... 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 As a whole, the main historical references to such ideals and methods find themselves in the French and Russian Revolutions; to a lesser extent, the Marquis de Sade, in his habitually cruel nature,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 ... fighting man himself, as well as ideological divisions that corrupt Man's utopian ideals). Nonetheless, The Rebel is not without its hindering facets of...

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... had taken power as an enlightened minority acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. It was ideology, not a mandate, that legitimized the party." Stalin's brutal policy-enforcement and paranoid terrorism entailed tremendous suffering and loss of life; the interests of the individual were entirely sacrificed to those of the state in the advancement of the sacred task of the Socialist revolution. "Stalin inherited a system that resorted ... rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million peo...

• Word Count: 1533
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... 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 Bolsheviks the power to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution ... not be recalled from the Western Front, the soldiers began to seek information on a...

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... 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 ... its early needs for it, as time passed by debates aroused on the future; Bukharin wanting to continue the NEP and Trotsky wanting to remove it. Such differing ideologies, created different pathways for the pa...

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... the Congress in March 1948. The latter cemented the economic divide in Europe, and the Soviets responded with the Molotov Plan. However, though undeniable that this economic divide was due to the new direction in American policy articulated first in the Truman Doctrine, the decision made by the Congress to pass the Marshall Plan was still largely due to the increased Soviet threat as seen from the Czechoslovakian Coup in February 1948. Furthermore, even though the Truman Doctrine was the ... negotiations to end in June 1946. The conditions that the US wanted to impose on the USSR's loan...

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... -1990, compiled by Eva-Maria and 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 was often unexamined and ... overlooked, and reflect of not yet evaluated primary source material. This is supported by the biography ... ...

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... 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 System as unviable ... , that distinguished him and helped him reach the top? Gorbachev seemed to have proven his loyalty towards the Marxist-Leninist doctrine, especially towards Stalin, in his teenage years. ...

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... as a survival mechanism in the new political regime. The animals internalization of these attitudes, despite Napoleon's absence from public scenes, indicates their conforming to the image of prisoners in Foucault's panopticon. The Panopticon was a design for a prison produced by Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century which grouped cells around a central viewing tower. Despite the invisibility of the guardian in that tower to the prisoners, the latter where constantly seized by the feeling that they ... authority over the animals. The relationship between the oppressor and the opp...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... had taken power as an enlightened minority acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. It was ideology, not a mandate, that legitimized the party." Stalin's brutal policy-enforcement and paranoid terrorism entailed tremendous suffering and loss of life; the interests of the individual were entirely sacrificed to those of the state in the advancement of the sacred task of the Socialist revolution. "Stalin inherited a system that resorted ... rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million peo...

• Word Count: 1534
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... American politics 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 events leading up to the conflict with the Soviets. As a result, Kennan gives a clearly articulated picture of his thoughts ....

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... emphasized individualism, self-interest and liberty, and the East stressed collectivism and equality. But since the demise of socialist system in 1991 and then the triumph of liberal capitalism as well as the western-style democracy, the post-Cold War claimed that liberal democracy lays foundation for a new world order led by the U.S. hegemony which aligns democracy with the western emphasis on "civil and political right". For example, articles 25 ... of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right [ICCPR] sets out the formulations of the right: every citizen shall have the r...

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... indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. This is perhaps the most problematic aspect of this issue, for the solution depends on the coordination and cooperation of all major governments, regardless of political differences. Again, a parallel between the proletariat and the environment can be seen in the manifesto when it says: "they [the struggles] point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independent of all nationality."" This quote ... human labor on smaller individual plots of land, and the distribution of personal responsibility fo...

• Word Count: 3463
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