By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict. ... It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... His job, and his life depended on the fact that he had to keep Soviet Ideals in place, and that he allow the Russian military to support him and his government. ... Because they lived in Afghanistan their entire lives, they had a much...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Despite the differences amid totalitarian states, there are several characteristics that they have in common, the two most significant being one ideology that addresses all parts of life and one party led by a dictator. ... There is also an ideology "that addresses all aspects of life and the means to attain the final goal" (Bartleby). ... The governing party is generally concerned with what goes on in the lives...

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All of the causes could have been avoided easily with some respect and compassion for life. Each is directly connected to each effect mentioned; these effects have impacted lives of innocent civilians for more than 25 years and will continually affect people because there is nothing that can be done to stop the radiation that is stuck in Chernobyl. ... It has been said that if the Soviet Government had acted earlier many lives would have been saved. ... In the end, Chernobyl was a disaster that could not have been avoided; human errors are a way of life, and although many people suffered from...

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The only way to ensure one's safety was to hop on the bandwagon with McCarthy, thus resulting in a vicious cycle that destroyed lives and butchered careers. ... This blatant infringement upon the rights of every American citizen had now taken away the lives of many purely based on circumstantial evidence and accusations. This trend was also carried over into suburban life, but on a smaller scale. ...

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Emanuel Ringleblum, the historian and public figure, it methodically assembled reports and diaries an initiated research in order to preserve documentary evidence of the life of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. ... As is evident the Jewish resistance throughout the Holocaust existed and although it clearly did not save the lives of countless Jews, it did aid the lives of some and instilled a sense of self-respect and honor in the Jewish people.....

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 The Life and Death of Détente: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, 1968-1988 "If we can learn to live together on these issues and work together and negotiate on these we may change the world. ... Essentially, it caused doubts regarding the usefulness of the chosen means towards containment: not only was success unrealized, but the war had become grossly expensive relative to American lives and its resources (435). ...

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When the Berlin Wall fell it changed the everyday life of people in both West and East Germany, by cultural and social cohesion, unemployment, lowered birth rate, and lowered life expectancy and heightened the mortality rate. People from East Berlin and West Berlin felt like the life on the opposite side of the wall was completely different. ... After the wall came down this option was taken from them, and many German jobs began to disappear, leaving young people fleeing and starting new lives in West Germany. ... When the Berlin Wall fell it changed the everyday life of people in both West an...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life, in 1916, this disability will prevent him from joining the Russian army). Nevertheless, he is described as having been in excellent physical shape as a teenager; throughout much of his life he was muscular and well built. ...

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Globalization improves the quality of life for citizens living in poverty-stricken regions of the world. ... By the simple expansion of a multimillion-dollar corporation, democracy can be instituted in countries operated by fascist dictators or iniquitous tyrants; instead of facing oppression, citizens' lives are dramatically improved by gaining the right to choose. ... Gone are the days that governments have the ability to isolate their people from the rest of the world and misinform them concerning life beyond their domestic borders. ...

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This paper will focus on this film and the way in which the Cold War had framed its production – both in terms of Chaplin's personal life and the themes of the film itself. ... He would not return to the United States until 1972 – five years before his death – "when an apologetic Hollywood honored him with a life achievement award during the Oscar ceremonies.... This is a clear nod to the surveillance that he and others were subjected to in the heightened paranoia of the Cold War while also criticizing the invasion of famous people's private lives by media ou...

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Soviet tactics were appallingly costly in lives, of 34.5 million mobilized Russians, 84% were killed, wounded or captured. ... Not people's lives," technical inferiority of the Red Army meant they were fighting a superior force for much of the war, large casualties were almost inevitable. ... Economically, lend-lease was "Russia's life-saver." ...

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Russia has always seemed to have a rough and uneasy history littered with civil wars, coups, and ever-present change. Starting at a point in early Russian history, princes throughout Russia, or Kievan Rus as it was called at the time, would consistently feud with one another over power. From about ...

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Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ... Large-scale purges struck the country, targeting all levels of society--including children: Stalin reasoned that parents were more likely to confess to trumped-up charges of subversion...

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Before any state can ascend to the status of superpower a shared philosophy, or general direction, must first be established. In this paper I plan to compare and contrast the ideologies behind the political and economic practice of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. The similar...

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(Joshua) Vertov attempted to create an entirely new way of making films by recording life in the present. ... Unfortunately for Vertov, who intended on filming to portray "life as it is" (Vertov), fiction films were more popular with the Russians. ... This is supposed to convince the Russians that everyone's full effort is needed to start applying communism to their everyday lives for the betterment of the society. ...

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Expressionism was a major force in German culture - in theater and painting as well as film-during the 1920's, just as during the same period, Formalism marked the burgeoning cultural life-both literary and cinematic-in the Soviet Union. ... Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional actors, but used amateurs who were asked to draw on the experience of their own lives) rather than fully developed characters, he created a forceful, incessant logic for this story of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of Battleship Potemkin. ...

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He was very active in his childhood and youth stages in early life. ... This was just but the beginning of his endeavors in life judging by the adventurous life he had as a teenager. ... His teenage and early adulthood life was full of challenges given that he changed his name from Bronstein to Trotsky after he immigrated to London in the year 1902. ... Despite this fact, the Russian empire was the home of mainly peasants who were farmers even though it is believed that the lives of the Russians was improved in the year 1861 from which they were serfs, implying that they were owned and traded ...

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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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