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 ... and impressive of this particular work and its author, is the total lack of opinionative and thus distorting activities of a meddlesome ...

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... intimate knowledge of political events of the time. Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to long-term research work preferential on the history of international migration and the foreigner policy in the 20th century and his work in the SED Rostock. 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 inclu...

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... 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, ... Stains rule, leadership conflict and differing visions, played a minor role in shaping the history of the Soviet Union, whilst Stalin's decision however played a more important role. Overall, leadership con...

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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 ... of 1917. The support ... ...

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... Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. 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 political isolation, "effectively limiting ... of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also...

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... request were seen as a threat to the communist ideology due to the term of opening up markets. It caused the USSR to boycott the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, signaling their refusal to participate in the reconstruction of the global economy, marking the beginning of the economic schism in Europe. As the economic divide in Europe was seen as an important factor in causing the start of the Cold War due to differing economic ... aims, it could be said that the US dollar diplomacy was aggressive and was responsible in the start of the Cold War. In conclusion, Soviet aggre...

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... 's American Diplomacy provides anyone studying 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 ... subjectively because he was such an authority and had good insight due to his ability to look at the situation from e...

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... 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 to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. The latter ... this extract in light of both Michele Foucault's theory of t...

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... to contradictions and crises. Nevertheless, several attempts to reform the policy have been made – either in the core of the USSR under Khrushchev or in the Soviet-bloc 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 ... liberal and free-market as well, even a greater freedom regarding the populace's private life, however was the shift from the powerful Soviet entity towards Democracy, provoked from below and should we consider ...

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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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... Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. 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 political isolation, "effectively limiting ... of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also...

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... against pollution should be independent of nationality. Again, it was best said in the Communist Manifesto, while interchanging the word communist for environmentalist: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."" In the particular case of environmentalism, the traditional idea of property ownership must be abandoned, for environmental problems are tans boundary ... to one for every 200 people, and electricity has reached 90% of the population (up from...

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