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Austria Hungary Triple Alliance
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Mussolini and the intervention crisis Benito
Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in
Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito
became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an
elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he
emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a
permanent job there and arrested for vagrancy, he
was expelled and returned to Italy to do his
military service. After further trouble with the
police, he joined the staff of a newspaper in the
Austrian town of Trento in 1...
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Universal Male Suffrage Chamber Of Deputies
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... and resulted g) under the threat of the King
appointing new peers, the House of Lords passed
the bill in April 1832 5 - The Reform Bill of 1832
a) a very "English" voting system resulted b) you
enjoyed the franchise if you resided in a borough
and paid L 10 a year in rent c) or resided in the
country and paid L 10 for a 60 year lease; or L 50
for a short lease d) if you owned land that could
be rented for L 2 a year you voted e) the
electorate of 500, 000 was increased to 813, 000
12 % of ad...
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North Korea Working Class
552 words
He was born on April 15, 1912, Pyongyang, to a
poor family. His family, a most patriotic and
revolutionary one, was in the best of the people's
fight for many generations, from the beginning of
the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean
people for the independence of the country, the
freedom and liberation of the people and for the
victory of the noble revolutionary best of the
working class. He grew up, receiving his
revolutionary education at home and acquiring a
revolutionary outlook on ...
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World Of 1984 Winston Smith
2,013 words
The fictional world of 1984 is best described as
bleak. In the aftermath of the fall of capitalism
and nuclear war, the world has been divided among
three practically identical totalitarian
nation-states. The novel takes place in London,
which has become a part of Oceania, the nation
state comprising the Americas and western Europe.
A state of perpetual war and poverty is the rule
in Oceania. However, this is merely a backdrop,
far from the most terrifying aspect of life in
1984. Oceania is gove...
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Cia World Factbook Workers Party
1,057 words
Political System Spain is a parliamentary
monarchy. Chief of state is the hereditary monarch
and the head of government is the President of the
Government. The President designates the cabinet
which is called the Council of Ministers. Spain is
also has a bicameral legislative branch. The
General Courts or National Assembly or Las Cortes
Generales consists of the Senate or Senado and the
Congress of Deputies or Congreso de los Diputados
(CIA World Factbook). In order for legislation to
pass the t...
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Search For Meaning Chinese Society
1,756 words
Chinese Education There are many different
approaches to studying education as whole as well
as studying political education, which used to be
a permanent part of education in China, each of
which yields interesting insights into the changes
in thought and consciousness arising in the
process of rapid social and economic change over
the last decade. Stanley Rosen's work has opened
up to us the world of Chinese surveys, with all
their revealing details on changing youth
attitudes towards the part...
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Marx And Engels Political Economy
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Economic Philosophy-Fredrich Engels Fredrich
Engels is one of the most prominent
representatives of communistic sights during the
pre-revolutionary period and one of the founders
of Marxism. Engels was born in a family of the
textile manufacturer. Father of Engels, Fredrich
Engels, was the supporter of pietism and he
aspired to give children religious education. Till
14 years Engels studied at city school, in 1834 he
had acted entered grammar school. Beneficial
influence on formation of Engels s...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,415 words
Communism 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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Strengths And Weaknesses People Of England
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Thomas Mores Utopia Thomas Mores use of dialogue
in Utopia is not only practical but masterly layed
out as well. The text itself is divided into two
parts. The first, called Book One, describes the
English society of the fifteenth century with such
perfection that it shows many complex sides of the
interpreted structure with such clarity and form
that the reader is given the freedom for
interpretation as well. This flexibility clearly
illustrates Mores request for discussion and point
of view fr...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Fidel Castro
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Cuba: The Plight of a Nation and its Revolution
While the isle of Cuba was initially discovered on
October 27, 1492 during one of Columbus? first
voyages, it wasn? t actually claimed by Spain
until the sixteenth century. However, it? s
tumultuous beginnings as a Spanish sugar colony
provides an insightful backdrop into the very
essence of the country? s political and economic
unrest. From it? s early revolutionary days to the
insurrection challenge of the Marxist-Leninist
theories emerged the to...
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Foreign Direct Investment Wall Street Journal
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Cuba: On the Road to Reform by Timothy Ashby
Timothy Ashby served as Director of the Office of
Mexico and the Caribbean Basin of the US
Department of Commerce. He is now an independent
consultant based in Washington. Today Cuba is an
anachronism, a small island of socialism in a
hemisphere that has largely abandoned
state-dominated economics, adopting market-based
democracy as its path to prosperity, and is
beginning to enjoy the fruits of investment and
growth stemming from this transition. Sti...
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Deng Xiaoping Cultural Revolution
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Democracy Movements in China Democracy Wall In
1978, stimulated by the opening of China to the
West and also by the reversal of verdicts against
the 1976 Tiananmen protesters (These
demonstrations against the gang of four had been
condemned as counter-revolutionary at the time but
were now declared a revolutionary act), thousands
of Chinese began to put their thoughts into words,
their words onto paper and their paper onto walls
to be read by passers by. The most famous focus of
these displays b...
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U S Military U S Government
1,391 words
Like Castro, Gueverra, and Standing, Jose Figueres
Ferrer holds a place as one of the most important
revolutionary and political forces in Latin
American history. This so-called father of modern
Costa Rica led his country to revolution and
eventual democracy. Known affectionately as Don
Pepe by his admirers, Figueres was both an enemy
of communist and a thorn in the side of the United
States. While putting down a communist regime and
allying himself consistently with the U. S. ,
Figueres was als...
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19 Th Century Turn Of The Century
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If it is admitted that the nineteenth century has
been the century of Socialism, Liberalism and
Democracy, it does not follow that the twentieth
must also be the century of Liberalism, Socialism
and Democracy. Political doctrines pass; peoples
remain. It is to be expected that this century may
be that of authority, a century of the Right, a
Fascist century. If the nineteenth was the century
of the individual it may be expected that this one
may be the century of collectivism and therefore
the ce...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Ministry Of Truth
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Political Views in George Orwell s 1984 The main
theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four concerns the
restrictions imposed on individual freedom by a
totalitarian regime. George Orwell shows how such
a system can impose its will on the people through
manipulation of the press, the elimination of
democracy, constant supervision (courtesy of the
Telescreens) and more. Orwell also shows how the
state has more subtle methods for imposing its
authority, such as the manipulation of language
and control of the m...
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Percent Of The Vote Von Papen
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In 1930, Germany's manufacturing had fallen 17 %
from that 1927 level. Bankruptcies were
increasing, unemployment was rising and farmers
were hurting. Some in the middle class feared
sliding into the lower class. And some in the
middle class blamed the economic decline on
unemployed people being unwilling to work. In
1930, the parliamentary coalition that governed
Germany fell apart, and new elections were held.
The biggest winner in these elections was Adolf
Hitlers National Socialist Party. Fr...
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Il Popolo D Il Popolo Socialist
302 words
Born My Ass Mussolini Factfile Born in small town
of Predappio in the Romagna in 1883 Son of a
Catholic Schoolmistress and a blacksmith with
revolutionary views Not academic, but had strong
character? being noted for his bullying and
overpowering nature After leaving school Mousolini
had a few teaching jobs in village schools 1902
Mussolini went to Switzerland, where he did odd
jobs He did read widely and was soon preaching the
need for revolution Returned to Italy in 1904 to
become a journalist...
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Five Year Plans Stalin
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Joanne 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
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,381 words
Rise of Communism in Russia -Unless we accept the
claim that Lenin+s coup d+-tat gave birth 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 li...
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Socialist German Workers German Workers Party
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ational Socialism, commonly called Nazism, German
political movement initiated in 1920 with the
organization of the National Socialist German
Workers Party, also called the Nazi Party. The
movement culminated in the establishment of the
Third Reich, the totalitarian German state led by
dictator Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. National
Socialism emerged from consequences of the German
defeat in World War I (1914 - 1918). Under the
terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was
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