... these. Throughout my essay, I will analyse Lenin's role in regards to the achievements attained by the Bolshevik's. By the start of 1917, the Tsarist rule was confronting intense issues, mainly due to his naive autocracy, "The fundamental cause of the Russian revolution was the incompatibility of the Tsarist state, with the demands of the modern state"1; the peasants were requesting land; the proletariat needed higher wages and better working conditions ... important of these monetary strategies, was 'War Communism', this concentrated on the Red Army's war effort, and kept the armed for...

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... Karl Marx. In 1848, he co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx (Lenin). The Communist Manifesto is divided into four (4) sections. The first section discusses the Communists' theory of history and the relationship proletarians and bourgeoisie. The second section explains the relationship between the Communists and the proletarians. The third section addresses the flaws in previous socialist literature. The final section discusses the relationship between the Communists and other parties. Marx and Engels ... stage of Communism is achieved by going through the stages in order. ...

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... communism is quickly losing its credit in the public, one may expect possible political and ideolocial reforms in the country. However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen control for the potential reforms. In this essay, I will first discuss the relevance of a reform that is pressed by the Chinese people. In this part I ... much concession from the current communist regime. To illustrate, in the Hundred Flowers Campaign, it was the intellectuals, especially the young students who actively suggested political and ideological reform...

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... struggles and their historical consequences. Marx believed that human history was largely defined by the animosity between the working class and the governing class, with the latter in control of providing for the lower classes. He divided the classes into what he labeled the bourgeois and the proletarians. According to Marx, the bourgeois were direct descendants of a primitive society that had "not done away with ... worth into an exchange value. He also credits the bourgeois with turning "the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science" into paid laborers. This pro...

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... as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part. The bourgeoisie, whenever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations, and has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked ... , the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family r...

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... perestroika - led to the collapse of the Cold War. Ideologically the Cold War began as early as 1917. After 1945, with the Soviet Union ascending to the status of superpower, the Cold War was transferred also to the sphere of geopolitics. At the end of the 1980s, however, it became obvious that the Communist experiment had failed miserably. The Soviet way of ... , Germany's formal reunification. In June 1991, the Communist government in Albania fell, and by the end of the year, the Soviet Union itself followed. (Andrew Nagorskip,42) In economic factor, the collapse of totalitarian commun...

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... through a carefully organized revolution which he planned with dedication and skill. He became leader of a collection of scattered groups entitled the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. It was because of this, that he was arrested and imprisoned from December 1895 to 1897. While in prison ... , he began his first major work, The Development of Capitalism In Russia, which he completed while in exile in Siberia. In addition to finishing his book in Siberia, he ... was also married there on July 10, 1898 to Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya who was a revolutionar...

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... and fairness they made a very deep impression, they showed the policies of the communists by fixing fair rents for the peasants and giving land to the landless, and unlike the Kuo Min Tang army they did not steal food. The peasants being the proletariat class liked and welcomed communism because of the fact that everyone would own the same amounts of land, there would be "abolition of ... private property" and they would be raised to the class of the bourgeoisie. The dedication and sheer determination of the Red Army Troops in the Long March enabled the troops to survive helped the Chine...

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... as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part. The bourgeoisie, whenever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations, and has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked ... , the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family r...

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... of communists during the Reichstag Fire. This was a result of the mounting dissatisfaction among the working class. By doing this, the Nazi regime was identifying and eliminating all potential challenges, and due to the decree, it was legal for the Nazi state to detain the people they thought were threats. This, for the most part, nullified the threat posed against the Nazi regime. In Mao's Communist China, the Hundred Flowers campaign was ... -expanding car industry. One of Mao's economic policies that went a way towards winning the hearts and minds of the masses was the land reform of ...

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... russia. "Socilaist revolution was was only practicable only in fully developed capitalist societies where the prolatariat was in the majority." (kowalski p47) Unusual for such a revolution to take place in russia with the proletariat population being an estimate of one million to one hundred million peasantry. One could judge the success of the socialist revolution, on the peasantry slowly progressing towards becoming working class, their wanting to become proletariat. Marx ... influenced Lenin tremendously, however here, marxism is not being used dogmatically in expaining the bolshevik...

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... individuals at an ever-growing scale, the education they received from the new-found proletariats is just one of the weapons that the bourgeoisie supplied the proletariats to arm themselves against the domineering class. Next, the un-paralleled advances made by modern-industry with reference to technology also supplied the proletariat with resources needed to overthrow the bourgeoisie. "The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarcely one hundred years, has created more massive ... and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together" (McIntosh 1997:42). These in...

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... Guevara continues his journey of discovery, the corruption, deceit, associated with the naivety of police and common citizens rapidly become noticeable when the consequences are passed on to the poor . Moreover, in the North of Chile, Chuquicamata, they discover a communist couple in the desert night. Guevara describes the couple as "(The couple) frozen stiff in the desert night, hugging one another, were the living image of proletariat in any place ... around the world". Guevara metaphorically symbolises the couple as an entity depicting the grim state of the human condition.This ... ...

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... has seemingly become perfect, they have become distinctly imperfect. Although technology is important to this novel and is correlated with the future, the Time Traveler rarely describes the technology he encounters. What he describes the most is the effect it has had on the people. The author wants to show his audience how humans adapt to using advanced technology and how they are changed by it, ... As the Time Traveller speculates, the working class has been shoved underground for so long that it has evolved into a separate, nocturnal species. The upper class has remained above ground...

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... different realities and responses. Great Britain was the homeland of the industrial revolution, which began in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet the French were the unquestioned leaders in the development of socialism and working class consciousness. After 1750, Britain predominated first in the Cotton Industry and later in the Iron & Steel industries. By 1850, manufacturing was the dominant form of economic activity, agriculture declined ... as extreme due to the fact that it had more of an agricultural sector in the economy, which workers could fall back on, and their industri...

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... be seen as being out there with the people, constructing the binary opposition of social democracy as the big guns, aimed at the little man and his family, oppressed by inefficient state bureaucracy, and the left, as a whole, appeared to have a one sided rationalism which had no sympathy for the individual. The left failed to comprehend the necessity to educate the common people, while the law and order morality crusades of ... Thatcherites found popularist support. This was perhaps the most practical, common sense, ideological force amongst the popular classes. This new hegemonic voice...

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... cease to exist. This thesis attacked the Provisional Government, however the Provisional government was going to be weak when it first started, this would be because the Russian people distrusted them. This showed the Russian people that Lenin was on their side and was in touch with them. This was one of the catalysts to revolution in 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 revo...

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... a revolution of behalf of the workers he took charge of peasantry land issues, promised an end to the food shortages, and resolved to end the military conflict between Russia and Germany. Lenin not only found support with the people, but also with fellow revolutionist. One of Lenin's greatest supporters, Leon Trotsky played a major role in the Bolshevik's rise to power. Originally ... a Menshevik, the rival socialist party to the Bolsheviks, Trotsky was able to convince the Petrograd Soviet ... to make him head of a new military committee which ultimately passed the power on to the Bol...

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... traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles, is certainly one of the most revolutionary and widely read documents in the world. Within the document, Marx (who is primarily credited for the manifesto) provides a thorough critique of the conflict of European's social classes and advocates socialism ... . The Communist Manifesto was created in response to a need to publish the Communist league's views and abolish rumors spread by...

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... to inform the public of the corruption in their capitalist system, and the poor living and working conditions for the working class yet he lost the focus of the readers. There are many reasons why The Jungle was unsuccessful in sparking a socialist uprising. "The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one "there ... were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a ... poisoned rat was a tidbit,"" (Sinclair, 135). In pointing out specific details of the meat packing process, Sinclair lost...

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... both materially and spiritually. In fascism, all excessive freedoms are removed from the individual in order to allow for clarity to the people in following the directive of the State. Marxism and liberalism both advocate the expansion of individual freedoms, with Marxism citing ultimate understanding of one's position in society and thus, contribution as justification and liberalism suggesting that individual freedom is a natural state which cannot ... be imposed upon by the State. Fascism denies these beliefs as counter-productive to the health of the State at large, and consequently ...

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... was fictitious but still based upon fact. President Theodore Roosevelt coined this style of journalism ''muckraking'', therefore leaving the authors known as ''muckrakers''. Roosevelt chose this name because the writers had such a gift for digging up corruption or dirt on the deviators. Upton Sinclair, a journalist from California, pioneered mucraking in his journalism. He was interested in social reform ... and industrial reform, and expressed it through his writings. The Jungle, published in 1906, was one of Sinclair's most popular novels and a ... perfect example of muckraking. Sinc...

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... to inspire others. Upon Gleb's return to his hometown, the narrator describes, "In Gleb's heart-swollen and throbbing-he heard the mountains and the quarries, the smoke stacks and the dwellings the factory Diesel engines the revolving cylinders in the furnace room" (Gladkov 3). Gleb's fond memories of the factory in the early paragraphs of the novel suggest his passion; indeed, the industry seems to be a living, essential part of him ... of her new nature, or whether Dasha truly does want to display affection, Gladkov chooses to describe the incident as passionless and merely physical. ...

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... "Napoleon announced that he had decided on a new policy" which reflects his power to create rules and make decisions. The representation of power by admiration, and authority to take charge in situations can also be observed in the film Wag the Dog. One character that represents high power and authority in this film is spin-doctor Conrad Brean. Conrad is shown as a powerful figure ... through the high use of lighting to accentuate his importance, also camera shots looking up at him to show him as ... powerful figure, and is still worshipped to this day, nearly half a century after his ...

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... centred because work would be more interesting, and the female looking after the children. They argue that not only has the family evolved because of stratified diffusion, but also there are several other reasons for why there is now symmetry in households of today. One of these is that women have become more ... independent and become paid workers. Because of this the females are not at home as much to look after children and do all the housework and so it has had to be shared. Also ... is Ann Oakley. She collected information from 40 married women who were between the ages of 20 and 3...

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