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Castro Came Into Power Batista Regime Cuba
1,316 words... re it was scheduled, and he did not have adequate human resources to ensure the success of his plan. Due to these insufficiencies, the attack was a failure, which resulted in the brutal slaying of seventy rebel youths, and the subsequent jail and torture of the remaining rebels. Although the attack itself was a failure, it served an important purpose in catapulting Castro into the public eye as a potential leader. It also demonstrated how in all probability an armed struggle would be needed ...
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Revolution Of 1905 Workers Of The World
1,041 words... e workers' revolutionary apprenticeship. The growing number of strikes, their extension and increasing duration pointed towards a possible ' General Strike, that is, to the impending social revolution. Each particular strike was a facsimile in reduced scale of the General Strike, and a preparation for the final insurrection. The increasing revolutionary will would not be measured by the success or failure of political parties, but by the frequency and vehemence of the strikes. The revolution...
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Trade Union Movement Labor Union
1,508 wordsEver since the fall of 1930 when the Spanish Revolution began there has been no surcease of the struggle in Spain. For a long time there was a deadlock of forces, an equilibrium in the tug of war between the property holders and the destitute. Now the equilibrium is being definitely broken. The issue before Spain is either Communism or Fascism. The matter is being fought out not with ballots but with bullets and ruthless civil war. Slowly the political revolution is being definitively turned int...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,224 wordster> Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The roots of the General Strike in Brita...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,198 words... off the General Strike did they realised that they had nothing in their hands. While the miners were left to fight alone until their humiliating defeat in November 1926, the other workers re-turned to work where they faced their strengthened employers. In some trades, such as railways and printing, work-ers suffered widespread victimisation. The real extent of victimisation, however, is very difficult to estimate be-cause besides the dismissal of militants and the replacement of workers by v...
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Treaty Of Versailles Overthrow The Government
1,710 wordsIn 1919 the Weimar Republic was set up in Germany. From its birth it faced numerous political problems, for which the causes were many and varied. These problems included political instability, deep divisions within society and economic crisis; problems were constantly appearing for the new government and from 1919 - 1923, the Weimar Republic experienced a period of crisis. In 1916, the German Social Democratic Party, which controlled the Reichstag, split in order to cater for the tensions betwe...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
3,826 wordsThe idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is avidly held misconception, one which has been dispersed by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic knowledge which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic simplification and confuses the many factors which led to the revolution and its victory. Being the prot...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
4,060 wordsThe Peasantry and the Urban Underground In the Cuban Revolution The idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is a widely held misconception, one which has been propagated by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic scholarship which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic oversimplification and confounds th...
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Che Guevara Sierra Maestra
1,219 wordsMy name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. I was born on August 13, 1926 on my father s sugar cane plantation. This was located May, which was on the coast of Cuba s Oriente Province. My father s name was Angel Castro. He was born in northwest Spain, and had come to Cuba with the Spanish Army during the Spanish-American War. My mother was Lina Ruz Go lez. As a child, I attended well-known and prestigious catholic schools. When I was six years old, I went to Santiago to lodge at my godparents house. ...
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Trade Union Movement First World War
2,437 wordsThe General Strike of 1926 Essay written by Michael Funk Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The ro...
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1 St Edition Effects Of Television
2,391 wordsHas EITHER The Television OR The Radio Has EITHER The Television OR The Radio Had Any Decisive influence On Everyday Life During The Last Media are channels through which information is transmitted. The media includes: television, radio, films, videos, computers, books, and magazines. Janowitz (1968) states that: mass communications comprise the institutions and techniques by which specialized groups employ technological devices (press, radio, television, radio, films, etc. ) to disseminate symb...
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Communist Party Joseph Mccarthy
3,813 wordsPrologue Long before Harry S. Truman made the commitment to contain communism, long before the country had come to know the name Joseph McCarthy, the concept of the Red Scare was already a reality in Washington state. Communists were a more powerful presence in Washington than in most other states. In fact, the Populist and Progressive movements received a great deal of support from the state s large Socialist Party, and as a result were very strong during the turn of the century. Because of the...
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