Book Report: The Rebel The Rebel, a treatise of Albert Camus reflecting upon man's state of rebellion throughout history up through the Second World War, enthralls oneself with its abysmal depth into thematic examination of man's struggle to triumph, and eventual transcending conquest of the Fates, in such noteworthy instances of Revolution from the days of the Marquis De Sade and the French Revolution to V.I. Lenin and the October Revolution that formed the Soviet Union. Delving into the myriad ... for this philosophical inquiry into what amounts to be a pseudo-egalitarian motive for betteri...

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... wasteful imbalances" were somehow effective in producing some desired results. "The price was very heavy in human misery and created intolerable pressures, shortages, and great disorganization, but the country was transformed." The Five Year plan that had been completed in four years, and the military benefit of all this was to create factories that could be quickly converted ... to defense production, thus "transforming! the Soviet Union from "a weak country, unprepared for defense, to a ... every contingency."" Although industrialization was successful, the Plan was certainly at the e...

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... . The purpose of the book lto focus on themes that are rarely discussed - like the life of foreigners in the GDR-, and to deliver a more diverse view on the history of those years. The main limitation of this publication is that the documents concerning xenophobic aspects in the GDR do not include a lot of source material from the Secret Police of the GDR which hasn't been published yet. Vietnamesische Gastarbeiter in den europäischen RGW-Ländern compiled by Klaus ... , their interests in this agreement and the situation of the contract workers. The author of this report is a scientific...

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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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... 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 Bolsheviks of creating ... "a broad coalition of Socialist ... ...

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... 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 their own economic ... interests, which hence infringed on the rights of other countries, contributing to the ... ...

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... with an accurate glimpse of American ideology, misperception and thought in the first half of the twentieth century. Even though this book is a collection of lectures where there is obvious subjectivity, Kennan successfully displays an objective view on the topics he discusses in the lecture. Kennan's lecture gives the reader a panoramic view and solid background of American thinking about themselves and the rest of the world, with respect to ... perspective, not just the American perspective. I believe Kennan attempting to be as unbiased as possible in this lecture allows him to give an...

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... 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 ... essay to investigate the thematic scope of this extract in light of...

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... wasteful imbalances" were somehow effective in producing some desired results. "The price was very heavy in human misery and created intolerable pressures, shortages, and great disorganization, but the country was transformed." The Five Year plan that had been completed in four years, and the military benefit of all this was to create factories that could be quickly converted ... to defense production, thus "transforming the Soviet Union from "a weak country, unprepared for defense, to a ... every contingency."" Although industrialization was successful, the Plan was certainly at the ex...

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... - the base of the Soviet "Empire", which has managed to stay at the top for more than five decades, outlived the Second World War, and has been the Motherland to more than half of Europe? Some track the roots of the demise of the Soviet System back to its earliest rise, at its conception as a political ideology, while some throw the blame merely on the decisions of Gorbachev. Were the capitalists right by labeling the Soviet ... , provoked from below and should we consider the factor that the collapse of the regime and the transition was accomplished in a fairly peaceful atmosphere, in t...

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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...

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... itself. 1989 was 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 world power, and ... its subsequent "development-, forced Cuba to adopt new forms of production that ... ...

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