Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, according to Jonathan Spence, Chinese history specialist and former Professor of History at Yale University, Mao would read "whatever he could find on Sun Yatsen." ... Professor Timothy Cheek, PhD qualified from Harvard University in History and East Asia studies, now director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, reflects on other influences of Mao's generation, stating that this generation was known as the "May Fourth Generation". ....

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After completing high school, Angela Davis attended Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1961-1965, where she would eventually graduate with honors. ... In 1965, Davis flew to Frankfurt, Germany to begin her doctoral studies in philosophy at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University. ... When she returned to the United States, she enrolled in the University of California at San Diego, where she would obtain a master's degree in philosophy in 1969. ... While in Los Angeles, Davis was hired to teach philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1969. ... Davis event...

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Karl Marx was educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Jena in Germany. ... Graphs This graph shows a study conducted by James Gwartney, economics professor at Florida State University, and two other researchers. ...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... However, he left Bonn after a year and enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy. ... By 1841, Marx's studies were lacking and, at the suggestion of a friend, he submitted a doctoral dissertation to the university at Jena, known for having lax acceptance requirements. ...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... However, he left Bonn after a year and enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy. ... By 1841, Marx's studies were lacking and, at the suggestion of a friend, he submitted a doctoral dissertation to the university at Jena, known for having lax acceptance requirements. ...

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(Johnson speech at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965) Society felt it needed, and supported in to about 1968, when number of casualties increase and many people asked why America need to fight this war thousand miles from home. ... Johnson Address at Johns Hopkins University: "Peace Without Conquest", April 7, 1965 10. ...

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Howard Zinn is a remarkable man. His diligence and ambition towards social change is very admirable. His book, You Can't Be Neutral on an Moving Train, is an autobiography about his experiences in several social movements and his intricate part in fighting for his beliefs. He chronicles his experien...

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This is supported by the biography of both authors: the first author, Eva-Maria Elsner, was an university lecturer for political economics at Rostock and lived in the former GDR, so she has an intimate knowledge of political events of the time. ... The author of this report is a scientific assistant at the university Duisburg and therefore has access to lots of source material. ...

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This was introduced in 1951 and its plan was to educate people of the poorer countries by bringing them into universities around Australia. ... The reason it changed Australian attitudes was because the people who did university with these students saw that they were people too and many became good friends with them. ...

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Marxist philosophy has been one of the most controversial subject of the last century. It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. In this paper I am going to cover Marx's historical realism, how it was developed and its relevance. ...

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He was a professor of economics at Stanford University. ... Meisner is currently the Harvey Goldberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. ...

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Chinese government has always tried to keep a tight restriction on traditional and currently updated media. This is to ensure that there is no protest to any of its political authority. Media is controlled through monitor systems, publication website cancellations, and even imprisonment for journali...

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Kennedy, American University Speech, June 10, 1963 The Cold War was a time in American History during the twentieth century where the Communist nations were fighting against the non-Communist nations. ...

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Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he i...

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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 verge of witnessing a great class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. In the middle nineteenth ce...

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Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. Mao was born in a farming comm...

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Book Critique on Everyday Stalinism In Shelia Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism, life in Soviet Russia during the 1930s is described in a variety of ways. After the revolution of 1917 and the change in the regime, life for ordinary Russians took a very different course. Agriculture was no longe...

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Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. This comparison will be shown by using the symbolism that is in the book with similarities found in the Russi...

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Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. The narrator...

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In the early sixties the public opinion was favourable towards USA's involvement in the war. From 64-65 a poll showed that 80 percent of the population agreed with Johnson and were for the war. America at this time saw it's-self as the "good guys" in the war, the ones who were there to defend the Vi...

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Many scholarly pieces have been written on Karl Marx, the author of the communist manifesto. Many of these pieces critically analyze and focus solely on the beliefs and social structures that Marx assembles in his writings. Although errors and contradictory theories can be found in his writings, ...

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During the 1950's McCarthyism consumed the daily lives of Americans. The term McCarthyism is a term used to describe senator Joe McCarthy's methods on the "war" against communism. This search for communists resulted in accusations that had no premises, and therefore were sometimes referred to as wit...

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Regarding the fact that in China, the current official ideology of communism is quickly losing its credit in the public, one may expect possible political and ideolocial reforms in the country. However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen cont...

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December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch Society. "The ultimate reason that brought each man here,"" Welch said, "was a sense of patriotic duty, and deep concern for the future of his family and his country- (4). He felt America was at great risk to succumbing to outside forces. ...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. Colver Lectures at Brown University. They are the result of a combination of "two separately undertaken efforts of histori...

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