A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... Most importantly, the emergence of totalitarian governments usually occurs as a result of historical forces, such as chaos during the aftermath of an event such as a World War. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... It is obvious while ...

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Actually, almost every who has tried to have a communist government country (Cuba, North Korea, The Soviet Union and China), ends up with a totalitarian government. ... If your people revolt, your country's government is going to go downhill fast. ... An example is how the United States is invading Iraq and changing the government because we feel that it isn't a "high-quality" government. It is indisputable that if a country is trying to change your government and uses force your government will fail. ... In fact, all of the above stated facts are the causes in almost every faile...

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He creates a government ideology called animalism which represents communism. ... The Dogs These animals are the military force and secret police of this totalitarian government. ... He next talks about Animalism, a government in which Animals rule themselves without humans for the benefit of animals. ... The government then served the ruling class not the rest. This book shows the true nature of a totalitarian government. ...

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They have feelings that the government or the party will fabricate the result. ... Most of such people were born and grew up with totalitarian or authoritarian regimes (such as Soviet Union). ... Some people said that they just don't want to vote because they don't believe the government. They have feelings that it has been fabricated by the government but nobody wants to admit. Also they said that results depended on the government desire. ...

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Joseph Stalin was one of the most infamous leaders of all time. His cruel policies got the attention and fear of the entire world. Stalin was one of the first totalitarian rulers. He had the power to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, and he took advantage of it. He obviously did ...

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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'. ... The event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due to the numerous revolutionary groups; such force only ba...

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The people believed the change they sought could be accomplished by voting in the Labour Government. ... Labour was a Socialist form of government in that it hoped to aid all citizens, with ideas including free healthcare and more jobs, no matter what class. ... He believed that "everything would fall into place, with a government led economy;" it would strengthen so producing jobs and improving social conditions. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... As reaction to this, the Soviets inserted a stric...

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Trotsky is truly a good speaker and a smarter individual, but Stalin showed no mercy to his counterpart and outsmarted him solely on the basis of his understanding of government. ... This book is Orwell's most popular book, and rightfully so, as it shows how communism will never work because there is no such thing as equality, and there can never be a successful totalitarian style government. ...

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The inefficiency of only taxing the lower estates showed in the government's budget. ... By the 1795, the government had passed into the hands of the five-main directory. ... One such coup succeeded and Napoleon Bonaparte formed a Consulate government with significant ease. ... Local governments became highly centralised. ... Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. ...

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The Allied powers soon recognized the provisional government; it was considered the 'legal successor' to the Czarist government. ... Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. ... A huge armed demonstration was held against the Provisional Government in Petrograd, on July 17, 1917. ... However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. ... Thus a war was declared between totalitarian dictatorship and democratic socialism, between Marxism and ...

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Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. ... Backing his unwavering support of Syngman Rhee's government, and other free nations around the world, Truman said, "If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world -- and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation" (Truman Doctrine, 1947). ... Speaking about the US's goals of protecting free countries from losing their independence, Truman stated, "We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free inst...

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"1 Many would argue that the 1917 October revolution would have not succeeded had it not been for the weakness of the provisional government, or the Petrograd soviets assistance. ... Steve Phillips on the other hand suggests that "By October 1917 the Bolsheviks were in a position to succeed in seizing power from the provisional government although by this time the Provisional Government wielded little power of its own"3 Phillips looks towards a compromise that many historians support, however Philip's fails to acknowledge the fact that the provisional government lost much of its supp...

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Weather On October 2nd 1941 German troops marched on Moscow, with only 90,000 Russian soldiers defending the capital, the government was preparing to evacuate. ... In this chaotic time Stalin's totalitarian "rule by decree" was impractical and he allowed greater freedom and autonomy in the lower echelons. ...

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The aim of this essay is to evaluate the importance of the ideological differences in the outbreak of the Cold War. The Cold War begins with the end of the Second World War (WWII) in 1945, when the world was left crippled and needed to be reconstructed in some manner. For this, it depended on the tw...

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Communist governments sprouted all over Eastern Europe. During the last years of the Second World War, the Red Army was moving forward and leaving behind pro- communist governments. ... As previously mentioned the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe leaving in its wake pro-Moscow governments. ... The Communist parties have been raised to power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. ... Also speeches like those changed the policy of governments, the USA and the USSR both enlarged their defense budgets. ...

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It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. ... This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and ...

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It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. ... This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and ...

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It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. ... This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and ...

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His regime was utterly ruthless and therefore the most efficient of the totalitarian dictatorships. ... When the government came to realise the increasing amount of unrest that was growing among the peasants as a result of the government's failure to provide a liveable wage from collectivised farming, Stalin issued the Kolhoz Charter in February 1935. ... The school curriculum was dosed with ideological instruction and as one teacher identified, here was also a hidden curriculum been enforced by the government. ...

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Stalin: GENIUS OR MONSTER? As with any human being I don't think you can label Stalin as just one thing against another. He may have been a genius or a monster or at times both, but he was never one thing. To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ...

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So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordination to the Chinese government in his writings for the South China Morning Post. ...

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In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... 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...

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A certain role in the development of the situation in this area has played and the position occupied by formally independent (from the USSR), the governments of Eastern European countries. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood prevailed in government circles of America B. ... The rapid rise of the national economy contributed monolithic totalitarian system, its ability to concentrate its limited resources on specific areas of the economy. ...

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