Again, it was best said in the Communist Manifesto, while interchanging the word communist for environmentalist: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."" ... Cuba forms a perfect example for the trade embargo levied on it by the US while in such proximity to it, is the most isolated any communist country has been. ... Extensive development took place, with much aid from other communist countries, and mass imports of unavailable goods began. ... This shou...

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All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more. ... After 1954 Ho Chi Minh and his Communist followers began preparing for a battle with South Vietnam to unify the country under Communist rule. ... South Vietnam became uneasy, and assistance was needed to fight against the communist North. ... From 1954 to 1960 the U.S. sent a few number of troops into Vietnam to help resist the Communist, but little was made of it. ... America did not want Rus...

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How successful have the post-communist states been in establishing a stable democracy? Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... The conclusion will state the different success rates of the post-communist countries, and how each hopes to improve. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... The first thing for Poland to do was the immediate removal of communist bar on competitive multiparty elections. ...

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Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. ... On October 2, 1950 the South Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, while the Chinese communists threatened to enter the war if the UN crossed the 38th parallel. ... * * * The United States had stood by the Republic of Korea in its struggle "against Communist aggression, which the United States believed trampled upon human dignity and which replaced national sovereignty with a humiliating satellite status." ... " * * * After a long winter recess, the Communists were willing...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. ... Stalin's socialism in one country' had mixed support with some communists siding with it and other preferring the idea of spreading the revolution as promoted by Trotsky. ... Under the N.E.P industrial production was very disappointing to many communists. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ...

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A centralised party was, traditionally, against the Communist theory, as the idea of it being dominated by civil servants and paperwork did not appeal to the revolutionaries. ... Whilst in power Lenin had controlled the Communist Party with his forceful personality and original ideas, leaving no room for any other leader. ...

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They were not all communist, although communists actively involved themselves in most of the "wars of liberation", forming blocs within other movements where they did not have the strength to stand alone. ... In Saigon, the Provisional Executive Committee of South Vietnam, dominated by communists, recognised Ho's authority. ... By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. ... In the South, "Cochin China", the communist-led forces were too weak, lacking in arms and effe...

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Carl Marx created The Communist Manifesto which which called for a huge revolt. It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Many people believed that the communist manifesto provided the blue print for communism and changed the future of economics and political development. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ...

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The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... It showed that the communist Russia, the worlds only other proper superpower, were rivals to the US. ... This was a very threatening speech directly aimed at Russia and any communist expansion across Europe. ...

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The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. The United States originally tried to help the French by giving them financial aid to fight off the communist attackers. ... This is who America decided was a threat that they wanted to stop before all of Indochina became communist. ... With the help of the United States, there would hope in stopping the communist North Vietnamese from taking over. ... But Diem had sound credentials as a nationalist and impeccable ones as an anti-Communist...

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McCarthy accused high government officials and high standing military officers of being communist. ... The government put in place legislation, not only against the Wobblies, but also against Socialists and Communists, due to the fact that the government did not distinguish one of its enemies from another. ... He did not only reserve his weapon for the Wobblies; the American Communists and many other radical groups were not to be left out. When the Palmer Raids began, which will be discussed in more detail later, there were two main targets: the Communist Party, and the Communist Labor Party. ...

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Many people since then feared a communist takeover. ... Every communist official must be shot. All communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up and that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!" ... The Nazis then went on to burn the Reichstag on 28th February, blaming the communists for it. ...

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Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... In this period Mao encouraged students to rebel against the system that he had fought to establish, under the pretence of destroying any remaining reactionary elements in the party as well as the four "olds" -aspects of traditional Chinese culture blocking communist progression, and threatening bourgeois reactionary revisionism. ...

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In prison he wrote the Mein Kamph (My Struggle) It talked about his hatred against Jews and Communists. ... During the summer of 1932 Nazi`s and communists fought it out and died on the streets of every major city in Germany. ... As soon as Hitler learned a of the fire, he blamed the communist. Van der Lubbe did have the communist sympathies, but he was not a member of the Communist Party There was no evidence that party members, let alone communist deputies in the Reichstag were part of a conspiracy to burn the parliament building. ... Then within a few days, three thousand communists ...

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In prison he wrote the Mein Kamph (My Struggle) It talked about his hatred against Jews and Communists. ... During the summer of 1932 Nazi`s and communists fought it out and died on the streets of every major city in Germany. ... As soon as Hitler learned a of the fire, he blamed the communist. Van der Lubbe did have the communist sympathies, but he was not a member of the Communist Party There was no evidence that party members, let alone communist deputies in the Reichstag were part of a conspiracy to burn the parliament building. ... Then within a few days, three thousand communists ...

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Chile was a unique form of government in the early 1970s, with the first Western communist president to be selected via a popular democratic election. ... Korry, among other leaders, feared the new communist government (Weiner 24). ... The CIA was also given instructions to take any necessary means to save Chile from the communist administration (U.S. ... At the same time, Chile opened relations with many communist countries considered to be a threat to the United States and democracy. ... However, Allende eventually broke ties with the Soviet Union because Chile received far less aid than Cub...

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January 5th 1919 saw an unprepared and badly staged Spartacist putsch, where the communist's led by 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg, captured the headquarters of the governments newspapers and the telegraph bureau. ... Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. Not only did the failed and fruitless rising influence people further from the communists, due to such unreliable politics, but the loss of both leaders suppressed the communist movement such that they didn't recover. Both fac...

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The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. ... Accordingly, the Communist country should not have military action taken against it only due to mistrust by other nations. ... China made a similar claim to territo...

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West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Thus in 1991, the -2- Communist Soviet Union was done. ... North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. ... Since the parallel became a boundary, the country was divided with the Communist North and the non-communist South. ... For the U.S., the Korean War increased fear of Communist aggression and prompted a hunt for spies on whom to blame Communist gain. ...

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In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. ... At first, they took away the rights of minority groups, such as the Communist and the Jews, then they took away the rights of trade unionist, and other groups until eventually the German citizens had no rights left in which to stop the government from further impinging on their freedom. ... Nazi Political Opposition Among the first groups to be targeted by the Nazi's, were oppositional political parties, such as the Communist. Upon taking office in early 1933...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of its homeland. Korea's indigenous religion, like that of most early cultures, was a form of...

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Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... Furthermore, the Romanian Government has skillfully played its cards close to its chest in as far as comments on last year's strained political circumstances in the Re-public of Moldavia are concerned, whose communist government had repeatedly ac-cused Romania of interfering in its internal affairs. ... Thus, in October 2002, the Hungarian president Ferenc Madl ...

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