... Lothar Elsner in 1994, is a synopsis of reports and official documents on foreigners and foreigner policy in the GDR from 1949-1990 with a critical focus on the aspect of hostility to foreigners. It contains several chapters on anti-foreignism and devotes an extra chapter to the GDR. Its major value lies in giving new perspectives on anti-foreignism in Germany, a situation which ... for political economics at Rostock and lived in the former GDR, so she has an intimate knowledge of political events of the time. Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the perio...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... philosophy: Metaphysical inquiries and reflections upon Man's existentialist existence and experience. As for The Rebel's overall plot theme, it is remarkably the only of Camus's works to lack an actual literary theme through and through. Rather, it is a quasi-philosophical work of great literary importance, as it transcends the prototypical story, into the story of man; this is what amounts to be a literary work of ... ; but in no case, if he is consistent, does he demand the right to destroy the existence and the freedom of others. He humiliates no one. The freedom he claims, he claims...

• Word Count: 945
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

... it was overall accepted and Lenin's policies rather allowed for a more unified party. Survival was necessary and was accepted by the entire party resulting in all other ideologies placed behind and rather the goal of survival placed in the forefront, and as a result the party was able to change for the mood of the country, shaping Russian history. Despite Trotsky's decision of ... reintroducing tsarist generals sparking debate, especially with Stalin, the necessity of it, and Lenin's control over the party, allowed for a decisive victory and in turn shaped ... Bukharin and Trotsky, two ...

• Word Count: 1204
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

... Palestine. Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . Suddenly, in 1948, Stalin changed his position again, dissolving the JAC, arresting prominent Jews, and beginning the "Black Years" of refreshed repression and anti-Semitism. Although Stalin's drastic doctrinal oscillations were completely out of character for the immovable dictator, the changes in Jewish administration were not the only exceptions in his etiology that Stalin ... made from WWII to his death. The effects of Stalin's inconstancies were inevitably destructive to his legitim...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... of Nicolas II in March of 1917. Seven months after the Provisional Government's formation, the Bolsheviks took command of Petrograd and disbanded the Provisional Government with the popular support of the Russian people, especially the soldiers and factory workers, whom the Bolsheviks empowered in unity. "Extensive popular support for the Bolsheviks and Soviet power, especially in the urban centers and the army, was a reality of 1917, without moral implications pro or ... con for regimes created later in different circumstances."" The reality of popular support is what gave the Bolshevi...

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... , were responsible for the start of the Cold War. Overall, this essay seeks to argue that Soviet 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 through the actions taken which greatly heightened the tensions between the superpowers. Soviet aggression was responsible for the start of the Cold War ... as the actions taken by the Soviet Union were offensive, based off ... ...

• Word Count: 2144
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

... to refer to the problematic subjectivity of the modern man, as being inevitably affected by the great influence and omnipresence of ideology. This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. At this point of the narrative, The animals appear to be totally submissive to and even grateful for the leadership of Napoleon, ... 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 visibili...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

... discusses this from a subjective and objective point of view in order to back up his opinion and present a clear case without discussing the situation at a complete slant, which I think shows how qualified he was to influence American foreign policy because he had every right to ... and had good insight due to his ability to look at the situation from every perspective, not just the American perspective. I believe Kennan attempting to be as unbiased as possible in this lecture allows him to give anyone reading the book a good chance to develop their own argument, which is ... of this wou...

• Word Count: 1225
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

... to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group called "Movement for Socialist Renewal" which includes party and government officials of senior rank, has claimed itself as the authentic voice of the Soviet elite. The group has published a manifesto, which according to Martin ... and Perestroika, Gorbachev released new paths open to discussion regarding Capitalism as the best alternative for the current unstable political situation. As th...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... Palestine. Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . Suddenly, in 1948, Stalin changed his position again, dissolving the JAC, arresting prominent Jews, and beginning the "Black Years" of refreshed repression and anti-Semitism. Although Stalin's drastic doctrinal oscillations were completely out of character for the immovable dictator, the changes in Jewish administration were not the only exceptions in his etiology that Stalin ... made from WWII to his death. The effects of Stalin's inconstancies were inevitably destructive to his legitim...

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

... that women are oppressed in a multiplicity of ways that depend on culture, class, and race as well as on gender. Moreover, they are latter investigating the reasons for women's invisibility that exists not only at the level of policy discourse but also in field of IPE as well as much of feminist analysis of economic globalization have examined hierarchical structures of class ... , race, and gender. It could be said that an important goal for many feminists is an attempt to speak out for the marginalized and oppressed position of women. But if considering democracy linked by feminist the...

• Word Count: 1344
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

... of gown up responsible people that have free access to information and can therefore self govern, except for the transitional period required for the establishment of the required infrastructure. In this light, it would seem that communist countries would be on the forefront of environmental progress, for they are on a path to establishing a constant of civilization, in which an ecosystem integrating human ... "Make human life more rational. Build a just international order. Use all science for a more sustainable development that does not contaminate the environment. Pay the ecological d...

• Word Count: 3463
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate