... into being for many reasons: class struggle, nationalism, and a need for a better way of life. However the biggest reason that totalitarian government came into play was because of the Great Depression. Three nations in particular were able to model this take over by using the lower classes ... taking over factories. And with the pope lifting the ban on Catholics, there were an increasing number of different opposing factions in government making an already unstable government worse. Mussolini, a nationalist and fascist, steps in asking for a greater sense of nationalism. He helps this i...

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... plans by which he would be able to develop a new republic now the 300 year monarchy had ended. Germany's attitudes were of hope, like Lenin's, but for different reasons. Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were ... helping to spreading Revolution. Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could ... Marxist channels". Although Lenin did not play a significant role in the February Revolution, his role in the second revolution, "a planned coup...

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... plans by which he would be able to develop a new republic now the 300 year monarchy had ended. Germany's attitudes were of hope, like Lenin's, but for different reasons. Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were ... helping to spreading Revolution. Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could ... Marxist channels". Although Lenin did not play a significant role in the February Revolution, his role in the second revolution, "a planned coup...

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... sense and our able to see that he in his time did face and observe social inequality. Karl Marx was born to a prosperous lawyer in western Germany. Even before he was born, his small hometown of Trier , was now under the control by Prussia. As Marx came into adulthood, he knew ... he became apart of a group called the young "Hegelians", they followed the teaching of French philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel. His thinking on the monarchy, the Prussian Government and Christianity appealed to a young Marx. He soon became a popular radical and made a name for himself. He began to see first ha...

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... seven Vladimir Lenin was named president of the Society of People's Commissars (Communist Party). The problems of the new government were enormous. The war with Germany was ended immediately. Though Russia lost the bread basket of the Ukraine to Germany this was soon regained when Germany was ultimately defeated in the war. Land was redistributed, some as collective farms. Factories, mines, banks and utilities ... January 21, 1924. Traits of a Leader Lenin showed many characteristics of a good leader, making him ultimately a better leader than his successors, where downplayed by America...

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... became very unpopular. The Petrograd Soviet of Workers" and Soldiers" Deputies, a huge collection of soldiers, workers and socialist, constantly weakened the provisional government with its own laws and orders. Army Order No. 1 was such an order. This order disposed of power given to military officers and gave ... in April of 1917, Lenin began his conquest to reawaken his revolutionary socialist ideals. His leadership became the driving force that the current provisional government lacked. He became the leader the party needed, and set about gaining support for his ideas from peasants and...

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... (Liversidge, 35). This backlash from the community "fostered hatred and bred a revolutionary attitude in him. The chasm between himself and the system of government that had destroyed Alexander would never be bridged he would despise the liberal society which had deserted his family in its distress" (29-30). From ... hardly achieved under his short ruling. When the Bolsheviks came to power after their overthrow of the Provision Government, Lenin was in a precarious position. In the midst of World War I and taking a beating by Germany, his first task was to "put an end to the war at once...

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... above ideological purity. Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. Although these revolutionary intelligentsias established a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and pragmatic reforms that placated the masses, the working class were volatile and indecisive in their loyalties due to ... the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed on 3rd March 1918, as the party forged a reluctant alliance with Capitalism. Lenin realized that Russia was too frag...

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... of the twentieth century. "Fascisms main objective was to provide a quasi-religious alternative to Marxism" . This political surprise was a new social, political and economic system, which would overcome government dichotomies such as, private vs. public as well as individual vs. collective decisions. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can ... was faced with false, disloyal leaders, and Mussolini came and augmented Italy and became the spokesman of a nation betrayed by its leaders, who could only make Italy ...

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... said this. He was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary in the nineteenth century. Karl was born in a middle class home in Trier, Germany on May 5, 1818. His family came from a long line of Rabbis. At seventeen years old Karl enrolled in the faculty of law at the University ... journalism. In October of 1842 he because the editor of Rheinsone Zeitung. This was a newspaper. He wrote articles on economic questions, but then the Prussian Government forced the newspaper to close. Karl then moved to France. While in France he went to Paris and become a communist. He t...

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... are lazy. Those in opposition of Communism say that America is a world leader in many statistics. Isn't that evidence democracy is the best form of government? Since countries first formed, they have made a system to govern and keep track of their economic and social situation. While many governments have evolved there ... care. Those are the type of government morals that are abolished with the concept of Communism. While there is no current Communistic country that is a world power, there is also no country in the world that uses pure Communism. In the past, countries such as Germany ...

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... would receive monetary bonuses. In response, the factories narrowed the size of cloth, producing more feet of unusable textile. This irrational outcome would not have occurred in a capitalist government where the usefulness of the product would be a paramount consideration. Rather than emphasizing job security of citizens, capitalism prefers harder and more efficient workers over less efficient workers. Although ... to natural resources, after which it allows private enterprises to trade and manufacture products as they please. In reality, this produces the best standard of living, henc...

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... of the modern state"1; the peasants were requesting land; the proletariat needed higher wages and better working conditions; the bourgeoisie needed political changes to make Russia a genuine majority ruled government; and each of the three classes were demanding an end to the war. More than anything, it was the war which spelled the end of Tsarism. By 1917, losses numbered ... . Lenin's pragmatic decision making was instrumental, in avoiding an even greater number of war casualties. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918. Lenin had...

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... about the same time, but it took different courses in each country. The most complex development was in France, where several different schools emerged. From France the doctrines spread into Germany, where they were absorbed by Karl Marx. In time he came to dominate the whole movement. After him socialism would always be defined as either Marxist or non-Marxist. Most ... the economic system. Socialist parties were in the minority but were regarded as a serious threat by both government and capitalists. The year 1848 was a critical point in socialist history. A series of revolts broke ou...

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... working class would overthrow the upper class and create a class-less society. After this was published, there were revolutions in France and Germany. Marx was kicked out of Belgium, because the government feared that a revolution would occur. He was banned from Germany and France in 1849. He then moved to London, England, where he spent the rest of his life. One of his ... ...

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... areas; the grain production of peasants was seized in order to feed the Red Army. Many people criticized the harsh actions taken by the government. Thousands of peasants were rebelling against the seizing of their grain and workers in many cities were engaging in strike activity. The Kronstadt sailors, ... who had been strong supporters of the Bolsheviks, staged an open rebellion against the new government. The Red Army was called in to put out the rebellion and many died. The Red Army was victorious despite its many enemies. With ... a result of the Civil War. Many serious debates took ...

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... time for Stalin to concentrate on agriculture. His idea was to collectivize all the farms so that they could produce more and be owned by the government. People would not be able to own their own farms or sell their own goods and in 1929 this begane. The farmers that worked on these ... farms had to hand over a certian amount of the produce no matter what to the government. With all the farms collectivized the fields could be plowed more effiencantly and more could produce much more crops. Collectivization had turned Russias agriculture into new ... sighned to give Russia time to build ...

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... because taxes and foreign investment had to increase. Eventually, these problems with food shortages and the poor economy led to dissatisfaction of the government by the citizens, helping cause the Russian Revolution. Industrializing Russia was going to be a big problem for the urban working class, creating ... this rule, because under the czar they had no civil liberties, political or intellectual freedoms, and no social legislation or representation in the government. These corrupt leaders did not want to modernize Russian, and were strongly against introducing the ideas of the French...

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... from fascism. Fascism is emerged from Italy by Mussolini, but nazism is raised from Germany by Hitler. A differences between fascism and nazism economy. Economy of fascism depends on trades or public, but economy of nazism depends on government. Hitler says that, "We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic ... to destroy this system under all conditions." In this sentence we see that nazism is interested economy on government. Another differences between fascism and nazism is that while fascist ideology adopts conservatives ideology and nationalism, nazism adopts secularis...

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... (as the term is commonly understood) seeks similar ends but by evolution rather than revolution. Socialism, general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods. In a broader sense, the term socialism is often used loosely to describe economic theories ranging from those that ... means of production, in which personal profit can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of labor. Capitalism is grounded in the concept of free enterprise, which argu...

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... which would generate the difficulties that would culminate in the Second World War. As early as 1933 FDR recognized the Soviet government in Russia (the USSR). This was done by an assignment of debts claimed against and owed to the Soviet government by foreign, especially U.S. creditors and debtors, to the U.S. This was done by the so-called Litvinov Assignment and an Executive ... Agreement. Whether one liked or disliked the form of government that country had, we still had to deal with that government. The major industrial nations were in a worldwide depression and FDR took a risk on ...

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... In addition to unions, new political parties such as the Socialist party in France and the Social Democratic Parties of Sweden, Austria, and Germany developed to help working class issues. Women joined these parties, however, many opposed their presence and as a result overlooked all of ... their affairs. The lack of women in unions and political parties paralleled women's segregation from the government. Due to the horrid conditions of the working class, the fraudulent success of industrialization, and the disruption of migration, social problems arose. ... social development into polit...

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... the Russian Revolution. The animals and the events in George Orwell's novel parallel the characters and incidents of the Russian Revolution. Orwell laments that the 1917 Russian Revolution resulted in a government more totalitarian and oppressive than the one it overthrew. Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin ... now assumed the name Stalin which is the Russian word for "steel" combined with "Lenin". In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. This was when the government led by t...

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... country. Or it may be a feeling of love or pride for your own country; a feeling that your country is better than any other."" Nationalism was (or is) frequently used by a government (which not rare consists of one single person) for convincing the public of intentions. The purpose is to make people feel that they belong together (they should see themselves as ... by the kings and obviously, they wanted to keep their power. If they would have inspired the inhabitants to think in a nationalistic way, inhabitants would have claimed a lot from the government because they thought they weren...

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... thinking. He revolutionized the thinking of "modern" times and the social classes. He was a German Social Philosopher, Revolutionary, and Radical. Karl Marx, himself, was born into the middle-class in Germany in May of 1818. He went to some of the best Universities, including the University of Berlin and the University of Bonn where he studied law. Marx wrote many papers ... will form from the struggle and conflict between the peasant and the nobility classes. This conflict will bring an end to the nation-states and all forms and kinds of government. The workers will be living in a para...

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