... to which innumerable referential names of dubiously nominal importance are bestowed a more than appropriate level of intense execution that can probe the sub-conscious towards a level so deep it has the capability of leaving the reader unconscious. Despite these oblivious detours, The Rebel's true relevance and overall importance to man, more than make up for these occasional deviations into the stupefying expanse of near encyclopedic history. The Rebel's decisive factor is its ... evenhanded examination of Man's story, chronicling this perpetual struggle of Revolution and of his inevit...

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... -Yalta Conference period in April 1945 when even Roosevelt, a perennial optimist, expressed his doubts about cooperating with Stalin. Hence, the Truman Doctrine was merely an articulation of the American policy and intentions expressed and declared in the open. 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 ... in history whereby Truman was still not willing to break ties with the Soviet Union and get involved in a direct confront...

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... history, where leadership conflict played a very small role. Moreover, Lenin's early popular communist measures were changed which in turn was accepted by the party including the removal of worker rights, and the re-institution of conscription and army hierarchy. Furthermore, Lenin introduced a ban on factionalism allowing for a more unified country, and hence, leadership and conflict played ... 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 par...

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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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... 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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... : 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...

• Word Count: 1950
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... 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 ... the national economy between 1975 and the beginning of the "Special Period- was that the pattern of extensive grow...

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... and how that carried over to World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He points out that the American feeling at the time was that the problems that eventually lead to the World Wars were silly "jealousies" and at times "were not worthy of our attention." The United States underestimated the drive and power of Russia, Japan and other nations who were trying to expand their influence ... to other nations. He says that we must learn that every nation has their own agenda and we must learn to work with them because we should not be in the business of picking governments. Kennan continue...

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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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... 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...

• Word Count: 1534
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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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... 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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• Grade Level: Graduate