... the part of voters in Eastern Europe, disenchanted by their early experience of the market economy, to opt for parties that are "successors" to the former ruling Communist parties, albeit now espousing democratic socialism rather than Marxism-Leninism. All these five features together are pointers to the trends in the partisan politics of Democracies all ... seek good governance. In several western democracies, Think Tanks, Lobbies and Interest Groups play a very significant role but it certainly cannot match to the role of political party. No political party can be complete without a th...

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... use of force and terror as a means of maintaining control was widespread. The first factor which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist party's domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was ... production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist pa...

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... use of force and terror as a means of maintaining control was widespread. The first factor which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist party's domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was ... production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist pa...

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... use of force and terror as a means of maintaining control was widespread. The first factor which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist party's domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was ... production and many companies were working at a loss. This economic failure of communism meant that support for the system fell and that it was becoming increasingly more difficult for the communist pa...

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... , leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. ... which had been largely ignored and discouraged beforehand, and through this he glorified himself as a dictator of the people and a true proletariat fighting back the bourgeois academics polluting the ...

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... . After a lengthy period of political unrest and bloody revolution the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism took control. This faction would later come to be known as the Communist Party. This party was led by a man named Lenin (Foreman, 87). Communist rule was troubled from the beginning in the Soviet Union. Parties abroad repeatedly challenged the government and there was a general civil unrest. After the ... . Communists may not control large countries but it is very alive in small groups around the world. Strange as it may sound to many, there is a communist party in the United States...

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... could possibly not have taken place? The "red flag- went up for the United States in 1946 when it appeared that Italy had a majority Communist and Socialist government in power. The Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the Socialist Party (PSI) had together garnered more seats in the Constituent Assembly than did the Christian Democrats, causing the United States to take notice. Unfortunately for the ... in early 1948 would make them feel unsure as to the possible outcome of the April elections. In an effort to maximize their combined popularity, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) joined fo...

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... after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism "later known as the Communist Party "led by Lenin (Foreman 123). From its inception, Communist rule in the Soviet Union faced a variety of problems. In the early years the government's very existence was ... challenged repeatedly by its enemies within the country. When the Communist Party emerged victorious, it was faced with the need to rebuild the nation's ruined economy and to train the Russian people for life ... political struggle had led to the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party and the...

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... able to come to power principally because of the policies and actions used by the Kuomintang of which the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) took advantage. However in addition to this, there were also significant factors such as the conditions during the beginning of ... regimes and their withdrawal from the war started to appear to the Chinese. Two years after the signing of the Treaty, in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was set up in Beijing and Paris, with leaders Mao Zedong and Chou Enlan. In sum, the Chinese had lived in insecure conditions ... forced to set up their "Red base a...

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... of consumer goods occurred. The First Five-Year Plan also called for transforming Soviet agriculture from predominantly individual farms into a system of large state collective farms. The Communist regime believed that collectivization would improve agricultural productivity and would produce grain reserves sufficiently large to feed the growing urban labor force. The anticipated surplus was to pay for ... in the Congress of Soviets in November 1935 after several months of publicity and comment. Article 126 negated the entire document, though, for it made the Communist Party the only leg...

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... the Korean War broke out, Australia was quick to contribute forces to support the United Nations operations. Staunchly anticommunist, the Government only narrowly failed to secure the outlawing of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in a country-wide referendum in 1951. Some insurance was gained however when Australia signed a security treaty with treaty, provided for "continuous and effective self-help and ... in the former states of Indo-China did not give any perceptible impetus to the communist party in Thailand, and that the international communist movement was therefore a chime...

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... the Korean War broke out, Australia was quick to contribute forces to support the United Nations operations. Staunchly anticommunist, the Government only narrowly failed to secure the outlawing of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in a country-wide referendum in 1951. Some insurance was gained however when Australia signed a security treaty with treaty, provided for "continuous and effective self-help and ... in the former states of Indo-China did not give any perceptible impetus to the communist party in Thailand, and that the international communist movement was therefore a chime...

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... the transition. In terms of initial criterion, the first country to abolish its orthodox monopolistic communist party was Hungary in early October 1989, however, it was not until November 1990, Romania took the plunge, and its communist party retitled itself as the socialist labour party. The former communists dominated the government until 1996, when they were swept from power by ... a fractious coalition of centrist parties. Currently, the social democratic party forms a nominally minority government, which governs with the support of the opposition, ... was already obvious democracy...

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... two most junior members. The other was a California Republican named Richard Nixon. Only on foreign policy did he buck the party line. When China fell to the Communist armies of Mao Zedong in early 1949, JFK denounced the Truman government for its inaction, joining a chorus of voices that ... February 1950, made a speech in which he claimed to have information indicating that over two hundred employees of the State Department were members of the Communist Party. So began the era of "McCarthyism," in which fears (later proved to be somewhat justified) of Russian spying on the U.S. served...

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... from the communists, due to such unreliable politics, but the loss of both leaders suppressed the communist movement such that they didn't recover. Both factors saw some support move from the communist party to the Nazi's and Hitler. Ultimately the murders resulted in one less party to oppose the Nazis. On the 28th June 1919 two government members of Germany went to ... weak and insufficient muddlings of the Weimar government. Propaganda played a large part in the popularity of the Nazi party. Every trick in the book was employed to express their anti-Communist fascist stance. Their use ...

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... a gift of projecting his personal frustrations. Defeat had brought more than humiliation. It caused inflation to rise every month. In 1920 the Nazi party had 193 members, half were laborers. The meetings often drew thousands. He borrowed the swastika symbol from a obscure political group in East In-dia ... word. Papen was vice chancellor and Hitler was chancellor. Within weeks of his appointment, Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to call new elections. No party, including the National Socialist. Hitler wanted to change to in-crease the Nazis` number of seats. At the same time, he inv...

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... established the People's Republic of China. 1.3 The People's Republic of China Many reforms were made right after the People's Republic of China was established. The legislation was renewed to correspond Communist party's program. Organisations of local and state government were restructured. Economic life confronted also huge changes such as land reform and nationalisation of private companies. With these measures China was supposed ... totally stopped. Mao Zedong died in September 1976. It was time to start developing the country to different direction, towards modern social society. ...

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... the new government developed in many parts of the country. Armed uprisings broke out and grew into civil war. Stalin was active on the southern military front. In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. They then began to rebuild the war-torn country. At first, Lenin and the ... , Stalin started a elimination of most of the old Bolsheviks associated with Lenin. During the next few years, he killed anyone who threatened his power. Stalin also executed thousands of other Communist Party members, includ...

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... political parties are to select candidates for office and organize the government. Selecting candidates. In one-party nations, the candidates the party selects to run for office automatically win election because they have no opposition. In China, for example, the Communist Party "the only party allowed "chooses the candidates for office. In nations that have two or more parties, each ... as long as they create no threat to the government. In China, the Communist Party forms the government. No other party may exist. Party membership is considered a privilege and is granted only after a ...

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... could be done to strengthen the shaky pro-American governments in Western Europe, those governments might fall under the control of rapidly growing domestic communist parties."" In February of 1948, a coup in Czechoslovakia, taken over by Stalin's allies, abolished any opposition preventing the Marshall plan from going ... powers in pursuit of international goals through agencies such as a National Security Council (NSC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The most important anti-communist alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed on April 4, 1949. NATO formed...

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... end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in many similar nations. The Vietnam Revolution was an epilogue of events that started way before the conflict that occurred during the 1960 ... 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the inde...

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... fear of being expelled from power. This ensured there were only the 7 Politburo members who were allowed any say in the Party's organising. A centralised party was, traditionally, against the Communist theory, as the idea of it being dominated by civil servants and paperwork did not appeal to the revolutionaries. Despite this, ... the struggle for power is that there was not one clear leader after Lenin's death. Whilst in power Lenin had controlled the Communist Party with his forceful personality and original ideas, leaving no room for any other leader. He chaired the meetings of the Po...

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... of Germany where being stripped away, piece by piece. At first, they took away the rights of minority groups, such as the Communist and the Jews, then they took away the rights of trade unionist, and other groups until eventually the German citizens had no rights ... his government prohibited all Communists assemblies and Communist media. As well, outlawed meetings and rallies being held by the Social Democrats or had them smashed by the S.A., the Socialist press was also banned. Another group suffering the Nazi's wrath was the Catholic Center Party. While attempting to speak at a ... s...

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... after WW1 the Communists violently attempted to overthrow the government. Many people since then feared a communist takeover. Thus for the moderate German the Nazi Party only proved to be strong enough to prevent a communist capture of the country. Totalitarianism is government control over all aspects of a particular country and ... 1987) Hitler also stated what would happen to opponents of the regime. "The German people have been soft too long. Every communist official must be shot. All communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up a...

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... its chest in as far as comments on last year's strained political circumstances in the Re-public of Moldavia are concerned, whose communist government had repeatedly ac-cused Romania of interfering in its internal affairs. When the presidents of Romania and the Republic of Moldavia, ... smaller socialist parties, namely the Socialist Labor Party (PSM) and the Socialist Party for National Revival (PSRN) which had been the cause of much controversy inside the party. The PSM has always stood up to its communist origins, the PSRN is a party that had split off the PRM. The Enlargement ... o...

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