The peasants had been demanding their right for own land for ages, and were waiting for land reforms to be putted into force, transferring land from e.g. kulaks to them. The government promised reforms to be brought in later, but the peasants were not willing to wait and even started to take the laws into their own hands and seize land for themselves. ... So when Russia suffered another defeat after the July offensive in Galicia, their ambitions ended in the sink flushing even more of the people's support with it. ...

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The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confronted by an implacably hostile foe for which no amount of Western conciliation would satisfy its global ambitions, came to the defense of freedom and democracy, saving the world from the spread of communist rule.8 This was the fortification needed that would generate policies towards dealing with the Soviet Union such as the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, to which Keenan would also be involved with. ... Revisionists challenged the orthodox idea that U.S foreign policy after World...

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The assassination gave Austria-Hungary the ideal excuse to stop Serbian ambitions once and for all. ... By 1914 Germany has 37 ships to Britain's 57 ships, but both countries were in the process of building more battleships. (17) Each country had its own excuses for increasing the size of their navy. ... France and Britain were torn between supporting their ally Russia and protecting their own commercial, naval and colonial interests in the Balkans. ...

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Eleven of sixteen Arabic countries are heavily dependent on oil and gas rents and most of them even awash in cash; therefore there is no need for taxation of their own citizens (Ibid.). ... Many cannot live normally without a strong, authoritarian government restricts the selfish ambitions and aggressive instincts and protecting people "from themselves." ...

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The Balkan area consists of the modern day countries of Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, and other small nations that border the Black Sea. This area has prominently shaped European history in the nineteenth century and has been one of the topics in major conflicts such as World War I in the early...

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