... This artistic attitude was a product of the Utopian atmosphere generated by the Revolution and the specific conditions of the Civil War period (1918-21). After 1917, industry and the machine came to be seen as the essential characteristics of the working class and hence of the new Communist order. In practical terms, industrial development was also regarded by the state ... authorities as the key to political and social progress. Hence, the machine was both a metaphor for the new culture under construction and the practical means to rebuild the economy as a prelude to establishing Commun...

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... cause of WWI, but indirectly WWII, and thus aiding to the collapse of the "Old Order". Overview of WWI - Two symbols One of the symbols of World War I was the machine gun. Being the most common weapon of the war, it was key to creating the stalemate type warfare that occurred. The other symbol of the World War I was the shovel ... weapons and transportation would make it a war of defense. Effective use of airplanes, submarines, trucks and railroads would aid defense more than offense. With weapons such as poisonous gas and machine guns in the hands of both sides, neither side could get ...

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... territories. The rapid rise of the national economy contributed monolithic totalitarian system, its ability to concentrate its limited resources on specific areas of the economy. Stalin, and he created the "machine" is less likely to be considered a human victims, justifying their ideological dogmas. The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However ... ...

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... throne. These talks from 1801 to 1804 underlined key discussions that needed to be made in order to start cooperating with upcoming legislation and reform. By creating this smooth governmental machine lead to maturity and progress, even while dealing with the Napoleonic wars. Alexander's Deputy Minister of Justice and State Secretary, Mikhail Speransky assumed a supreme role in the political affairs of ... ...

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... World War broke out and drained most of what was left of the already impoverished state. Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a super power, the U.S. being the only country more powerful than it. After the death of Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist ... ...

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... government insisted that if art would be used and propagated to the benefit of the Soviet people and its government it could be used as a tool to build a power Soviet machine. Tatlin and the right argued that "the artist must become a technician the artist must build harmony in life itself, transforming work into art, and art into work Art into life ... ...

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... Czarina whom Rasputin had miraculously brought out of a coma after a train accident. He gained the name of "lover of the Russian queen," and retained the title of "Russia's greatest love machine." Church officials had no say as to what went on in their own churches. Correspondence between the czar and his wife showed that Rasputin did have influence in appointing Ministers ... ...

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... World War broke out and drained most of what was left of the already impoverished state. Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a super power, the U.S. being the only country more powerful than it. After the death of Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist ... ...

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... party to his advantage, removing Trotsky and the leftists from history whilst glorifying himself as the saviour of the Soviet Union. Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic ... ...

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