... quell disorder, would have been less violent, and offered moderate elements a better chance to pick up the reins of power- (Pipes Concise 74). In the late stages of the war, the tsar was commanding the armies at the battlefronts far from the capital city. So, the ruling of the country was left to his wife, a foolish, naive, and inexperienced ruler. All political parties clamoured for power as well, during this time ... and the strains on the monarchy were tremendous. Just to illustrate the nature of the "anarchy- in the government at the time: A peasant man named ... ...

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... had not realized the anger and resentment the peasants felt by the tsar's taking away of the freedoms that they so recently had received. The discontent of the people continued through the accession of Aleksandr's son, Tsar Nicholas II to the throne. The new emperor upheld the principle of the autocracy and gave little in the way of change. The Russian people saw him as unreasonable and many despised his German wife, Alexandra. In ... surge in alternative theories of society and economics gaining popularity in Russia and the rest of Europe and Asia. The immediate cause of the Revolution...

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... contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. She is dead and with ... get rid of Stalin. Lenin quite ominously predicted that Stalin was, in his opinion, unable or unwilling to exercise power cautiously or selflessly enough. During the same period, Stalin became involved in an abusive argument with Lenin's wi...

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... peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. But Stalin's grip on power was not shaken, save perhaps in his home, where his wife Nadezhda committed suicide in 1932. Then, in December 1934, Stalin ordered the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a member of his Politburo ... whom he suspected being a locus of opposition to his rule. This touched off the "Great Terror ... they would be tried in secret, accused of having "inspired" Kirov's assassinat...

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... contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. She is dead and with ... get rid of Stalin. Lenin quite ominously predicted that Stalin was, in his opinion, unable or unwilling to exercise power cautiously or selflessly enough. During the same period, Stalin became involved in an abusive argument with Lenin's wi...

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... , and that is why the Western Ukrainians had not reached the level of dehumanization of the Russians who had been under the Communist rule since 1917. The writings of Solzhenitsyn were denouncing the regime for enslaving and suppressing its population, but the situation with human rights in the country was not getting any better. In fact, the actions of the government were only provoking further indignation in the dissident human rights movement ... re gime; however, the main reason for the exile was the publication in the West of the first volume of Gulag Archipelago, a story describing...

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... at every turn by a clearly embittered Chaplin. It is an indictment of the sort of tactics that the McCarthy commission was purported to have used. 8 Shahdov has already decided to abandon the United States to go back to his wife in Europe at this point, but not before going to visit the grief stricken child who feels ashamed of his actions. He informs him that ... in order to humiliate and anger Chaplin into wanting to leave. As an often outspoken, occasionally politically motivated comedian they recognized the threat that someone such as Chaplin posed – however, it was indicative of ...

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... to prove paternity and require a monthly payment to mother and child. For most men it was impossible to pay the court-ordered sums so they would simply disappear resulting in chaos in the country and courts. It was impossible to search for all the missing men and there was no way to force them to pay. Thus it was not all success stories for ... , and receive all she was worth should she make use of the divorce laws made in the previous years. However although the legislation was emanicpatory in nature it resulted in great disruption to rural life. The legislation did not make clear how l...

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... managed to express some of this excitement in the revolutionary festivals, decorating the streets and participating in the resulting synthesis of painting, sculpture, music, and theatre" (47). The October Revolution first year anniversary best portrays the mood of the country and the artists. Gray further explains these events in when she articulates, "They took charge of the decoration of the streets for the October Revolution anniversary celebrations; they organized pageants depicting ... had grown up with and admired Time had advanced rapidly in the eyes of Lenin. Old and tired from ...

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... and also dies. There are other deaths, some of them bitter losses to Russia, indeed: Shatov and his wife Mary and her newborn baby; the inarticulate, mystical Kirlov; the wealthy young society women Liza Drozdov; Stavrogin's secret wife Maria Lebyatkin and her brother Captain Lebyatkin; even the escaped convict Fedka. A sweep of destruction suggests a tragic crisis, a violent erasing of old gods, old profanations ... people that when Communism finally dominates the world there will be universal happiness and the liberation of mankind from everything that has bound it in the past, includi...

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... Chief linked the failure of the army with the monarchy; the role of Nicholas's wife, a German and Rasputin, a suspected German agent, created much hatred as they took control while the Tsar was at war; the state of the army, trained inefficiently and affected by lack of food and supplies, deteriorated; the failure of the Duma and collapse of the economy and the fact that there was a mass migration from the country to the towns placing ... pressure on the availability ... ...

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... Chief linked the failure of the army with the monarchy; the role of Nicholas's wife, a German and Rasputin, a suspected German agent, created much hatred as they took control while the Tsar was at war; the state of the army, trained inefficiently and affected by lack of food and supplies, deteriorated; the failure of the Duma and collapse of the economy and the fact that there was a mass migration from the country to the towns placing ... pressure on the availability ... ...

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... Russia to become the wife of Peter Feodorovich. When Peter died Catherine became absolute ruler and empress of the largest European empire. Unlike Peter, she did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather encouraged individual ingenuity in pursuit of self interest, "I have preferred humanity and indulgence toward human nature- (Anthony 326) To learn the needs of the country, in 1767 ... Catherine gathered an assembly. It was entitled the Law Code Commission, made up of elected nobility, townsfolk and state ... mere object for exploitation" (Kaus 246). Cathe...

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... be explored further through analysing the source of its own opinion. The current stance, from the 1981 Resolution on Party History, states that "(the Cultural Revolution) produced a civil strife that provoked the most crucial disasters for the Party, the Government and the People" . However, rather than Mao, the real criminals of the period existed in the "Careerist" Cultural Revolutionary Authority, or "Gang of Four", headed by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, who exploited ... much would be to blacken Comrade Mao, and that would blacken the country itself" . Much of the evidence used in the hi...

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