Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be kept safe for democracy." ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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Another important thing to mention is the fact that as a Jew, she was born into a religious environment that was very concerned about social equality, but on the other hand lived in the Russian society, which viewed Jews as a second-class people. This situation, being caught between two cultures - the Jewish and the Russian, the ghetto and the outside - helped her realize very early that rules and laws are often simply accepted, even though they may be contrary and senseless. ... Although many Jews condemned the assassins who had been associated with the Russian socialist movement, Emma soon...

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This would have meant that he appealed to the surfs throughout Russia. ... He was a good orator, organised, and worked for the benefit of Russia. ... This meant that he had influence other the minorities, of which there were many throughout Russia. ... He had a good relationship with the Russian people, which was boosted by him leading them out of the July days. ... Despite this, after the revolution in 1917, the Party quickly discovered that coping with the complexities of government obliged it to become more centralised. ...

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." - Dmitri Shostakovich On November 7, 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and created a new form of government they called the Communist Party. In the first years of the revolution, anything and everything seemed possible; not just in politics, but in the arts as well. ... Over night, he went from being Russia's golden boy composer, to the border lines of being a non-person. ... Shostakovich was only 11 years old when the revolution took place. ...

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Take for example that while the original allied forces contained Tsarist Russia, Britain & France , the allies would later be split with the loss of Tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and the inclusion of the USA on the front. ... In comparison to the Communists in Russia, the Blackshirts resembled the Soviets used as the arm behind the meaning. ...

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At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." ... Palmer used the laws set down in 1917 to deport members of the IWW. ... There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ...

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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Germany had invaded Russia twice this century and should not be allowed to recover. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolsh...

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In a mere forty years, we have had more technological advances than the Industrial Revolution. ... As a result of this technological revolution, the world has become smaller. ... Twelve years later Russia launched the first successful satellite, Sputnik 1. ... America later stepped up, and became a worthy adversary to Russia. ... In 1917, the United States government realized to its dismay that the United States, home of the Wright Brothers, couldn't build a plane to compete with he one that England and France and Germany were flying in the Great War. ...

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History of Labor in America The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. ... To skilled craft workers, the Industrial Revolution meant degradation rather than progress. ...

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The question of can music be political has been greatly debated over the past century, however, the works that have been debated the most are those from nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for there links with the social "cleansing" at the time in both societies. ... Lenin wrote these lines in February 1921 following the end of the Russian revolution. ... This obtained a satisfactory effect for that particular audience, but was never completely successful as the music was composed against a set of conditions, and few works provoked any interest beyond the boundaries of Russia, unlike before the ...

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This structure was somewhat outdated in the modern world which was experiencing a social revolution. ... The threat of nuclear was came from the rise of Communism in the 1917 October Russian Revolution when Lenin led the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. ... " This change came about due to the dropping of congregation numbers as the post-war period of social revolution meant that people did not want to be told who they could and couldn't marry based purely on their religious viewpoint. ...

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This trait that allowed him to use circumstances to help attain his goals was seen in 1920 with Italy, and would continue after he had formulated his program with such decisions to intervene in Spain and sign non-aggression pacts with hereditary enemies in Poland and Russia.(9) The Italian alliance by itself did not amount to very much, but it at least provided a basis for an outline of foreign policy. ... On July 27, 1920, in line with his racial dogma Hitler stated: "An alliance between Russia and Germany can only come into existence if the Jews are removed from power." ... Tho...

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"(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... This 'New Thinking' offered an entirely new attitude to Leninism-Marxism and all the policies upon which the Soviet Union had existed since the Revolution of 1917. ...

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In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." ... The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ...

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1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 8 Streets that follow like a tedious argument 9 Of insidious intent 10 To lead you to an overwhelming question ... 11 Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" 12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 ...

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In 1903, when negotiations with Colombia for a Canal Zone lease broke down, Roosevelt quietly supported a revolution in that country. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. ...

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In 1903, when negotiations with Colombia for a Canal Zone lease broke down, Roosevelt quietly supported a revolution in that country. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. ...

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Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? ...

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