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Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
1,249 wordsJoseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin's death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were to build heavy industry, transportation, and an increase in farm production. This initial attempt to industrialize the country was generally successful, but collectivization was extremely unpopular and was resist...
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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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Mao Tse Tung Chiang Kai Shek
1,943 wordsTo say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist attitude toward China's traditional past is selectively critical, but by no means totally hostile. The Chinese Communist revolution, and the foreign po...
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Domestic And International Soviet Union
1,377 wordsThe causes and reasons for the decline and ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union are many and of a vastly varying nature. Yet, despite the various schools of thought on this issue, these causes can generally be placed into two differing scopes, those being the domestic and international arenas. Much emphasis is placed on the role that international factors played in the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). But particular domestic factors that the Soviet Empire was faced with...
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Japan History From Wwii
464 wordsINTRODUTION: Without a good history, no nation can ever be considered developed. It is the history that makes or breaks a country. Japans history is very unique. During and after WWII their country was in ruins - literally. All their previous allies had deserted them, they were alone and destroyed by the Americans, an unlikely ally. I will focus on the impacts that America had on Japan, and then how Japan got themselves to the title of "The Second Most Developed Country." WWII: In 1941 Japan sta...
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Second World War World War Ii
1,436 words... recent of their beef supply. It was a general conviction within the British government during the war that without Argentine foodstuffs maintaining the standard of living of the British civilian population would be impossible and the war effort would be seriously compromised (Tulchin 88). On the other hand, such an analysis contains a fallacy in the fact that an increase in trade does not necessarily improve a country's economy. In his book The Fitful Republic: Economy, Society, and Politics...
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Centrally Planned Soviet Union
1,868 wordsThe Centrally Planned Economy in the former Soviet Union Introduction In October of 1917, the world saw Lenin and the Bolsheviks take power in Russia, Lenin did not however have exact economic plans for Russia since Marx never provided a blueprint for a communist state and its economy. Marx saw society progress naturally through various stages of development (i. e. primitive society, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and eventually communism). Marx essentially provided a critique of capi...
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World War Ii Played A Role
2,799 wordsThe causes and reasons for the decline and ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union are many and of a vastly varying nature. Yet, despite the various schools of thought on this issue, these causes can generally be placed into two differing scopes, those being the domestic and international arenas. Much emphasis is placed on the role that international factors played in the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). But particular domestic factors that the Soviet Empire was faced with...
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Mao Tse Tung Chiang Kai Shek
2,077 wordsCommunist China and Mao Tse-tung A look into its introduction to Communism and the Man who led the DONNY CAMPBELL Dr. UMOETTE HISTORY OF THE FAR EAST MAY 3 rd 199 The Roots of Communist China To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich? . That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered Chinas traditional relationship wi...
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Deng Xiaoping Foreign Exchange
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Standard Of Living Millions Of People
1,823 wordsDemocracy vs. Dictatorship Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people under the principle of authoritarianism. Some feel that dictatorships are the most effective form of government because decisions are made quickly and extreme nationalism benefi...
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Average Life Expectancy Standard Of Living
2,299 wordsDemocracy vs Dictatorship Essay written by heather Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people under the principle of authoritarianism. Some feel that dictatorships are the most effective form of government because decisions are made quickly and ex...
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China And Japan Korean Peninsula
2,457 wordsDid Japan modernize or Korea? Scholars have debated this question with vigor throughout this century. I do not believe the answer is so black and white. While looking at the history of the colonization, evidence of both should appear. The word colonization alone generally means to move into another people s land and exploit resources. However, positive results can appear during a negative situation. Regardless of what point of view an individual takes, there is no doubt that Japan has dramatical...
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Role Of Women Women In Society
1,223 wordsThe 20 th Century has been the period where women in society have got the chance to be accepted in various divisions such as labour, military and voting. I think that the period where war had a drastic effect on the role of women was in the First and Second World War. However, I believe that the war did effect the role of women in many ways, but this only lasted for the period of war. In order to examine how the war effected the role of women in society, we must examine what were the roles of wo...
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Five Year Plans Stalin
1,641 words? Khrushchev? s Rule Was Characterised By Foolish And? Khrushchev? s Rule Was Characterised By Foolish And Hare-brained Schemes, Brezhnev? s Offered Nothing? Khrushchev? s rule was characterised by foolish and hare-brained schemes, Brezhnev? s offered nothing but stagnation. ? Analyse the domestic history of the USSR in the period 1953 - 1980 in the light of this assertion. In 1953 the ruthless and powerful ruler of the USSR Josef Stalin died thus ending a period of Russian history which saw the...
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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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Lenin Soviet Union
1,256 wordsJoseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin? s death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were to build heavy industry, transportation, and an increase in farm production. This initial attempt to industrialize the country was generally successful, but collectivization was extremely unpopular and was resis...
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State Owned Enterprises Real Interest Rates
3,661 wordsA study of the market reforms in Post-Communist eastern Europe each a specific case study of Poland, as well as its fellow post-communist countries, face an arduous task in-inventing their economies to match the dominant Western style currently dominating the world. The difficulties lie in the areas of ideology, structural needs (massive changes required), world recession (current) and debt load. Communist Economics Why did the economics of the communist bloc fail so miserably? Why has every sin...
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