... as to determine whether or not the communist and environmentalist ideals meet and complement each other. It would appear that they have indeed met, for Fidel Castro himself has said: "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 debt, not the external debt. ... Fight hunger, not people."" Indeed, this is quite the direction Cuba is moving in, for the National Program for Environment and Development, which is Cuba's version of Agenda 21, includes five chapte...

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... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party ... his government of any potential threats. By 1928, Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arr...

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... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party ... his government of any potential threats. By 1928, Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arr...

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... breaking down the party. Once Stalin was in control, part ideology and leadership all came under his leadership. Following the successful revolution, the first 6 months of power was to a small extent shaped by differing visions and leadership conflict, with Russia following one ideology, led by an undisputed Lenin whilst conflict arousing from the peace treaty. Since pre-revolution ... role. The civil war s a crucial time period for the Bolsheviks, where survival was key resulting in a committed single vision leading the Bolsheviks, whilst some of Trotsky's decisions led to debates, it w...

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... 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 reform was essential, a more liberal and free-market as well, even a greater freedom regarding the populace's private life, however was the shift ... discrimination based on political and religious beliefs, plurality of socialist parties, providing a larger choice etc. In any case, adopted from the manifesto or not, Gorbachev's aim througho...

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... Plague; most notable among their common literary characteristics, equally evident in The Rebel as well, is the conspicuously frequent inspection of Man's struggle against the Absurd. Nevertheless, due to Camus's nature as an existentialist philosopher as well as writer, the absence of such assessments would thus disqualify him from his particularly gripping sector of 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 t...

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... the greatly different aspects between masculinity and femininity. At this point, it could be briefly said that these two genders steadily represent and argue about democracy in different dimensions. To begin with, masculinity's perspectives on democracy, widely held by the western and other developing countries, represent that liberal democracy is mainly constructed as a representative political process. In ... are based on a male standard, focusing attention on individual instances of inequality rather than on the systemic socioeconomic structures that subordinate women. Therefore, wom...

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... was arguably an important cause of the Cold War as it provided the framework for later American policies as part of the containment policy to contain Soviet expansionism. American intervention was called for when countries faced Soviet pressure, hence setting the direction for subsequent policies such as the ... importance of the Truman Doctrine is further limited when considering the fact that this public declaration was presented in such a way that indicated Truman's reluctance to directly confront or provoke the Soviets. The fact that Truman made no mention of the terms 'Soviets...

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... the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949, the country struggled with a basic 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 int...

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... that have opted for self-discipline 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 ... of the former. In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxi...

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... 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. Kennan explains his ideas in a manner which the average college level student could ... understand, but does it in a sophisticated manner, which is refreshing. Kennan compares American security ideas to the Roman Empire because Americans had a sense of security and superiority t...

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... Bolshevik party at the helm of the Russian government. The Provisional Government's transitory presence is littered with examples of exceedingly apparent ineptitude in making way for change and an adherence to prior Imperial policies despite the abdication of Nicolas II in March of 1917. Seven months after the Provisional Government's formation, the Bolsheviks took command of Petrograd and disbanded 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 thei...

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