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Opened The Door Bolshevik Revolution
1,195 words
The soviet communist party, or the Bolsheviks,
always new that strong propaganda was essential to
increase the consciousness of the masses. As
stated in the Encyclopedia of Propaganda, "
propaganda was central to Marxist-Leninist
ideology long before the Bolshevik revolution of
1917. " (675) The power of persuasion and coercion
were exercised with great force by Soviet leaders.
The two leaders whom utilized propaganda to
influence public opinion in the USSR were Vladimir
Lennon and Joseph Stalin...
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Nuclear Nonproliferation And China
909 words
This paper will examine Nuclear Nonproliferation
and China. I will also discuss the land, climate,
and history of China. At 3, 705, 751 square miles,
China is just larger than the United States.
Because mountains or desert covers much of China,
the majority of people live in the east, where
rivers and plains allow for productive
agriculture. While summers are warmer and winters
are colder, China's climate is much like the
United States. Monsoons cause frequent summer
floods. China's geographic f...
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Men And Women Upton Sinclair
1,159 words
Upton Sinclair's most famous novel, The Jungle,
not only symbolized an era where dirt and filth
ran rampant in meat packing industry, but it also
exposed people to the natural human desire of
greed, power, and corruptions. This newly gained
knowledge resulted in a socialist transformation.
The novel follows the lives a large Lithuanian
family living during the early 1900 s that
immigrates to the United States in the pursuit of
freedom and happiness. The family of eleven took
what little money th...
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Russian Troops Nation Building
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Russian and CIS peace enforcement in Tajikistan
Forthcoming in Lena Jonson and Clive Archer (eds.
): Russian and CIS Peacekeeping (Westview, 1995).
Publication no. 1 - 1995, Centre of Russians
Studies. Tajikistan is situated between the five
historic empires of Asia: Russia to the north,
Turkey to the west, Iran and India to the south,
China to the south-east. The civil war in the
country may have cost as many as 30. 000 people
their lives in 1992 alone. Among Russian and CIS
peacekeeping and pe...
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Line Of Work Marx Believes
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In Karl Marx's sociological dissertation The
German Ideology he argues that humans by nature
are multifaceted and creative beings. In addition
to that notion he also believes that people are
social beings, having an intrinsic or as he states
it a human essence to want to be able to work and
live in an environment that will allow them to be
collective and productive. Marx feels that when
humans are denied any of the above-mentioned
areas, which he calls human nature, they are being
alienated. His...
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Ho Chi Minh Second World War
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The 1950 s was not a particularly good decade for
France. The Fourth Republic, which had been
established in the aftermath of the Second World
War, remained unstable and lurched from crisis to
crisis. Between 1946 and 1954, there had been a
war in French Indo-China, between a nationalist
force under Ho Chi Minh and the French. The war
was long and bitter and towards the end, the
French suffered the ignominy of losing the major
fortress of Dien Bien Phu to the guerrillas on 7
May 1954. An armisti...
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Oxford Basil Blackwell Class Consciousness
1,525 words
... power and size. The worker becomes an ever
cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates
Labour produces not only commodities: it produces
itself and the worker as a commodity - and this at
the same rate at which it produces commodities in
general (Marx, 1997: 60 - 62). This process has
the direct effect of alienating the labourer from
the object in the capacity of the product of his
labour: The worker puts his life into the object;
but now his life no longer belongs to him but to
the ob...
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Shows Stalin Army Officers
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H 2 >Do these sources give similar or different
impressions of Stalin? These sources give
different impressions of Stalin, however there are
some similarities. Source A is a cartoon published
in Paris in the 1930 s. It shows Stalin and the
results of his policies according to the artist.
The cartoon features Stalin showing three pyramids
of skulls as if he was a tour guide. The caption
under reads, Visit LURSS ses pyramids! This
translates to, Visit the pyramids of the USSR!
This source ...
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Stalin Man Or Monster
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... y leading figures were purged by confessing to
being traitors and were executed. The purges were
aimed at Party members to begin with, 500, 000
were arrested and executed or sent to labour
camps. After the trails the purges were extended.
By 1937 estimations show that 18 million people
from all backgrounds, had been sent to labour
camps. Source I shows the courtroom at Stalin's
show trails. It shows Stalin as the judge and the
defendants appear to be Yagoda, Zinoviev, Kamenev
and Bukharin. T...
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20 Th Century Marx And Engels
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the
meaning of communism while exploring the ideology
in depth and to give a plausible critique of
communism. Throughout the history of the modern
world, man has sought out the perfect government.
An invincible system of order. And in our search
for this ideal system, the idea of holding
property in common has been a reoccurring thought.
From early Christian communities to modern Marxist
states, socialism and more specifically, communism
has had an ...
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Facets Of Russian Communism Within Fictional Utopian Literature
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... he ideas of Socialism, Marx published a few
highly controversial news articles and had to end
up fleeing to France in fear of being arrested. He
continued to write controversial articles and
books and soon after became friends with Fredrick
Engels, a man who had written on the oppression of
English workers. As they had different strong
points, the two men decided to work together to
get their point to a larger audience. After trips
to England and settlement in Belgium, Marx wrote
the lead pa...
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First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima
755 words
First things first, people argue his name. Some
say that the J. at the beginning of his name means
Julius because his fathers name is Julius. Others
argue it is simply a J. that stands for nothing.
To tell the truth nobody really knows the truth
about what it stands for. Well, since thats
cleared up thats that. J. Robert Oppenheimer was
born on a cold spring evening April 22, 1904 in
New York. When Oppenheimer was five he went on a
trip to Germany to visit his grandfather Ben who
gave him a doze...
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U S S R Cold War Tensions
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... in 1965. China threatened India and aided
Pakistan. Khrushchev fell from power in October
1964. The new Soviet leaders tried to heal the
split with China. But Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin
and General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev were
unable to reunite the Communist bloc. In 1966,
China launched a "cultural revolution. " One aim
of this revolution was to eliminate all Soviet
influence from China. The Chinese accused the
Soviet Union of betraying world Communism and
being secret allies of the Un...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,230 words
... arty. The aid that the Chinese Communists
received was limited. It may be argued that to
Soviets most important aid to the Chinese
Communists was delaying the arrival of the
Nationalists to Manchuria for six weeks. The
Soviets had their own goals in Manchuria, the most
industrially developed area of China. The Soviets
dismantled industrial plants and shipped them back
into the Soviet Union. The Soviet seizure of
industrial materials in Manchuria hindered the
progress of the Chinese Communist...
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Salem Witch Trials House Un American Activities Committee
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A "Great Drama" is a play in which an audience can
find personal relevance. It is something which an
audience can relate to. A great drama should
having meaning to audiences for multiple
generations. Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"
successfully related to its audience and left us
with messages that still echo today. The Crucible
must be considered to be a great drama because of
Miller's skillful play writing which created a
script that not only addressed the idea of
conformity in American culture...
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One Child Policy Feng Shui
2,517 words
... economy and development of the country. The
government is divided into three branches; the
executive, legislative, and judicial. The
executive branch consists of the president and
other head of government that are elected by the
National People's Congress every five years. The
Legislative Branch is a unicameral branch that
makes up the National People's Congress. Unlike
the U. S. government that is made up of the House
of Representatives and the Senate, there is only
one governing body in Ch...
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Mccarthy Vs Salem Witch Trials
1,530 words
Often times it has been stated that history
repeats itself, I have found an example of a
situation where it did. Lots of people think that
the McCarthy hearings of the 1950 s are a repeat
of history from the Salem witch-hunts of 1692. In
both cases, all of the accusations were false, and
also fictitious. Also in both cases, the main
reason people were blamed was so that ones who
were condemning would receive their own personal
gain. In both parties, McCarthy and the girls,
they accused people to...
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Booker T Washington B Du Bois
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Compare And Cantrast Web Du Bois 038; Compare
And Cantrast Web Du Bois 038; Booker T
Washington Compare and Contrast WEB Du Bois and
Booker T Washington W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T
Washington had very different views about their
culture and country. Du Bois, being born in the
North and studying in Europe, was fascinated with
the idea of Socialism and Communism. Booker T
Washington, on the other hand, was born in the
South, and like so many others, had a Black mother
and a White father. T...
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Communist Party Invisible Man
534 words
The reason I chose, THE INVISIBLE MAN, is because
the black man in this story symbolizes the black
the black man in society which is set up to fail.
He is used, humiliated, and discriminated against
through the whole book. He feels that he is
invisible to society because society does not view
him as a real person. Reading this book was very
difficult, because the book was written in first
person singular. I had to think hard on my opinion
of Ellison's underlining message in this book. To
do this...
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Communist Party Common Man
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Beau Walsh Autobiography Life in Russia as a
working class laborer Yuri, a middle aged Russian
peasant labor worker sat talking with his friend
Valerie; the year was 1940 and the two men sat
together drinking a bottle of vodka while
discussing the last thirty years of their lives.
Valerie turned to Yuri and said you tell me about
the last thirty years and how do you feel about
things were and how they are now. All right said
Yuri, I ll tell you but it s just between us, you
agree; and with the n...
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