... 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 vast intellectual worth, rather than ... archetypical storyline. Camus defines the Rebel one who "undoubtedly demands a certain degree of freedom for himself; but in no case, if he is consistent ... , does he demand the right to destroy...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... role, whilst Lenin's leadership and rather the party's ability to adapt to the needs of the country shaped its history. The response to the Krondstadt rebellion saw great division within the party with Kollontai and others very angry about it. The NEP sparked a series of debates and ultimately brought the downfall of many party members and the rise of Stalin, where differing vision and leadership ... attempt to modernise Russia, Stalin made sure his ideology and view was the view of that of the country, and achieved is through the process of collectivisation and industrialisation of Rus...

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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 ... to happen between the two superpowers. In the case of Greece, the Greek Civil War and the involvement of the Greek co...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... : 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 the GDR. In most instances these considerations came from ... interests in this agreement and the situation of the contract workers. The author of this report is a...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." This temporary law became a "dictatorship of the proletariat, and instructed his followers go use both corruption and the threat of general extermination" to ensure the authority of the temporary dictatorship. As a self-willed Lenin disciple, Stalin became a member of the Politburo, the inner council of Bolshevism . Around the time of Lenin's death, Stalin was able to use his leadership ... cooperative farms within five years. Along with the Collectivization of farms...

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... gave way to the rise of the 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 Provisional Government with the popular support of the Russian people, especially ... show a decline in support not only from the Bolshevik's fellow coalition...

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• Has Bibliography
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... 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 ... ...

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... to adopt, the outcome of the situation is inevitable. The "revolution" and the revaluation of ideas, leading to the collapse of the USSR, officially in 1991, were formed from "above". Whether the bourgeois results of Glasnost or Perestroika unleashed this sudden process of shifting towards Capitalism, the fact that the Soviet Union crashed immediately after the introduction of the market reforms, speaks about a weakening and leakage of the socialist ideology within the core of the ruling party. Some ... argue that the failure of ... ...

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... 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," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972 ... ) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective ...

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... a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." This temporary law became a "dictatorship of the proletariat, and instructed his followers go use both corruption and the threat of general extermination" to ensure the authority of the temporary dictatorship. As a self-willed Lenin disciple, Stalin became a member of the Politburo, the inner council of Bolshevism . Around the time of Lenin's death, Stalin was able to use his leadership ... cooperative farms within five years. Along with the Collectivization of farms...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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 on t...

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... 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 best addresses the problem of international cooperation, for if the problem of pollution ... . 1989 was the beginning of the "Special Period."" With hindsight, the...

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