... lack of laws and enforcement measures, so say opponents. Lawlessness would only occur in the ultimate stage of pure communism. Until the ultimate stages are reached, however, communism involves the abolition of private property by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels ... 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 begi...

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... government started political, economic, and social reform. Hungarian communists were gradually gaining control of Hungary's government. Matthias Rakosi was head of the communist party, and head of the government. The Hungarians did not like his policies and replaced him for the first time in 1953 with Imre Nagy. ... in sealed trains to the Soviet Union by communist troops. The estimated number of Hungarians that were killed during the fighting in their revolution reached as high as 65,000. (Hungary 1956 and the Political Revolution) The United Nations requested to send observers into Hun...

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... he prepared a 5 year plan for it's survival. Gosplan laid down production targets for each main industry: electricity, coal, oil, pig-iron and steel, to be reached in 5 years. He had very ambitious plans as he wanted to multiply by two or three the production. Only the oil industry ... reached its targets. However, in all figures there was a massive increase of 500% to 700%. As opposed to the 1937 plans which had an even ... in the modernization of Russia. Stalin also used the NKVD against leading communists. He could not tolerate any cristicism or rivalry. In December 1934, the popula...

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... not only the fulfilling of a target, but the over fulfilling, and not doing so was a sign of apathy to the revolution. Because of this, targets were very rarely reached and it would be easy to assume that the five-year plans were a failure, when so few targets were met. However, the achievements of the five-year plans were incredibly ... peasant land owners into collective farms the Soviet Union provided an agricultural backbone to feed its industrialisation whilst preventing famine from ever reoccurring in Russia. It also helped the communist party generally by massively increasing the...

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... the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic. Also in 1912, a new revolutionary party was formed. This party, called the Guomindang, believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the officials. Because Yuan disagreed with GMD's ideas, he ... pursued. This was because the landlords and the warlords were cruelly taking advantage of the people, making their life miserable. Democracy, which he never reached, was no issue for Chiang, due to lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right ...

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... in war. As a result of such unyielding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 did Quaker relief work in Europe. 500 suffered court-martial, and out of ... and the American government. Heinous acts such as the burning of Socialist documents and the lynching of its members Was commonplace. While all this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former...

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... from the Enver Hoxha University at Tiranë though the streets of the capital shouting slogans and demanding an end to dictatorship. By December 11, the number of participants had reached almost 3,000. In an effort to quell the student unrest, which had led to clashes with riot police, Alia met with the students and agreed to take further steps toward ... outbreak of an all-out civil war, President Berisha appointed a Socialist, Bashkim Fano, to lead a government of national reconciliation. He also promised new legislative elections in June 1997. The Socialist Party won control of the asse...

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... Khrushchev attempt to narrow the gap in economic inequality and the standard of living, bring forth educational reforms, and propose reforms within the party hierarchy, but like future problems with the reforms to come, the problems that Khrushchev wanted to deal with or change were essential features of ... revering the Tsar as a god in earlier Russia, maybe not so much as a god now, but out of fear. Basically movement within the party halted. At this point the Soviet Union is burdened by an enormous bureaucracy. Kenez states: "Ministries proliferated, not only on the union level but ...

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... according to need. Some conceptions of communist societies assume that, ultimately, coercive government would be unnecessary and therefore that such a society would be without rulers. Until the ultimate stages are reached, however, communism involves the abolition of private property by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels 177). As a concept of an ideal ... czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism "later...

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... will move into a capitalist front only to prosper. An Inflationary crisis within two years will test the government's reformist mettle: The 14th Communist Party Congress, set the official seal on the fourth wave of economic reform. Market Splintering: l feel that China should allow labour to become freer ... of foreign investment from countries, especially japan, which will hit poor parts of China. China will also be joining GATT soon, and have reached an market-opening agreement with the US in October. I believe that China should allow as much foreign investment as possible because it ...

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... in war. As a result of such unyielding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 of these, 450 went to prison. However, these numbers are small in comparison ... America, had split because of a dilemma over World War I. This split occurred when Europe entered the war. This break up hurt the Socialist party. Many who were not Socialists opposed the draft, but the party was the point of opposi...

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... to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and that didn't trust the government's promises and actions. As Gorbachev was gaining power quickly in the Party, he introduced some radical reforms that he believed would benefit the country. His reform policies of "Perestroika", "Demokratizatsiya" and "Glasnost" meant restructuring, democratization and openness. The purpose ... Czechoslovakia peacefully transferred their power to the reformers. In Romania, the communist Party of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and by the force of arms in Decembe...

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... in Eastern Europe. The reformation of Gorbachev was an excellent example to prove this. Under the rule of Lenin, there could be only one party, which was the Communist, to run the government. Opposition parties were all eliminated. This was different from Marx's originally intention to have a state ... refused to accept the Russian general Rokossovsky as the Polish Minister for Defense. Khrushchev sought for solution in negotiating with the Polish. Both sides reached compromise. The restoration of position of Gomulka, the nationalist communist imprisoned by Stalin, led to the agreement o...

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... 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, including the chiefs and countless officers of the Soviet army. Stalin achieved his purpose. When he decided to cooperate with the German dictator ... Stalin's government. Police control grew tighter. The bloody executions went on but were kept secret. No one was safe. Even Politburo members and Communist Party leaders were executed and shot in 1949 and 1950. Anti-Semitism, which had been encouraged by Stalin during the 1...

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... the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik party would not have been able to cling to power during 1920 and 1921. The Kronstadt mutiny is an example Christopher Read uses to justify the lengths ... to make up the '100 year gap' as Stalin termed it. With Lenin's Death in 1924 Stalin (after a political battle for the party) took on the responsibility of seeing Lenin's vision of a economically strong communist Russia through. Like Lenin, Stalin was willing to use Terror, force ... ...

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When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the ... Marx insisting that they drop this form and create a Manifesto. Though every modern edition of the Manifesto carries the names of Marx and Engels, the text that reached London in time for the second congress of the Communist League was written by Karl Marx alone(Wheen 119). The document is divided into four sections with prefaces for ... class, and the increasing poverty of workers would spark a successful...

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... become part of the European Union. Romania unfortunately falls under the category of an unsuccessful state in its transition to democracy. This is not to say however that Romania hasn't reached a democratic government, but the transition and levels of democracy differ somewhat, from a successful' state e.g. Poland. Historically, Romania has never been able to make any significant progress towards democracy. ... 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 ...

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... the balance of trade; they would export more than they import. In 1973, British desired an increase in trading rights but emperor Qianlong refused. Sometime after this demand, China has reached a period of decline. Then the Industrial Revolution had created a need for extended markets in European goods. In the 1800's, Western nations began to use their rising power and glory to ... to peasants. The Communists became known as "The Red Bandits" and Jieshi wanted them gone. He began to organize extermination campaigns to get rid of them. In 1934 the Communist party had made a stand and tra...

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... markets to generate income, and in 1993-94, the local governments in Tatarstan and Yakutia sought economic decentralization in Russia by refusing to pay federal taxes. Consequently, an agreement reached between the federal government and the republics gave the latter what they wanted: increased economic autonomy (Drobizheva). Of paramount importance is the economic and political realities facing both Moscow ... that characterized the state socialist system. But the separation between the public and private sphere is not clearly defined in Russian society. The penetration and coercivenes...

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... of freedom, but an old and historical one: "The communal relationship into which the individuals of a class entered, and which was determined by their common interests over and against a third party, was always a community to which these individuals belonged only as average individuals, only in so far as they lived within the conditions of existence of their class---a relationship in which ... productive forces and forms of intercourse have developed so far that, under the domination of private property, they have become destructive forces, and because the contradiction between the clas...

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... from blood poisoning which made on of his arms shorter than the other. As a child Stalin was always made fun of for his long nose and as an adult he reached to be only five foot four. Even though Stalin had so many misfortunes, he loved his mother who saved money for Joseph's education. As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he ... and read the communist manifesto. When Joseph was eventually kicked out of the seminary he continued to be with the other Marxists. He then met members from the Social Democratic Party and joined them. Stalin later got caught for causing and planning a vi...

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... where several countries had succumbed to communism despite America's best efforts to stop the widening and spreading of communism. In China, the Chinese Communist Party had won the elections in 1949 and was now in power. The Soviet's didn't pay much attention to China at that stage but the ... happened. It was a big blow to the Truman administration and some thought more economic and militaristic aid should have been offered to the Democratic Party of Chine but it was widely accepted that "intervention of such scope and magnitude would have been resented by the mass of the Chinese peopl...

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... him according to his abilities, to him according to his needs." But this did not happen in the Soviet Union. Since Stalin was the sole party leader he controlled all means of production but he did not distribute the goods evenly. This led to widespread famine and starvation which was just one ... everyone was an angel, it must be expected that people will take advantage of the system. Another concern is the power a communist society allows one party complete control. It has been said that, "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and so far this has been evident in such nations as the Sovie...

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... of what a full-scale market reform would mean for their futures, and at this point the economy seemed as though it was near a collapse. "By 1989 the budget deficit had reached 120 billion rubles-(p.158) In an attempt to counter this more money was printed. Inflation rose dramatically and forced the ruble to worth almost nothing. With that in mind the ... an economic collapse. Gorbachev's political reforms influenced the economy of Russia. In 1989 there began the nationwide elections with multi-party candidates running for political offices. Gorbachev allowed a new parliament to be imple...

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Life in China In China life was pretty miserable for many years under the control of Mao Zedong. The future of China lay in the hands of the communist party. Much of the country lay in devastation and ruin. Mao proclaimed that the Soviet Union should be the model for China to follow after and imitate their communism. They copied ... the Soviets one-party system with Mao holding the positions of president of the republic, head of the People's Liberation Army. During the 1950's major reforms altered Chinese society as well as the state ... Southeast Asia. In the 1980's Japanese financial and t...

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