Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. This quote shows the way in which terror alone can preserve autocracy. ... Historian Stephen Tongev quotes Lenin instituted a very brutal totalitarian regime. ... This then supports the idea that the more intense the terror the easier it was to uphold power. ... The key words in that quote a...

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" (3) These quotes further the notion that Lenin's personality, conviction and status in society were main reasons why so many were drawn to him. ... This once again supports the theory that Lenin was the driver of the revolution and without him the revolution may have occurred but not gained the support or power needed. ... This quote again conveys that Lenin was a man of his word. ... The April theses as it was known demanded that there should be no cooperation with the provisional government, the war should be ended immediately, the land should be given to the peasants and the Sovi...

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After Lenin's death in January 1924, the main struggle for power began amongst the seven man Politburo. ... He was made party secretary in Leningrad, thus allowing him to build a strong power base. ... There were many chances he had to over-power Stalin, for example by attending Lenin's funeral and organising it. ... Few people realised how paramount this would become later on in the power struggle. ... Because of his influence in this task many owed their jobs to him, therefore increasing his power base. ...

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Personal Study "get rid of man" is a quote from "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell. ... This saying is used a lot by the Animals but it is mainly used when people are talking to Napoleon this shows his power and authority over the other animals who are all meant to be equal. ... This is shown by his unmatchable power. ...

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Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. ... Correspondingly, "soft power" was presented as an opposing tactic to "hard power.... Others have cleverly been able to combine hard and soft power and call it "smart power.... In this first example, it can be proven that a soft power can exist without a hard power. ... In the second example, it can be proven that a hard power can exist without a soft power. ...

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This quote was described by a NKVD officer, a member of Stalin's elite security force and who later defected from Russia. ... He imagined that everyone, from the lowest farmer to his life long friends were after his power. ... The purge trials had successfully consolidated Stalin's power by removing all his political enemies. ... If this were to become known it would undermine his power. ... This was a quote by a guard at one of the gulags (Stalin 122). ...

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In the April Theses of 1917 he drafted a strategy for the party to seize power. In October he insisted that power should be seized. ... Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, consolidating his newly gained power. ... The Kronstadt sailors were hardened veterans of the Revolution and supported the Bolsheviks seizure of power. ... A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country....

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The Sassanids initially seized Armenia, but the Roman Empire wrested control of Armenia later that century and then restored the Arsacids to power, crowning Tiridat I I I as Armenian king. ... In 1987, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted a Turkish parliamentarian as saying that there were 2 to 3 million Armenians living in central and eastern Turkey prior to 1915. ...

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Lenin made himself the dictator and the Communist parties held the total power. ... Lenin, for example, obtained his power through the Civil Wars between Reds and the Whites. ... He came to power, 1917, with coercive tactics. ... After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin came to power. ... Marx's famous quote was "Religion is the opium of the masses-; religion was not a need for a communism state, it would only blocked the process of communism. ...

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One of Solzhenitsyn's most significant quotes against communism was, "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again....

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If it wasn't for the intervention of Britain and Austria-Hungary, Russian mass man-powered forces could have seized them independence. ... Massive industrialisation soon made Russia the biggest power. ... Mosse quote 'Alexander proved himself not only a disappointing "liberal"' (Laver ,31). ...

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In the decade after the Communists came to power, about 90 ,percent of Hungary's foreign trade was with fellow members of COMECON. ... Hungary's major imports from the Soviet Union are oil and oil products, natural gas, coal, coke, electrical power, and tractors and combines. ...

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By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... "Kissinger believed that international stability was the best way to preserve American power and one way to assure that was to allow China to enter into a balance of power" (Penna, par. 1). ... Balancing military power along with a willingness to use that power, challenging communist aggression wherever it raised its head had been the dominate theme since the Truman Administrati...

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Another opinion is that a truly effective world government would necessitate worldwide force and unprecedented power on a global scale. ... What is most disturbing is that they have nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them."" ... This shows that Canada, being only a "middle-power- in the world, spends more than the United Nations, which represents all but four of the world's countries. ...

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Our assignment was to write a paper using Robert F. Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were asked to examine the Cuban Missile Crisis as: a) an example of the Cold War mentality of the early 1960's or b) a demonstration of the Kennedy administration's decision-making process. While pondering which approach to take I decided that both choices were inextricably linked. JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ...

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This quote best addresses the problem of international cooperation, for if the problem of pollution has no political boundary, the solution against pollution should be independent of nationality. ... In the particular case of environmentalism, the traditional idea of property ownership must be abandoned, for environmental problems are tans boundary, a single country's environmental disregard may affect all other nations, regardless of power, wealth, or any other traditional hierarchal standard. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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