... rise of a proletariat, or laboring class. As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In this utopian setting, all class distinctions would be abolished as would ... The Communist Manifesto which which called for a huge revolt. It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!" Many peop...

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... believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop on and caper like troops of ferocious Baboons." The ... allies felt they must try and crush the Bolshevik movement and sent in fourteen thousand troops, however, they failed to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U....

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... , an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former Socialist strongholds which were all along the eastern seaboard of the US. There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. These conditions of despair were in part due to the exclusion of immigrants from unions and their not ... September, steel workers struck. All of the available blame was put upon the American Communists, although many communists tried to oppose this strike. Nationalist Americans called for a halt to this "B...

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... violence is not a good thing, it is detrimental to both the individual and society. However, in order to institute communism, (which is the greatest good according to Marx) a revolution is necessary. Revolution does not necessarily mean violence. However, in this case violence will be difficult to avoid, and Marx states that violence may be necessary. Marx wrote several passages regarding this ... successful. The collapse of European communism has had other implications as well. It has put a halt to the development of European socialism. After the 1870's, Marxism dominated Europe. The Bol...

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... machine"), and the industrial reserve army (the theory that capitalism creates unemployment as a means of keeping the workers in check) (Jewish Virtual Library).] Marx expands on the issue of revolution in the final part of Das Kapital. He argued that the laws of capitalism would bring about its destruction. Capitalist competition will lead to a diminishing number of monopoly capitalists; while ... form of government, under the rule of a Tsar. The revolution of 1905 was a failure, although it did cause the Tsar to make some changes to the government. The changes solved nothing, and unre...

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... disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism "later known as the Communist Party "led by Lenin (Foreman 123). From its inception, Communist rule in the Soviet Union faced a variety of ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet in its isol...

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... disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism-later known as the Communist Party-led by Lenin (Foreman 123). From its inception, Communist rule in the Soviet Union faced a variety of problems. In ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet...

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... were largely uneducated and had no history or experience in the process political participation. In 1917 the czarist rule collapsed and disappeared. After a lengthy period of political unrest and bloody revolution the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism took control. This faction would later come to be known as the Communist Party. This party was led by a man named Lenin (Foreman, 87). Communist ... dissolution of the USSR (Foreman, 23). The original communist state had a very troubled past and complicated and strained relationship with the rest of the world. The Soviets had always urg...

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... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

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... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

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... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

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... first attempt to change the existing order in the Russian Empire. The revolts after it were also unsuccessful until World War I, which served as a powerful catalyst for deep change. The Bolshevik Revolution was supposed to bring changes to many aspects of Russian people's lives. And it did bring a 99% literacy rate, the development of heavy industry, urbanization of the former agricultural country ... ...

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... who would not give blind obedience to his regime and adulation to himself. Not much was needed for Stalin to sign a death warrant you need only share a surname with a former Bolshevik leader and you were sentenced. The most important thing, however, remains that you were to believe only in what Stalin believed, as if he were God, no one and nothing ... way of thinking. The secret police ensured communist ideology was taught. The arts were also controlled by the state, artists were encouraged to paint massive portraits of Stalin and the revolution, musicians and film-makers work was to b...

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