... initiation of a long term civil war in the country of Spain and had a major role in tearing the emotional boundaries of the state. For any book to be treated seriously it should possess a very strong subject matter that is full of details, ample accurate information and above all, a story presented ... common soldiers in the army and was later on supported and aided by the conservative elements both outside and inside of the country. According to the book, there was not a major success when the coup actually started and actually was looked upon as a big failure for the whole nation. When...

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... This is seen in Bill Brugger's China, Liberation and Transformation in which he laments the out datedness of an earlier book, Contemporary China, before it was published: By the time the book appeared, Mao Zedong was dead, the "Gang of Four" had been arrested and China's leaders were engaged in a ... explain the origins of the interpretation and its affect on historiography. The main problem encountered was the relevance of texts to the subject. Li's book, The Private Life of Chairman Mao is a recount of the encounters between Mao and his personal physician. It was of limited use for the ...

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... , the leadership ranks are of those who wish to seek political assylum in the United States--though this is not disclosed until near the end of the book. The remainder of the crew are young and inexperienced and also include one Soviet Party member whose job it is to see that all orders are carried ... a system of deep water canals in the Atlantic on a course directly for the coast of the United States. As Jack Ryan, the key role played in the book, starts to analyze all of the data, he is given to thinking that the submarine is on a course to defect and not to start a neuclear war with ...

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... and express concerns about the result of the Russian Revolution and the threats of unconstrained power. These factors make us all look back at what the true meaning of this book actually was. Orwell uses personification as an efficient way to express the nature of the targets of his critique in the time Animal Farm was written. This literary device in ... beliefs or ideas of power and the manipulation of lower-class animals or the proletariat in Russia. Irony is one of the most common devices found all through out the book. An example demonstrating dramatic irony is in the seven command...

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... the October Revolution. To reach the masses outside the cities, the artist decorated trains, boats, and even carts with slogans celebrating the Revolution. As Christina Lodder in explains in her book Constructivism, "It was an exciting and exhilarating period. Despite the hardships, the food and fuel shortages, artists managed to express some of this excitement in the revolutionary festivals, decorating the ... of Russian art. By the early twenties, Gan had helped organize a group of young Constructivist artists known as the First Working Group of Constructivist. By 1922, Gan published ...

• Word Count: 4641
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... . In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by the writings of many notable researchers and historians on the subject of American Foreign Policy, such as William Appleman Williams and his book The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, many looked to revise the conventional views held to that point. Revisionists challenged the orthodox idea that U.S foreign policy after World War II was anything ... interpretations of the two previous schools without taking a low-road and non-scholastic approach sets it apart from the other two movements. Led by historian John Lewis Gaddis and his book "The United S...

• Word Count: 1800
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... every single aspect of life, in every single corruption, lies a Jew, and that in no area whatsoever is a Jew beneficial to anyone at all. In many different places throughout the book, Hitler takes great pains to identify Jews with everything wrong in Germany. "Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved ... Jews" (Hitler 61), that "When [he] recognized the Jew as the leader of the Social Democracy, the scales dropped from [his] eyes" (Hitler 60). From this point onward, throughout the book Hitler would take great care in as...

• Word Count: 2487
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... however, it gains profits from agencies to protect the secrecy of information that is desired. Espionage is an old ancient craft; it has been used through out history. The Bible's book of Joshua (The Old Testament) states that the leaders secretly sent out spies to reconnoiter a country. Also the Chinese Military theorist Sun Tzu's, who wrote ... a book The Art Of War written in 500 B.C, provides instruction for organizing an espionage system with agents and defectors also known as rebels. Homer a Greek philosopher who wrote "Illiad- mentions the ... ...

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... pieces feature experimental verse forms and the lower-case personal pronoun "i"--symbolizing both the humbleness and the uniqueness of the individual--that became his trademark. The copy editor of the book, however, mistook Cummings's intentions as typographical errors and made "corrections." In 1917 Cummings moved to New York, was employed very briefly at a mail-order ... book company, and soon began working full-time on his poetry and art. With World War I raging in Europe, he volunteered for the French-based Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service. He spent ... ...

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... that Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and later returned, had fired three shots from the window of the Texas School Book Depository, inflicting all of Kennedy's and Connally's wounds- (Cullather 178). Based upon the investigation, the [Warren] Commission concluded that there is no credible evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was part ... was shot -- Nov. 22, 1963 -- the tape is considered a key piece of evidence. Although Lee Harvey Oswald is thought to have fired three shots from the window of the Texas Book Depository, the question of whether a ...

• Word Count: 991
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... captured the basic idea behind guerilla warfare, it lacked organization and insight. This led to the precise and definitive military thought introduced when communist revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung published his book On Guerilla Warfare in 1937. It served as a handbook for any student of the subject, providing principles and guidelines to Marx's idea. To Mao, "The [guerilla] unit may originate in ... , regular army units permanently detailed, the local militia, deserters from the ranks of the enemy, and former bandits and bandit groups" (Mao 66). Primarily communists around the globe studied...

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... against Ole Miss, asserting racial discrimination. The lawsuit was ultimately resolved on appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Meredith's favor in September 1962. William Doyle indicated in his book, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi," that the NAACP's support was a crucial element in Meredith's ultimate victory. "Doyle also noted that two other factors were ... ...

• Word Count: 2157
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... on the Date of Publication and Discussion on the Wider Social, Economic, and Political Context The 'percentages agreement' was made public by Churchill only through the publication of his book The Second World War, Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy'. Hiram (2012) noted that Soviet Union did not make any confirmation of the agreement till now and, most significantly, no confirmation from ... ...

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... Plekhanov together with other social democrats supported the government in the bid to join the war. Trotsky worked so hard to refute the war by writing against it in his book, The War and the International, as well as working with the Swift Socialist Party and he indeed made it adopt the international resolution against the war that Tsar readily indulged ... ...

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... was common in both Russia and Germany, was used to create this ideal social system. This emphasis on violence was borrowed from theoreticians such as Friedrich Nietzsche, who in his book Human, All too Human, wrote, "For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is.   So ... ...

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... Russia, conflicts erupted over war strategies and plans for the postwar peace." This short passage on page 5 in the "America, Russia, and The Cold War, 1945-1966" book shows a Soviet Union unwilling to cooperate past war time causing tensions between the so called "ideologies of the West" and the USSR's Marxist-communist views. After having defeating ... ...

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... ' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. The forces responsible for the fall of Communism are the topic of many a book, but it is clear that a large factor in the revolution was a loss of the minds and hearts of the masses. Perhaps Stalinist Communism, more than any other type of authoritarian ... ...

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... Russians, the fear of nuclear war was a reality. Later, as the war finally drew to a close in the late 1980s many theorists and scholars rushed to call a winner. In his book, How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Dinesh D'Souza pronounces Reagan the clear winner due to his hard line stance on foreign policy towards the USSR. However, upon critical ... ...

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... , who was the more accomplished theorist and author of the two, outlined the major points of his work in his most important work: "What is to be Done." This particular book dealt with the notion that the Russian peasantry was a viable revolutionary force, but lacked the capability of developing on its own. Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to ... ...

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... , from the Revolutionary War, to home security, to the New CIA/NSA. Espionage has been in existence for a very, very long time it can first be seen in the Bible's Book of Joshua, , when the Israelites were about to conquer Palestine, their leader Joshua sent two spies out "secretly with orders to reconnoiter the country."(Bible) This happened earlier than 1200 ... ...

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... . Possibly all of these different cards carried around could be combined into a universal ID card. One could use the same card to pay for medical care or medical information, take a book out of the library, also as a driver's ID. Such a universal ID cards may represent a great convenience. But may also pave the way for invasion of privacy, since information about a person ... ...

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... November. 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. Lenin had created the foundations to begin a revolution, however Lenin had created the ... ...

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... . David Remnick, one of the well-known American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, has presented a comprehensive picture of political, economic and social developments in the post-communist Russia. In his book, "Resurrection: A Struggle for a New Russia", he has attempted to analyze the policies and efforts of the Yeltsin administration to revive the Russian economy and bring Russia back to its previous ... ...

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... late 1980s, the party had succeeded in socializing a significant part of the national economy, including agriculture, commerce, industry, and oil. These goals of the Baath increased nationalism. In conclusion, the book Promises Not Kept by John Isbister deciphered political theories that have been well established in the country of Iraq. Throughout the ages, we will see these political theories flourish or ... ...

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... ' statement is not entirely true. Michael Hogan's claims that European economic fortunes took a massive downturn in the winter of 1946-47 is something strongly denied by Alan Milward in his book, The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-51'. Milward states that in 1947 there was expected to be a downturn in economic investment as economists thought war re-stocking was complete. Milward ... ...

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