... to be to Winston. Who believes he is a fellow conspirator, but who in reality becomes Winston's torturer and "rehabilitator." Neither O'Brien nor the party can tolerate Winston's betrayal of the government. O'Brien tells his victim, "You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that ... "really" occurs in the Oceania world. In 1984, "the memory of individuals, is effectively manipulated, programmed, and controlled from the outside by the party" (Kolakowski 127). People don't know what they are truly remembering, and what is "told " to them. Showing how serious the manipulation...

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... from the Enver Hoxha University at Tiranë though the streets of the capital shouting slogans and demanding an end to dictatorship. By December 11, the number of participants had reached almost 3,000. In an effort to quell the student unrest, which had led to clashes with riot police, Alia met with the students and agreed to take further steps toward ... outbreak of an all-out civil war, President Berisha appointed a Socialist, Bashkim Fano, to lead a government of national reconciliation. He also promised new legislative elections in June 1997. The Socialist Party won control of the asse...

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... it would be; "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Marx claimed that; "The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up ... were not those of a capitalist society but simple peasants, uneducated and illiterate, and therefore unable to be politically competent. For this reason the vanguard party was created to govern in the place of the masses until they were educated. Another obvious digression from Marxist theory can be...

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... Khrushchev attempt to narrow the gap in economic inequality and the standard of living, bring forth educational reforms, and propose reforms within the party hierarchy, but like future problems with the reforms to come, the problems that Khrushchev wanted to deal with or change were essential features of ... revering the Tsar as a god in earlier Russia, maybe not so much as a god now, but out of fear. Basically movement within the party halted. At this point the Soviet Union is burdened by an enormous bureaucracy. Kenez states: "Ministries proliferated, not only on the union level but ...

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... in war. As a result of such unyielding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 of these, 450 went to prison. However, these numbers are small in comparison ... America, had split because of a dilemma over World War I. This split occurred when Europe entered the war. This break up hurt the Socialist party. Many who were not Socialists opposed the draft, but the party was the point of opposi...

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... to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and that didn't trust the government's promises and actions. As Gorbachev was gaining power quickly in the Party, he introduced some radical reforms that he believed would benefit the country. His reform policies of "Perestroika", "Demokratizatsiya" and "Glasnost" meant restructuring, democratization and openness. The purpose ... Czechoslovakia peacefully transferred their power to the reformers. In Romania, the communist Party of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and by the force of arms in Decembe...

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... in Eastern Europe. The reformation of Gorbachev was an excellent example to prove this. Under the rule of Lenin, there could be only one party, which was the Communist, to run the government. Opposition parties were all eliminated. This was different from Marx's originally intention to have a state ... refused to accept the Russian general Rokossovsky as the Polish Minister for Defense. Khrushchev sought for solution in negotiating with the Polish. Both sides reached compromise. The restoration of position of Gomulka, the nationalist communist imprisoned by Stalin, led to the agreement o...

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... the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik party would not have been able to cling to power during 1920 and 1921. The Kronstadt mutiny is an example Christopher Read uses to justify the lengths ... to make up the '100 year gap' as Stalin termed it. With Lenin's Death in 1924 Stalin (after a political battle for the party) took on the responsibility of seeing Lenin's vision of a economically strong communist Russia through. Like Lenin, Stalin was willing to use Terror, force ... ...

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... their highest state of readiness. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by the U.S. Fortunately, the leaders reached a compromise, but this was the true height of the cold war and it was truly the dividing moment between the US and USSR. Khrushchev ... modernized. Perestroika In the mid-1980s, faced by a slowdown in economic growth rates, the Central Committee of the CPSU reached the conclusion that the economic management system of the Soviet Union had become incompatible with the nation's level of development. The Central Committee's...

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When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the ... Marx insisting that they drop this form and create a Manifesto. Though every modern edition of the Manifesto carries the names of Marx and Engels, the text that reached London in time for the second congress of the Communist League was written by Karl Marx alone(Wheen 119). The document is divided into four sections with prefaces for ... class, and the increasing poverty of workers would spark a successful...

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... the balance of trade; they would export more than they import. In 1973, British desired an increase in trading rights but emperor Qianlong refused. Sometime after this demand, China has reached a period of decline. Then the Industrial Revolution had created a need for extended markets in European goods. In the 1800's, Western nations began to use their rising power and glory to ... to peasants. The Communists became known as "The Red Bandits" and Jieshi wanted them gone. He began to organize extermination campaigns to get rid of them. In 1934 the Communist party had made a stand and tra...

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... markets to generate income, and in 1993-94, the local governments in Tatarstan and Yakutia sought economic decentralization in Russia by refusing to pay federal taxes. Consequently, an agreement reached between the federal government and the republics gave the latter what they wanted: increased economic autonomy (Drobizheva). Of paramount importance is the economic and political realities facing both Moscow ... that characterized the state socialist system. But the separation between the public and private sphere is not clearly defined in Russian society. The penetration and coercivenes...

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... of freedom, but an old and historical one: "The communal relationship into which the individuals of a class entered, and which was determined by their common interests over and against a third party, was always a community to which these individuals belonged only as average individuals, only in so far as they lived within the conditions of existence of their class---a relationship in which ... productive forces and forms of intercourse have developed so far that, under the domination of private property, they have become destructive forces, and because the contradiction between the clas...

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... where several countries had succumbed to communism despite America's best efforts to stop the widening and spreading of communism. In China, the Chinese Communist Party had won the elections in 1949 and was now in power. The Soviet's didn't pay much attention to China at that stage but the ... happened. It was a big blow to the Truman administration and some thought more economic and militaristic aid should have been offered to the Democratic Party of Chine but it was widely accepted that "intervention of such scope and magnitude would have been resented by the mass of the Chinese peopl...

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... him according to his abilities, to him according to his needs." But this did not happen in the Soviet Union. Since Stalin was the sole party leader he controlled all means of production but he did not distribute the goods evenly. This led to widespread famine and starvation which was just one ... everyone was an angel, it must be expected that people will take advantage of the system. Another concern is the power a communist society allows one party complete control. It has been said that, "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and so far this has been evident in such nations as the Sovie...

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... there were over 200 Communists in the State Department (Feuerlicht, 55). And some 57 cases of people who fall into the category of card - carrying Communists, loyalist of the Communist Party, or risks to the nation (Divine, 265). Despite the issue of Communists in America there was a bigger issue, Communist spies. Though the truth of the matter is that all countries ... fall of McCarthy people and countries still spy on each other. Only now the spying has passed the level it was at during the McCarthy years (Feuerlicht, 152). The spying reached its peak when in 1967 it was ordered by pr...

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... having more children to help with the work and produce more. Lack of space in Urban area's induced pressure on couples not to have more children. A satisfying compromise was never reached between the two mitigating factors of urban and rural family needs. Thus, an ineffective initiative was implemented. Due to the ineffectiveness of the law, compliance became a problem, especially in the ... the patriarchal interests of the state. In each case there were women who attempted to challenge the privileged status of men. But then there were also women enlisted by the party-state to reorient ...

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