Over the course of his life he wrote numerous fiction and non-fiction novels. ... A few fiction novels he wrote include Bumene Days in 1934, A Clergyman's Daughter in 1935, Keep the Aspidistra Flying in 1936, Coming up for Air in 1936, and his first successful novel, Animal Farm in 1945 (Des Chenes 139-151). ... This work of fiction was very different from the documentaries, essays, and novels that he wrote in the 1930s. ... This acclaimed author's life, style and works, and reputation and influence all played the biggest role in the task of him become an author, and define his l...

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The Ukraine is a country in South Eastern Europe, which borders on the Black Sea. This country was a part of the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1991. The Soviet Union was a communist country, and took over many smaller countries over the years. The Ukraine was one of those countries. In 1991, the S...

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The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. ... Stalin soon wrote a document which attracted the attention of the Bolshevik leader Lenin. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrote a secret note warning that Stalin must be removed as general secretary. He wrote that Stalin was too "rude" in personal relations and abused the power of his office. ...

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Lenin wrote The state and Revolution - within it he explained the Marxist doctrine of the need to completely dismember the bourgeois state before a proletarian could be constructed, however this book was not published until after the revolution in 1918, as with many other pieces of his work. ... The provisional government and its very bad decisions also played a big part in the organization of revolution. ...

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Another way the government have helped is they have got more religious places appear, the current president wrote his own religious book and it is held to the Qur'an standards. ... Though Turkmenistan played no role the country that it was played one of the bigger roles in WWII and that lead to the fall of the USSR and the rise of the many countries that came from it. ...

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Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ... Right before Lenin's death in 1924 Lenin wrote a political testament, publicly asking for Stalin's removal from his post of Secretary General. ... Almost all of the original Bolsheviks who had played a role in the Revolution where either executed or sent to the Gulog. ... The Nazis did play a huge role in killing many of the civilians, but Stalin never tried to save them, he just considered them a lost cause. ...

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"And there ain't persons in the world that are more tearless, more arrogant, yet simpler than the Russians . . .." Anna Akhmatova Russian's Soul is Russian Truth "Russia can't be understood with mind"-this line from Fyodor Tyutchev's poem have become more than a mere aphorism to the Russians....

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The rest of the animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleon's three vicious dogs are characters of the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). ... Marx wrote books that stated that the only way to establish justice was for the workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. ...

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Churchill admitted having cloudy morals regarding the lack of assistance Britain could give Poland because of the tight rope act they were having to play with their new alliance, "...we had a strong obligation to support the interest of our first ally. ... As one paratrooper wrote, "The hearts and m...

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Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop on and caper like troops of ferocious Baboons." ... From this point America was interventionist and was going to play a key role in world affairs and this can be seen as a cause of the Cold War. ... They now realised that they now had the power and resources to play a large part of world affairs. ... Most importantly, the "Truman Doctrine" also committed the U.S to play a big part in world affairs: The U.S, not the UN, would be the worl...

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The Constitution's Involvement in Exceptionalism However before I can analyse the role played by exceptionalism in the early part of the Cold War, I must first look at the root of the idea and how much prevalence it had in the minds of the American people. ... He wrote; "For a century and a half the worship of the Constitution has been part of American traditional thought and emotion. ... So when the USSR's spread of communism threatened these values, it is easy to see that the ideology that encompassed them would play an important role for the Americans in the ideological fron...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? -Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterpa...

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