... phase in the progression of democratization, when most of the countries that were part of the Soviet Union started to move away from authoritarianism and entered what today is called, the transition period. The transition paradigm assumed that all transitions from previous political regimes will be towards democracy. Yet, as some cases of the fourth wave of democratization ... region. All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. Although, today all three countries are at similar stations of democratization, it is int...

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... and regain pride in their nation. Furthermore, Germany's economy relied heavily on its militaristic strength, and the shortages created by the Treaty of Versailles, weakened the economy and rendered it unable to support the nation's structural shift into a democracy. This therefore shows how the negative, nationalistic attitudes expressed toward the inherently unstable democracy had a significant impact on the ... the German people, resulting in public outrage. This renewed sense of nationalism further instilled hatred against the new republic under the 'Dolchstosslegende myth'. In...

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... Fritsche. Summary of Evidence Since 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, ... first with an agreement in 19803. Especially in the Seventies, the GDR focused on cooperation with socialistic developing countries like the SRV, because it had a greater bargaining position towards them, regarding their relative wealth in contrast to other socialistic countries. Be...

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... New German Confederation, including a constitution that excluded Austria. The fact that Austria agreed to have no further influence in Germany was a significant reason for the future unification of the States, It allowed Prussia to dominate and removed the, hitherto impeding, factor of Austria's opposition to formal unity. In addition to Austria's removal, Prussia annexed 6 smaller states including Schleswig-Holstein and ... revelation of the secret military alliances between the German States, resulted in France's total isolation. War was, however, not inevitable and when the "final str...

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... the United Kingdom and Italy, which allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland (area along Czech borders) to prevent the onset of a major war. Appeasement has been drastically criticised since it ended in a "humiliating failure" when Germany attacked Poland in 1939 (McDonough, 2002). This essay also evaluates two significant appraisals of the Munich agreement, described in McDonough's ... 2002) assert in their analytical and exhaustive books that confronting Hitler earlier could have avoided war, the appeasement theory looses its entire purpose ( 'Hitlocentric interpretati...

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... (1998) directed by Australian Solrun Hoaas documents the aftermath of the death of the North Korean 'Great Leader', Kim II Sung. Although not a propaganda source itself, within the film it shows the propagandist dictatorship of the country's late leader. The main traditional propaganda technique shown within the documentary, like within Triumph of the Will, is the use of 'appealing ... , shows the use of the traditional propaganda technique of pin-pointing the enemy. This allows the German public to see the Jewish population as intended by the Nazi propagandists as it influence...

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... a leadership role which carries connotations with higher authority and most significantly, respect, they did not want to lose this status, thus ensuring that unification was not going to succeed, it ensured that movement was: "too embryonic to succeed". Austria and Prussia were rivals. Austria and Prussia revelled in each other's miss-fortunes and misgivings and found each other incomprehensible, ... pulling agent, she was pro-liberal and pro-kleindutsch and pro-nationalist, she had the support of the princes which accentuates Prussia did not stand alone in the animosity of it all. Howeve...

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... and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle one another indefinitely without any great catastrophe to mankind. The great geographical discoveries of the sixteenth century had so enlarged ... the people of Europe enjoyed a considerable and increasing prosperity. Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. As provisional it was as no other age has been provisional, an age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gath...

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