... were sent to East Germany. In most cases, the state and the citizens of the GDR financed the stay and study of the foreigners through so-called solidarity funds with the goal of putting down a marker against the imperialistic Western States. Unlike the 'brain drain' common in the the USA and other western industrial countries, the fundamental reason that young students from socialist countries attended college in foreign socialist countries was the endeavour the be trained in highly qualified ... issue has lost its currentness for the public since German reunification, in the context of...

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... the Rebel, both righteously battling against 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 As a whole, the main historical references to such ideals and methods find themselves in the French and Russian Revolutions; to a lesser extent, the Marquis de Sade, in his habitually cruel nature,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 ... recurrent premise that Man battles, and thus rebels, against an authority to achieve something better, bec...

• Word Count: 945
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... "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 ... Lenin's policies 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 forefro...

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... made their ways into the factories in order to try and recruit more and more members for their respective parties. While the Mensheviks appeared to the factory workers as intellectuals with no real desire to fight to the bourgeois, the Bolsheviks came to them as comrade workers with a passionate desire to fight the bourgeois to the end. This approached 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 ass...

• Word Count: 1026
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... ." Marx's theory became 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 ... . Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of ...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... anger, causing all negotiations to end in June 1946. The conditions that the US wanted to impose on the USSR's loan 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 ... ...

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... 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 the factor that the collapse of the regime and the transition was accomplished in a fairly peaceful atmosphere, in the absence of external invasion or violent internal upheaval?6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power ... have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group called "Movement for Socialist ... ...

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... 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 to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the ... governor. The latter, for ... ...

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... 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. Kennan explains his ideas ... we have a situation before us which, I am frank to admit, seems to me dangerous and problematical in the extreme." I believe Kenna...

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... of societies. 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 ... of different social status on the basis of gender. The separation between public and private normalizes the ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... ." Marx's theory became 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 ... . Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of ...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... rural support. Its objectives at the beginning of the revolution, in the agricultural sector, were: meet food requirements for the population, generate export earnings, and to provide raw materials for industry (its importance in the greater communist picture). So what would lead this piece of the communist puzzle to radically change its practices to become more self-sufficient? The impossible: the fall of the Soviet Union and the socialist block in Eastern Europe. This single occurrence ... caused the entire communist vision to fall apart ... ...

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