There are two principal interpretations of war communism. ... Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... During the civil war Lenin had geared the economy towards the war against the opposition forces, the various strands of the divided "Whites". ... Ironically, the party which claimed itself the liberators of the workers began to exploit them and working conditions and management seemed to revert to pre-revolutionary practices. ... The Social Revolutionaries and The Mensheviks were prepa...

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The labour relations conflict was compounded during World War I and intensified when the war ended. ... In many ways Winnipeg was at war with itself. ... During the war, every able-bodied person was called to work to help with the war effort. ... In addition to the influx of people and the rise of unemployment, the conclusion of World War I also brought with it the rise of revolutionary industrial unionism and the formation of One Big Union (OBU). Revolutionary industrial unionism is "a broad international movement dedicated to organizing all workers into a single, unified, labour organization...

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The ideals set forth in the Manifesto were destined to influence revolutionaries all over Europe. ... Trier was the oldest city in the Rhineland, and as a result of it's annexation by France in the Napoleonic Wars had been exposed to notions such as freedom of the press, constitutional liberty and religious toleration. ... In 1845 Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of his revolutionary activities. He settled in Brussels and began to organize and direct a network of revolutionary groups, called Communist Correspondence Committees. ... He like many other revolutionaries wer...

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Proudhon was opposed to resorting to violent means and claimed, "Workers alone are capable of putting an end to war by creating economic equilibrium" (Proudhon 214). ... Charles Madison wrote, "He [Bakunin] rejected political action as a means of abolishing the state and developed the doctrine of revolutionary conspiracy under autocratic leadership" (Madison 44). ... He obviously had a great impact on some of the other revolutionaries of his time, and after, yet far from everyone was affected positively. ... Using anarchist in the Spanish Civil war as an example, anarcho-...

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"I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations to the peoples of the world and then shut up shop.... In Austria and Germany there was a wave of strikes, "a spontaneous movement of workers generated by a sudden reduction of bread rations" (Julius Braunthal) however "with strikes alone you can't compel an imperialist government to sign revolutionary peace proposals" (Otto Bauer). ... The result was a successful involvement in Outer Magnolia where a revolutionary party was formed, a provisional government of liberation and a native army, with the "People's...

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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 the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

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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 the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

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From the political point of view, they sinned by the fact that they inevitably, invited the peasant to adopt the attitude of a small proprietor instead of urging him to adopt the point of view of the revolutionary proletarian. ... Initiated by Leo Tolstoy it is best summed up in his own words, spoken in an address to the Swedish Peace Conference of 1909, "We must repudiate one of the two, either Christianity with its love of God and one's neighbor, or the state and its armies and wars."" ...

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The classic socialist ideology of Robert Owen and Karl Marx, that had stood the Labour Party in good stead since its foundation was being re-forged and honed, the post war political scene was evolving into something entirely different to what had gone before. ...

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