During the times of the industrial revolution, the idea of communism was very popular. There have been countries that have tried this form of government. The results of these countries" experiences with communism was unsuccessful. An example of a country that tried communism was Russia. When the cou...
Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism are the three main theoretical positions that have shaped and dominated our understanding of the international world. Out of the three theories, Marxism has had the least influential role. Nevertheless, it should not be disregarded because it has a continuing validit...
After reading this week's passages, it became very clear to me that there truly wasn't a winner in the Vietnam War. The Americans see it as a blemish upon their history because they couldn't decisively get the victory that they wanted, but the Vietnamese people have not gotten the life that they th...
Although the theories in existentialism were present before the 1990's, existentialism was at its peak during the 20th century. Three major events of the 20th century explain the reason for existentialism's popularity. Those three events were World War I, World War II and the Cold War. During the first World War, methods of warfare used were more devastating than any other previous war in European history. With the use of mustard gas, trenches, and the invention of the machine gun, more soldiers than ever were wounded and killed. ...
The Russian revolution is the fundamental political and social upheaval that erupted in the Russian empire in 1917. The roots of the Russian Revolution are to be sought in the arbitrary, autocratic, and repressive czarist political and social system that evolved in the 16th - 18th century. It bega...
He wanted nothing but technology, nothing but cadre; no politics, no masses Stalin speaks only of the production relations, not of the superstructure, nor of the relationship between superstructure and economic base Stalin mentions economics only, not politics."1 The chairman of the People's Republic believed that once communism had grown deep roots in his country's society, economic development would inevitably follow. ...
"If Vladimir Ilich Lenin was the father of the soviet state, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was its gravedigger- (McCauley 344). Between 1964 and 1985 many economic reforms were attempted in the Soviet Union. These attempts were efforts to improve a system that was failing to produce adequate economi...
The Age of McCarthyism, by Ellen Schrecker, discusses the Cold War policies to find American Communists and examines the rather complex nature of the fear and subsequent action towards Communism and espionage as it becomes "McCarthyism". Ellen Schrecker discusses the political history in the early ...
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. The treaty was drafted by Kkrushchev in 1955 and signed in Warsaw on May 14,1955. The members of the Warsaw Pact were to defend each other if one was attacked. ...
Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. 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. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...
