... question". Women's organizations were not allowed their voice, which became an ironic and frustrating endorsement to the pathetic state of women in China. The One-Family, One-Child policy launched in 1979 has turned reproduction into an area of direct state intervention. The new regime under Deng made the neo-Malthusian observation that the economic gains from reform were ... percent, much less provide a base for advanced industrial development. The One-Family, One-Child campaigns have therefore targeted women to limit their childbearing as a "patriotic duty". The family planning policy ...

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... so-called dictatorship of the proletariat making it in reality the dictatorship of the Communist Party. Even though at this stage of Soviet governance V.I.Lenin encouraged debate and discussion of policy everything still had to be approved by him laying the foundations for the autocratic dictatorship which was to come under Stalin. Stalinist dictatorship was definitely a perversion of Marxist theory although ... standing army. It is necessary because maintaining a "special body of armed men" (Engels, F. Year??) leaves open the possibility that such a body may, with its ownership and con...

• Word Count: 1970
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... abdication of the Kaiser, who was the King of Prussia and totally autocratic. He had the power to appoint and dismiss the government, dissolve the Reichstag and he controlled foreign policy and the armed forces. The Reichstag was however, was elected by men over 25. The Reichstag could agree to or reject laws put forward by the Kaiser or the government ... SPD further up the political line and their views were getting more and more expressed. However, these forms of democracy never had much effect. The Reichstag was still under the control of the Kaiser, Chancellor and government. The l...

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