... it... It is necessary to prepare men that devote to the Revolution not just their free evening, but their entire lives- (Pipes Concise 39). This is the sort of fanaticism that propelled the Bolsheviks to power. Their party (more of an ideological order) had very strict ideological criteria ... against its alleged enemies, the Bolsheviks would seize power by occupying strategic points through the capital city. This was to occur during the night preceding the opening session of the Second Congress of Soviets on October 25. The next day, the congress would have to ratify the abolition ... ...

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... joint organization with Turkey was a sign of improving relations with one another. However, despite official visits and diplomatic excursions, Turkey and Armenia were not able to establish concrete relations (Iskandaryan 39). Diplomatic relations between both countries faced problems which ultimately led to a deadlock in negotiations. An example of this was how Turkey argued that Armenia did not officially recognize the existing ... border between the two countries as established by the 1921 treaties of Kars and Gumru (Iskandaryan 39). Since the closure of the border in 1993, actions ou...

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... and did not want him as their leader. Kamenev read Lenin's Testament (the document containing his wishes) to the leaders of the party in secret before the opening of the Twelfth Congress of Soviets. The leaders decided to let Stalin stay in position. It was to be a fateful decision. Stalin has been compared to the ruthless Tsar; his methods, like the ... ...

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... reactors was damaged. Measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Those affected by it are being given assistance. A government commission has been set up" (Greenwald 39). It has been said that if the Soviet Government had acted earlier many lives would have been saved. Evacuations were also discriminatory, according to Jessica Lee. She stated that, "Increased ... ...

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... human civilization." Einstein also commented that had he known then, that his discovery of the nuclear theories would lead to this, he would have become a locksmith instead (Lawton, pg 39). President Truman was silent for nearly 20 years regarding the topic of the nuclear bombs. When he finally spoke, onFebruary 1965, he said: "It was a question of saving hundreds ... ...

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... the ruble increased through the years. Russia was forced to declare a debt default and the government placed a moratorium on all payments. In the decade leading to 2001, the GDP fell 39% (See Appendix A). Most of Russia's emerging problems were due to economic inequality, which was supported by privatization. Yeltsin introduced the shares-for-loans program which was meant to sell off ... ...

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... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

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... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

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... in, doctors said it was impossible for him to survive the tragic accident. This was a tragic event in History that left the United States in mourning. The next day about 2:39 p.m., Johnson became the 36th president of the United States. There were many suspects of who killed the president. There hasn't been exact proof of who did the assassination but the ... ...

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... resist the blockade, JFK wrung his hands, "What would you do then, if we went through all of this effort and then find out that there's baby food on it?- [39].The humiliation of boarding a ship full of baby food would be miniscule compared to blowing up thousands of people in an air attack and subsequent invasion. Besides, RFK's surprise that ... ...

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... the Soviet Union because they wanted to acquire further territories in Southeast Asia, and they were hesitant in attacking the Soviets because they had lost badly to them in 1938-39 proved detrimental to the German war effort. Not only were they completely unmoved by the idea of the attacking the Soviet Union they also formed a treaty with them as well ... ...

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... , and 1984 In George Orwell's, "1984", no individual freedoms are present. It mirrors mid twentieth century Europe during World War II and its affects. Winston the main character who is a 39-year-old man, was neither remarkable in intelligence nor character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, where history and the ... ...

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... the world sizeable elements were seriously considering the virtues of communism, for few wanted a return to the failed capitalism of the pre-war era." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause of a possible next World ... ...

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... many in a chain of direct and indirect correspondence amid the White House and the Kremlin during the course of the conclusion of the contingency. Kennedy furthermore used national television that night in order to update the citizens of the unraveling intensification in Cuba, his judgment to institute and administer a quarantine, and the impending international penalties if the crisis relentlessly persisted to ... a lingering diplomatic resolve. They decided that the best answer was for Kennedy to pay no attention to the second Khrushchev letter and only reply to the first one. Later t...

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Why Was Official Revolutionary Rhetoric No Longer Able To Conceal The Reality Of The Authoritarian One-party State In Eastern Europe In The Late 1980s? On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. Earlier that day, the Communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic ... had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. Thousands of East Germans streamed into the West, and in the course of the night, celebrants on both sides of the wall began to tear it down. The collapse of the Berlin W...

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The Creation of The Peace Corps "On the night of October 13, 1960, in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon, his rival for the Presidency of the United States, in the third of their nationally televised debates. ... after the debate, Kennedy and his campaign party flew to Michigan, where he was scheduled to speak briefly at the university at Ann Arbor. It was about 2:00 AM, the night was clear and mild and somewhat to the campaign party's surprise, a very large turnout of students, estimated at ten thousand, had waited up for the senator. Making his way to ... the Student ...

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... Russian people, under the conditions of the Soviet regime of violence and suppression of all freedom, cannot accomplish even at the cost of tremendous sacrifices, blood and tears." On the night of September 5, 1945, Igor Gouzenko stole 109 documents proving of the espionage activities in Canada. Within these documents were the names of the people involved and their positions within the ... the documents he needed, he quickly made his way to Ottawa Journal. The greeting he received, however, was that of no interest. The night editor, Chester Frowde found it difficult to believe what he w...

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... of sacrifice and denial of individual needs. There was particular emphasis on transport and consumer goods. Resulting from the emphasis placed on heavy industry, new factories and towns appeared over night. In 1929 there were eleven million industrial workers, by 1933 there were over thirty eight million employed. Russian production increased by 250% between 1929 and 1933. The Donbass coal industry ... political reasons between the years 1937 and 1938 as a result of the Stalinist revolution. Arrest for all involved was an unexpected and terrible experience, almost always accompanied by ...

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... dispensary he sees only Kolya Vdovushkin, the medical assistant, on duty. He tells the young man that he feels sick, but Vdovushkin tells him he should have reported in last night, since the list has already been sent to the planning department. Shukhov knows that it is even harder to get on the list at ... night, but Vdovushkin is only allowed to exempt two men in the morning, and he has already submitted their names. He gives Shukhov a thermometer. While he is taking his temperature, Shukhov ... ...

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... wrote. "This first stage of the revolution born of war will neither be the last, nor confined to Russia." On his arrival at St Petersburg station soviet historians describe the night "He achieved to save the revolution from the specter of a Tsarist restoration.(8) This quote alone can convey that without Lenin arriving and pushing his ideas of socialism and revolution the ... never have taken place. It is known that other Bolshevik leaders were frightened and in disagreement with the ideas Lenin proclaimed to his crowd at the St Petersburg station that night. The April theses as it was ...

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... changed the seven commandments of Animal Farm, the commandments that were created by Snowball and Napoleon, many times. He was constantly "amending" the commandments on his own, very late at night. For example, he changed the commandment which originally read that "no animal shall drink alcohol," to "no animal shall drink alcohol, to excess." Squealer was another conniving character created by ... using rhetorical questions and repeating generalizations that we not true (for example, "most of us actually dislike milk and apples.") His actions, for example adding onto the seven commandme...

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... had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when Old Major first stirred them to rebellion. If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and ... the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected te lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. (Orwell 95) The situation continued to get worse and worse, until one day ...

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... and taken to their deaths prison or deported too far off places? Tanya Shabarshenkova says, "My grandfather, they came for him at night. My grandmother never found out what happened to him. She didn't like to talk about it." At night the NKVD went out in vans named "black ravens" knocked on people's doors and the people were taken to a building called ... ...

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... secret police or the Gestapo, Hitler eliminated the leaders of his S.A. and all the other leaders that were seen as a threat to his leadership. This was known as the "Night of the Long Knives" which led to Hitler declaring himself as Führer. Individual Rights and Freedoms, Self-Interest, and Rule of Law were greatly rejected because no one was ... ...

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... situation, the Germans secretly transported the exiled Vladimir Lenin in a sealed train from Switzerland to Russia in the hope he would inflame the turmoil. German expectations were realized on the night of November 6-7 when Lenin led the Bolsheviks in a successful attempt to grab the reigns of power in St. Petersburg. Anti-Bolshevik forces (the White Russians) immediately took up arms to ... ...

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