... " (61), and yet the ration, like every other daily necessaries, is always on the decrease. Turning now to the real wine OBrien drinks. Of course it has decent color as well as desirable taste. And certainly it is the kind of wine of Winston's dream. Ironically though, when he has the chance to drink it shortly before his arrest, he is not ... in a hysterical mood. (207). Of all the victories, the last one is the most pitiful - it simply reveals that there is no any kind of hope under a totalitarian regime. The book ends with Winston, the defeated hero, has won the victory over himself....

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... the division of Germany, free elections in Poland, and the reparations paid by Germany. These disagreements caused a separation between the Soviet Union and its former Allies (Appendix C: The Warsaw Pact, online). In 1955, the Soviet Union, in direct response to the addition of West Germany into N.A.T.O., formed the Warsaw Pact with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania (The Western ... joint exercises between the countries. These exercises would help bring the armies closer together and keep NSWP countries from being in complete control of their armies (Append...

• Word Count: 1822
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in the use of computers to build a majority literate society in the future. Organised education may be totally by passed in the future with children already learning from home. Interactive online classes are already in place in the US and possibly in the UK, which allow students to 'attend' a class from home, access resource and learning materials on CD-Rom and ... . Possibly all of these different cards carried around could be combined into a universal ID card. One could use the same card to pay for medical care or medical information, take a book out of the library, also as a driver's ...

• Word Count: 1970
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... food industry in Azerbaijan in the year 1991, had 31 percent total industrial production. Light industry had 19 percent, energy industry had 12 percent, and the machine building had 2 percent. Wine making controls the food industry of Azerbaijan, taking up about 50 percent. A city in Azerbaijan just north of Baku, Sumgait, is the nations core for steel, iron, and other metal ... ...

• Word Count: 1382
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• Grade Level: High School

... countries have been only about half the value of imports, with a resulting serious balance of payments deficit in hard currency. Hungary's exports to Western nations have consisted mainly of foodstuffs, wine, and other agricultural products. In 1976 the Soviet Union alone accounted for more than one quarter of Hungary's foreign trade - 27.5 percent of its imports and 30 percent of its ... ...

• Word Count: 1630
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms () without distinction of race, sex, language or religion" (UNESCO.com, 2013, online). According to Briney (2011), nowadays the UNESCO has more than 195 countries members; it is based in Paris and has more than fifty offices distributed in the world. David (2012 ... ...

• Word Count: 1888
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... some ways forced women to be a big part of the Korean War and Wars in general! Learning and researching the Korean War has been a struggle. It took long nights of online research and weeks of reading pages of information I couldn't understand. After flipping through numerous pages of information I finally realized that North Korea and South Korea were not friends if you ... ...

• Word Count: 1955
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... theme is further solidified by its usage of events which mirror those of the Russian revolution. The theme is fully realized right at the end of the book, when the rest of the animals are segregated from the pigs, who are in the former house of Mr. Jones, drinking alcohol with the humans. ... why one may get a different message from watching the movie is that the endings are completely different. As mentioned previously, it is the ending of the book that really drives Orwell's point home. In the movie, this isn't the case at all. At the end of the movie, animals all over the ... nowhere...

• Word Count: 1435
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• Grade Level: High School

... terror shows how life was turned into a nightmare (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 3). Communism and scarcity are forever linked in Stalin's Russia. This is the first book I have ever read on Russia, so while I have nothing else to compare it to, I feel that it has helped my understanding of communism and ... headings that flow in an orderly way to explain what life was really life for average citizens, not elites, during these times. The book was organized topically, starting with a wonderful introduction that helped set out all her points, followed by chapters that were organized to provide in ......

• Word Count: 1652
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... the Russian people struggled to throw off the shackles of the old regime, and different groups raced to seize control of the country. The book is a primary source of history. The author had the journalist's eye for detail, he collected bits of newspapers and handbills, listened to ... believed that the rising in Petrograd and the overthrow of the Tsar had presented them with the opportunity of creating a socialist workers state. The book details the struggle between the Bolsheviks and Kerensky's provisional government as both tried to harness the raw emotion of the Russian people. Reed ...

• Word Count: 1279
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• Grade Level: High School

... are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star ... of a notice by unnamed Gibson III personnel that nuclear holocaust was upon us, is far less believable and again strays away from Franks attempts to keep his book as "realistic" as possible. But never the less, the following mourning after the late night arrival of Randy's brother's family, war b...

• Word Count: 1812
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• Grade Level: High School

... this principal of governing. He used this form of writing to show the worst possible society to avoid using a harsh view of totalitarian life. The book's subject matter starts off with meeting Winston Smith as he traveled home in Airstrip One of Oceania. We are also introduced to Big Brother the main ... antagonist in this book. In the first chapter it is April 4th 1984, Mr. Smith is explaining the dreariness and seemingly destitute city in which he lives in. He ... not alleviated his anger, depression, or rebellion because he still wants to shout profanities at the top of his lungs. He...

• Word Count: 1295
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... success in predicting Ramius' objective was believable, even though his predictions were so far fetched that they were considered crazy by other characters in the book. The actions of Jack Ryan and normal way of living allowed farther development of plot which was completely acceptable to the reader making the story ... who infiltrated the Soviet Union's military projects Vatutin thought he was going to rise in the ranks. Understanding the circumstances described earlier in the book it would have been a normal human reaction of trying to hold the power like Vatutin did. Most humans woul...

• Word Count: 2281
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... about so much more; as long as people walk on two legs and any type of government is present, this book will stay important. The book is written in a very simple way, one which is easy to understand. It can be understood by a wide range of people, ... those of different races and different ages. However, this simple style of writing does not undermine the serious message within the book. Employing allegories and personification to empower his satirical fable, Orwell presents the reader with an excellent example of the good and bad of human nature within politics ... Farm, Napoleon claim...

• Word Count: 1885
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• Grade Level: High School

... characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will be shown by using the symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russian Revolution. Old Major was a prized-boar that belonged to Farmer Jones. The fact that Old Major is himself a ... working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168). Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jones treated his animals...

• Word Count: 1545
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• Grade Level: High School

... characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will be shown by using the symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russian Revolution. Old Major was a prized-boar that belonged to Farmer Jones. The fact that Old Major is himself a ... working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168). Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jones treated his animals...

• Word Count: 1698
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• Grade Level: High School

... a biographical series of many leaders from the past and present. The information presented in her series is objective and informative. The purpose of Tito is to inform the reader. The book is valuable for several reasons. First, it is presented in a reader friendly chronological order for easy access to particular areas. Second, it is filled with links to further readings. Finally ... , the book includes several direct quotes and writings from Tito. The book also includes a bibliography with valid sources. The author, Ruth Schiffman, is also credible. She has taught history and written s...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Grade Level: High School

... the impression that the USSR was progressing towards the betterment of society and the western countries were wrong in their views of democracy. Solzhenitsyn's book holds value in how it enlightens the Soviet citizens about what really happened within Gulag. In reality, life within the camp was not ... without weapons to act as meat shields or detonate hidden mines. The key aspect of the comparison between behavior of the prisoners in Solzhenitsyn's book and the state of mind of normal citizens outside of the Gulag is the importance of family and love. Family and love are what brings .....

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... Roy Medveder. When writing this the author picked six men who had been highly affected by Stalin. He then went in depth on these men. This book did not focus much on that of Kamenov, Zinoviev, or Trotsky. They were mentioned though in times of importance. This source is good to have ... get first-hand accounts from these men. It is from some of these accounts that my information was taken. One limitation that occurred was that the book had to be translated by Harold Shuckman. This leaves room for misinterpretation and some detail might have been missed. The second source that was consulte...

• Word Count: 1632
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Our assignment was to write a paper using Robert F. Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were asked to examine the Cuban Missile Crisis as: a) an example of the Cold War mentality of the early 1960's or b) a ... and sent troops but did not stop the Wall from cutting off thousands of Berliners for 38 years. It is easy to understand Khrushchev's perception that Kennedy was weak. RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States ...

• Word Count: 2306
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of Animal Farm is not difficult to understand. On a simple level of reading the book seems to be telling an animal story whereby a group of farmyard animals decide to overthrow their owner and consequently take charge of the farm. However, George Orwell used Animal Farm ... against him. This is rather similar to the purges carried out by Stalin whereby he removed any individual whom he believed to be against him. By the end of the book it is clear that Napoleon has become a dictator of some kind without the consent or election of the other animals. Old Major is a major character in...

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... church to be preserved a place in heaven, and entirely abolish contradictory information, such as the Westboro Baptist Church. The Westboro Baptist Church is a current example that collectivism, as in the book, forces people into the belief a certain way of thinking is the only way to be allowed. The Westboro Baptist Church is an unaffiliated Baptist church known for its hate speech ... as well because it is all they have ever known. They knew they would never be followed, because everyone else was too afraid to leave. The Uncharted Forest in the book is a representation for life beyond...

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... getting the culture back. Another way the government have helped is they have got more religious places appear, the current president wrote his own religious book and it is held to the Qur'an standards. The book is called Hadith and written by President Niyazov. Another religion that is a very small but important part of the culture is the Baha'i faith it ... ...

• Word Count: 1290
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• Grade Level: High School

... . In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by the writings of many notable researchers and historians on the subject of American Foreign Policy, such as William Appleman Williams and his book The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, many looked to revise the conventional views held to that point. Revisionists challenged the orthodox idea that U.S foreign policy after World War II was anything ... interpretations of the two previous schools without taking a low-road and non-scholastic approach sets it apart from the other two movements. Led by historian John Lewis Gaddis and his book "The United S...

• Word Count: 1800
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... power Castro took control on February 16. Cuba would soon undergo the biggest change that would last forever. Castro's position as a dictator transformed Cuba into a communist country. According to the Book of Knowledge, Castro came to power as a nationalist, but soon began to move toward communism. He opposed that the United States had extensive business interests in Cuba. Castro nationalized foreign ... remains a poor country in debt whose livelihood depends on sugar production and Soviet economic aid. He nonetheless holds the system in place- (Academic American Encyclopedia 192) Acco...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School