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Russian Social Working Class
1,298 words... ral intellectual leaders to guide them there, which disagreed with Marx, who said the responsibility of the workers was for the workers themselves. Lenin hoped that once the proletariat won a revolution against tourism, it would spark revolution over the whole world. After writing the book, Lenin earned the respect of Joseph Stalin, who now saw him as a man of extraordinary caliber. Many differences arose between the opinions of Lenin and other publishers of Iskra, and many of his comrades s...
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Long Period Of Time Countries In Africa
1,452 wordsWhat exactly is famine? Many people think that famine is always caused by environmental factors, but this was not the cause for the African famines. Famine can be defined as a natural or man-made disaster. Some of the signs of a famine may be the price of food goes up, certain amount of economic distress, minor migration to different countries, increase in crime, or an increase in population. These were all of the signs of the African famine. When people think of a famine, many people think abou...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,198 words... the President that nuclear weapons may have to be used just to keep the communist back. The President dismissed this for fear that it may draw the Soviet Union and its nuclear weapons further into the war. After three long years of fighting, the Americans and North Koreans ended their fighting with an armistice that created borders that were almost the same as those at the beginning of the war. The United States fought its first limited war to stop the spread of communism, and it came away w...
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Suez Canal Peace Treaty
1,149 wordsBorn into a family of 13 children in 1918, Anwar al-Sadat grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom 40 miles to the north of Cairo. Having completed a grade school education, Sadat's father worked as a clerk in the local military hospital. By the time of his birth, Anwar's Egypt had become a British colony. Crippling debt had forced the Egyptian government to sell the British government its interests in the French engineered Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean Sea wit...
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Gas Chambers Death Marches
1,125 wordsAuschwitz was a series of 3 camps. The first camp was known as Auschwitz 1. It was the main camp and the first to be made in 1940. It was continuously expanded by forced labor. It was mainly a concentration camp. But it also had a gas chamber and crematorium. Auschwitz 2 was known as Biirkenau, also. Its construction started in October 1941. It had the largest Prisoner Population. It was divided by electrical fences into 9 different sections. It is guarded by SS guards and dogs. There were secti...
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Rank And File Commanding Officer
656 wordsKerensky was a young man in 1917. In many ways, that was the tragedy of Russia in 1917, that such huge responsibility was placed on the shoulders of such an inexperienced man. Kerensky was also foolish. He was a great orator. He was very theatrical in his gestures. He was the darling of the Petrograd intelligence. Young girls fell in love with him. Many of them wrote him love poems. There was a cult of Kerensky indeed. His rhetoric was sickly sweet, which in the euphoria in the spring 1917, was ...
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Nuclear Arms Race Mikhail Gorbachev
1,096 words... ing spirit of the Russian people, and their kind-hearted, loving, and accepting characters shine through in her writings. She is dealing with an area that has not had much coverage in the media or in history because of the political structure of the Soviet Union. Until recently the United States was engaged in a Cold War with the Communist Soviet Union, and access to these types of interviews, documents and experiences was unthinkable. She has brought out a new way of looking at the recent e...
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Greece And Turkey Spread Of Communism
1,688 wordsThe Cold War, which lasted from the mid- 1940 s until the end of the 1980 s, was a battle for longevity amid democratic and communistic governments. After WWII the western powers attempted to curtail the spread of communism but faced fierce opposition from Eastern Europe which sought to prevent the expansion of democracy. The origins of the Cold War can be traced through the motives of the US and USSR, containment policy, and the division of Germany. Americas emergence as a world power was a sal...
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Fall Of The Soviet Soviet Union
1,876 words... mostly under his control. He had regained all of the power that he had lost due to the revolution of 1905. 6) The March Revolution: Food riots broke out in Petrograd, and when the Czar ordered the Duma to dissolve and they did not obey. Soldiers were not able to stop rioting in the cities. Workers and soldiers in Petrograd organized radical legislative bodies called Soviets. The rebellion spread throughout the country and to the troops, who deserted by tens of thousands. On March 14, the Pet...
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Mao Zedong Soviet Union
770 wordsPSC 211 Final When we talk of China in the second half of twentieth century, we better refer to this country as awaken giant. Until the Communist revolution in 1948, China used to be exploited by Western countries and regarded by them as the nation with strong body, but stupid head. After Mao Zedong came to power, China had radically changed its domestic and foreign policies. Just like in Soviet Union, Communists deployed the program of collectivization, which was based on the elimination of pri...
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Agent In Moscow Cardinal Of The Kremlin Laser
245 wordsCardinal of the Kremlin shows how the CIA works with their field agents in retrieving information. Mary Pat Foley and Ed Foley are introduced as the joint heads of the Moscow operation. The main plot is the race between the two superpowers in developing a ground based anti-missile weapon. Summary by Jon Faster. When the Soviets develop a laser projector capable of destroying a satellite in orbit or an airplane anywhere in the world, the United States is alarmed. The Soviets seem to be far ahead ...
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Eastern European Countries World War Ii
2,031 wordsCold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between the groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R. ) and its communist allies that referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other side were the United States of America and its democratic allies, usually referred to as the Western bloc. The Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings by both th...
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World War 2 End Of World
579 wordsThe Cold War Cold War The cold war was something that grew out from the breakdown of the western-soviet coalition against Hitlers Germany and the countries allies during World War 2. The cold war was a nonmilitary conflict between the group of nations led by the USSR and the other side led by the United States. The Soviet Union calling for political self-determination proceeded to impose communist regimes on the nations of Eastern Europe. The major parts of the situation lasted from the end of W...
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East And West Soviet Union
422 wordsCold War Intensification between 1947 and 1953 During the period of 1947 to 1953 relations between East and west continued to deteriorate. The first problems aroused after disagreements on what should happen to the now divided Germany. All parties involved wanted to reunify Germany, however a decision could not be reached over how this would be done. It was agreed that the Soviet Union would get German machinery to replace Industry destroyed in the war. It was also agreed that the predominately ...
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U S S R Latin America
1,038 wordsRevolution in Cuba The revolution in Cuba was not a result of economic deprivation, nor because of high expectations in the economy, it was the political factors and expectations which evoked the civilians to revolt. The Cuban economy was moving forward at the time before the rebellion but the dominant influence ofthe sugar industry made the economy asymmetrical and encouraged no dynamic industrial sector. Because of the dependence on sugar, the unemployment rate ranged between 16 and 20 % risin...
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Czar Nicholas Ii U S S R
1,262 wordsEventually, empires and nations all collapse. The end can be brought about by many causes. Whether through becoming too large for their own good, being ruled by a series of out of touch men, falling behind technologically, having too many enemies, succumbing to civil war, or a combination: no country is safe. The Russia of 1910 was in a tremendously horrible situation. She had all of these problems. Russia would not have existed by 1920 were it not for Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the only man capable ...
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War Against Japan Hiroshima And Nagasaki
1,048 wordsHistory paper During the Second World War, the Americans faced a difficult time in their war against Japan. The topography of the land the well trained Japanese army and their motivation made it difficult to the Americans to decide the fate of the war. In front of that complex situation the Americans had decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two major cities in Japan, killing thousands of people. The Americans hoped by doing that, they will bring the war to an end and inde...
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Battle Of Britain Soviet Union
1,101 wordsThough this student looked in Whos Who and Contemporary Authors, no information on Chester Wilmot could be found. One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; y...
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Adolph Hitler Joseph Stalin
587 wordsDuring the time leading up to World War II, there were two leaders who were on rival sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each dominate in their rise to power. These two leaders were similar in the ways that they achieved their objectives. Their success was mostly identified by their new ideas and strong political stances. Though Hitler and Stalin couldn t stand each other, the two leaders were similar in many ways. Hitler and Stalin became the dictators of their r...
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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,074 wordsThe Korean War was a result of the division of Korea after World War 2. Japan controlled Korea prior to 1945 when the United States and the Soviet Union divided Korea at the 38 th parallel. The US did this in the fear that the Soviet Union would take over Korea. This was the beginning of the split between the north and south. Both the US and the Soviet Union began to build their regimes within their halves to support their interests. By the end of 1946 these regimes of the north and of the south...
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