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Iran Contra Affair Marginal Tax Rates
1,409 wordsThe Reagan Tax Cuts and Foreign Policy During the 1980 s President Ronald Reagan's (our 40 th president from 1981 to 1989) domestic policy of a substantial tax cut led to greatly increased economic prosperity for our country. During Reagan's administration marked changes were made to the tax code and economic statistics showed a major change for the better. However, at the same time, the Democrats controlled the Congress and continued increased spending against Reagan's wishes. The Joint Economi...
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United States And Russia Missiles In Cuba
1,303 words... attack. After the failed Bay of Pigs on Cuba of 1961, by the United States, Castro believed that a second attack was certain. To provide some protection for his country, he approved Khrushchev's plan to place missiles in Cuba. By the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union was working quickly and secretly to build the missile installations on the island. For the United States the crisis began on October 15, 1962 when reconnaissance photographs were taken of Soviet missile installations under constr...
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Hua Guofeng Mao Zedong
1,302 wordsEconomic development in China from Mao till the opening of Chinese economy This big and highly populated country could be one of the strongest economic powers of the world. It owns rich natural resources, including coal, oil, iron and tungsten, as well as timber and sources of the electric power. Arable lands of China can supply almost the whole population. It was long time ago, when this country was famous for its dealers, handicrafts men and inventors. The Chinese scientists have presented com...
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Five Year Plans First World War
2,305 wordsBolshevik revolution The Bolshevik revolution occurred in November of 1917, its aim was to create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided into two distinct eras. Firstly, there was the period from 1917 - 1924, which included the decision to seize power, the civil war and a consolidation of power under the new economic policy. The second period occurred after Lenin's death, where oppo...
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Doesn T General Secretary
925 wordsThis definition is right and is fully accurate, but it only demonstrates the theory of communism and doesn^t explain how it really worked. It doesn^t say that the theory never worked out, because it is impossible to make it work. I am going to tell some things about communism in USSR where my parents lived all their lives, but when I was born it was already dying out. So, mostly everything that I am going to tell is based on what my parents and grandparents told me about life in USSR. Communism ...
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Communist Party General Secretary
317 wordsDeng Xiaoping was born in 1904, he was a Chinese Communist leader, who survived two purges to become the ruler of China after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Deng served the Communist party in various capacities, and participating in the Long March from 1934 to 1935. After the establishment of the Communist government in 1949, Deng moved up rapidly in the Communist rank under Mao's patronage, serving as vice premier in 1954 and general secretary of the party from 1956 to 1966. Deng distinguishe...
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Soviet Union Agricultural Sector
3,776 wordsThe history of the Soviet Union is complicated and fascinating. In the course of only seventy years this country has seen the development of the totally new system of state, economic growth, the growth of hopes for the brighter future, and then the sudden and expected by no one collapse of the whole system leading to chaos, wars, and confusion. One period is especially important in order to realize how did things finally started to change after the seventy years of blindly pursuing the dream of ...
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Five Year Plans Stalin
3,030 wordsJoanne Hawkins May 18 th 1998 HISTORY To what extent can the consolidation phase of the revolution (1923 - 1939) be called a revolution from above? Stalin? s rise to power and the subsequent introduction of his new industrially based Five Year economic plans in 1928 can be defined as a revolution from above. During the consolidation period between 1923 and 1939, he successfully industrialised Russia to such an extent that he had taken the nation from a backward, essentially peasant based society...
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Soviet Union Secret Police
2,736 wordsHow far was Stalinism the outcome of Leninist political practice? The political system which existed in the Soviet Union under Stalin was a system of terror. The purges of the 1930 s sent millions of Russians to their deaths or to the Gulags, the population was scared of the secret police, the NKVD, the forced collectivization of agriculture had wiped out a part of Russian society, the Kulaks. The show trials of the thirties had firmly established Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union. What r...
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Russian Social Democratic Communist Party
684 wordsRise to Power Stalin first became interested in politics when as a theology student; he began reading illegal the works of political philosopher Karl Marx. He eventually gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. After becoming involved in the movement, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin was drawn to the m...
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