide spre...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4,448 wordsA society is, by definition, a group of people with similar interests, beliefs, and ways of life, residing and perpetuating in a specific area. Societies include people, who are organized into families, tight-knit groups of friends, and acquaintances. Individuals within a society possess certain religious affiliations, and are associated with specific institutions and workplaces. This idea of a community allows human beings to act upon their social predispositions, while still submitting to lead...
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Nikita Khrushchev Joseph Stalin
1,451 wordsPolitics has always been about image. A good image leads to power, it's that simple. Sometimes it is hard to draw the line between a leader who is genuinely interested in improving the lives of his people and one that is interested in filling a few more pages of the already crowded History book. A good example of this is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its transition time between 1953 and 1964. The tyrannical rule of Joseph Stalin in the USSR was finally over, and the nation sought a ...
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Rise To Power Group Of People
1,511 words... g Communism from its roots. Revolts broke out against the Communist governments in Poland and Hungary, and the USSR spent money to thwart these disturbances which might have helped to bolster Capitalism in the nearby areas. Now that the scene has been established, we shall look deeper to find possible reasons for why Destalinazation started and the impact that it had on Khrushchev and the nation. Joseph Stalin was probably one of the smartest leaders in keeping his people under an iron fist....
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World War One Leon Trotsky
873 wordsGeorge Orwell was a great writer; he created a book with many different qualities. Animal Farm is an allegory, fable, and a satire. He made the characters in the novel relate to real people and events in history. Examples such allegory would be Animalism compared with Communism, Snowball compared with Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon compared to Joseph Stalin. Animalism in many ways does symbolize Communism. Animalism for the animals would be a perfect land, no rich, no poor, and everyone is equal. Th...
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Animal Farm Compared To The Russian Revolution
1,157 wordsEducation is not as prominent in the book as during the Russian Revolution. In the book, education is mentioned when Snowball finds old spelling books, once belonging to Mr. Jones. He begins to teach himself, followed by the other pigs, and finally he helps the other animals to read and write. Some of the not so intelligent animals find this quite taxing, whereas the pigs being the most intelligent, learn the fastest. Snowball is the most interested in educating the animals, and the well being o...
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Soviet Socialist Republics Soviet Union
724 wordsThe Soviet Union was a communist country with a totalitarian regime that existed from 1917 until 1991. The official name was The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R. ). The country stretched from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean. In its final years it consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia was by far the largest Republic in the Soviet Union in terms of both land area and population, and also dominated it politically and economically. The first leader of the ...
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Faith In God Fellow Prisoners
1,068 wordsNight is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who lives, at the book's opening, in his hometown of Sighet in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies Torah and the Cabbala, Jewish mysticism. His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrifying tale. The Gestapo (German secret police) took charge of his train, led everybody into the woods, and systematically butchered them. Nobody believes Moshe, who is taken...
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Tele Screen Secret Police
1,044 words... ending well back... being able to remain outside the range of the tele screen" trying to avoid being seen writing in the diary even though "nothing was illegal since there were no longer any laws." Winston thinks about how dangerous it is to allow your thoughts to wander when you are in public or facing the tele screen. Your facial expressions are watched closely and the wrong expression can have dire consequences. For example, looking disbelieving when a victory is announced would be face c...
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World War One Form Of Government
4,162 wordsHistory Of Turkish Occupation Of Northern Kurdistan. History Of Turkish Occupation Of Northern Kurdistan. History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan. Eric jensen Poli. Sci. (Third World Politics) 11 / 27 / 96 Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N. A. T. O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and its primary troubles stem from the past seven de...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,415 wordsCommunism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d? tat gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today? s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians? the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 s (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would live in ...
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Catherine The Great Alexander Iii
3,380 wordsTHE RUSSIAN MONARCHY For each generation to react against the generation before it is a characteristic of many reigning dynasties; but particularly of the Russian Imperial House in the century following the death of Catherine the Great, when autocratic Tsars alternated with Tsars who were liberal as inevitably as Fredericks alternated with Christians on the Throne of Denmark. Catherines son, Paul I, who reigned from 1796 to 1801, was autocratic; and it can often be said to have reacted against h...
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Three Main Characters Whites And Blacks
2,760 wordsLauren Howley English III The National Party introduced apartheid as part of their campaign in the 1948 elections, and with the National Party victory, apartheid became the governing political policy for South Africa until the early 1990 s. The word apartheid means separateness in the Afrikaans language and it describes the rigid racial division between the governing white minority population and the nonwhite majority population. During this time there were many different political views on the ...
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Ivan The Terrible Wife And Son
1,987 wordsIvan the Terrible was not always known as being terrible. When first reigning as Czar over Russia, he was a normal leader. It was after the five scars marking his journey through life that he had a mental breakdown and went out of control. Ivan was only three years old when his father, Vasili III, died in 1533. Since he was too young to reign, his mother Elena was made regent on his behalf. This was surprising because she was a woman, a commoner, and a foreigner by birth. Anxious to avoid a civi...
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