... battling against the corrupt and the vile for a just end, while in tandem with these Utopian ideals, he employs the means of a malicious and wicked nature. As a whole, the main historical references to such ideals and methods find themselves in the French and Russian Revolutions; to a lesser extent, the Marquis de Sade, in his habitually cruel nature, becomes the exemplification of the individual as the morally converse form of the Rebel himself. The recurrent premise ... occasional deviations into the stupefying expanse of near encyclopedic history. The Rebel's decisive factor is its e...

• Word Count: 945
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... defense, a country prepared for every contingency."" Although industrialization was successful, the Plan was certainly at the expense of the peasantry as working conditions declined, and the exhausted nation was unable to meet Stalin's demands, and thousands of citizens were arrested. "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." To preserve Socialist Stalinism as the only ideological school of thought, Stalin not only brutally suppressed local initiative and conceptual opposition ... , but also crusaded against religion as a competing faith, leaving about 1...

• Word Count: 1533
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... fight the bourgeois to the end. This approached gathered the Bolsheviks a large base of supporters in the large urban centers where the factories were clustered. The Bolsheviks incited civil war, after they seized the Petrograd Soviet, with their proclamation to the Constituent assembly that they could only be removed by force, not through the institution of election. Leftist Social Revolutionaries, who once supported the Bolsheviks, did not approve of their actions and after the dissolution of the Constituent ... Assembly and rejection by the ... ...

• Word Count: 1026
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... causing the Cold War as it was only a mere declaration of American intentions which were present before 1947, and there were other factors which limited the Truman Doctrine, hence eliciting no response from the Soviets. The Truman Doctrine was arguably an important cause of the Cold War as it provided the framework for later American policies as part of the containment ... aggression was responsible for the start of the Cold War as despite the other factors contributing to the start of the Cold War, Soviet aggression still holds a degree of responsibility in the start of the Cold War thr...

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... a successful treaty, through his "no peace no war strategy" the part divided between the leftists and the rights, resolved as a result of Lenin's threat to resign as a leader. Whilst the effects of the treaty were only short term, as the terms were void by the treaty of Versailles, it had a minor impact on shaping the USSR. As a result, in the first 6 months leadership conflict and differing visions shaped Russian history only ... and in turn shaped Russian history, where leadership conflict played a very small role. Moreover, Lenin's early popular communist measures were changed which ...

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... problem that it couldn't remedy throughout its whole existence: a great labour deficit. Even by trying to correct the lack of skilled workers through mobilization measures, the labour reserve of the GDR was behind the demand of the East German national economy, and, most importantly, far behind the economy of the competing Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Thus the governance of the GDR was forced to consider the possibility or bringing foreign workers from other socialistic states into ... , their interests in this agreement and the situation of the contract workers. The author of this...

• Word Count: 1950
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... not trying to force his opinion on anyone. " our national consciousness is dominated at present by a sense of insecurity greater even than that of many people of Western Europe who stand closer to, and a position far more vulnerable to, those things that are the main source of our concern. Now, much of that change may be, and doubtless is, subjective today we exaggerate our dangers and have ... a tendency to rate our own abilities less than they actually are. But the fact remains that much of this change is also objectively real; in 1900 the political and military realities were truly s...

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... reformed if developments are leading to contradictions and crises. Nevertheless, several attempts to reform the policy have been made – either in the core of the USSR under Khrushchev or in the Soviet-bloc countries (Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia).5 However, a few strikes and protests do not necessary denote the end of the Communist Regime, nor the will of a new policy. People remained loyal to socialism, despite its imperfections. Yes, an economic ... , provoked from below and should we consider the factor that the collapse of the regime and the transition was accomplished in a f...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Has Bibliography
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... defense, a country prepared for every contingency."" Although industrialization was successful, the Plan was certainly at the expense of the peasantry as working conditions declined, and the exhausted nation was unable to meet Stalin's demands, and thousands of citizens were arrested. "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." To preserve Socialist Stalinism as the only ideological school of thought, Stalin not only brutally suppressed local initiative and conceptual opposition ... , but also crusaded against religion as a competing faith, leaving about 1...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... by certain rules of conduct. Foucault uses this model as a metaphor to deal with the operation of power and surveillance in contemporary society. Indeed, Napoleon's newly acquired invisibility seems to offer him better position to maintain an unquestionable authority over the animals. The relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed in the farm rests upon the dichotomy of visibility of the animals and the invisibility of Napoleon, that is of the power of the latter and the powerlessness of the former. In the ... same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses...

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... the beginning of the "Special Period."" With hindsight, the most important conceptual aspect revealed by the national economy between 1975 and the beginning of the "Special Period- was that the pattern of extensive growth sowed the seeds of its own destruction. The change from an under-developed nation subsisting from its own economic production and the small amounts of trade with the outside world, to a significant contributor in one of the two divisions of ... of labor, the intensifying of human labor on smaller individual plots of land, and the distribution of personal responsibility f...

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... . For example, for women reproductive control is fundamental to liberty, but the pressure to restrict the availability of abortion is also mounting in the independent states of the former Soviet Union. This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. In liberal discourse, a corresponding ... dualism between women and men justifies the attribution of different social status...

• Word Count: 1344
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• Grade Level: Graduate