One was in 1135 during the reign of King Stephen, the other was 415 years later with the death of Henry VIII. ... He was very arrogant, and treated people under him with much disrespect. ... I promise to neither sell nor put at farm nor, on the death of an archbishop, or abbot, take anything from a church's demesne or from its vassals during the interval before a successor is installed If any of my barons, or earls or other tenants shall die, his heir shall not redeem his land as he in my brother's time, but shall henceforth redeem it by a just and lawful relie...

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Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the First World War and the civil war. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the more important officials to object to it. ... To...

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The forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls them controls the society. ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... Having failed, the King traveled north to an important port which was also a military stronghold, as well. ... People began to rally behind the King. ... A significant amount of people rallied behind the King a...

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Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest years - learned to talk, he began pleading with people he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. ... When the intense Pre-Civil War campaign between Lincoln and Douglas began, he peddled photographs of his hero Abraham Lincoln. ... At age 14, after Tom had learned the basics of the fascinating new art of telegraphy, he obtained a job as a replacement for one of the thousands of "brass pounders" (telegraph operators) who had gone off to serve in the Civil War. ... When the War ended Tom decided, to his mother&#x...

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Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Trotsky, Lenin's brilliant accomplice and civil war hero, seemed the natural replacement. ... More importantly, he was solely responsible for appointing and firing new members. ... This power was further enhanced during the "Lenin Enrolment" (1924- 26) when the party bureaucracy gained 300,000 new members, all appointed by the Secretariat under Stalin's control. ... As Stalin controlled the party machinery, he would always win the propaganda war that followed. By disregarding Marx and Lenin, Stalin was able to disgrace Trotsky in the eyes of the Russian people, and would later have h...

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The Theory of Money and the Theory of Value The most important point to emerge from Marx's theory of money is the idea that money is a form of value. ... Value is a central social reality for people; they constantly think and talk about it directly or indirectly; they want some way to transfer it directly among themselves, separate from particular commodities. ... Insofar as commodity relations are well developed, so that exchange of products is common and people are forced willy nilly to consider the value of products separately from their use values, the money form of value will also b...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate