On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. ... In semi-democratic parliamentary elections in Poland, the Communists were roundly defeated and soon forced to accept a non-Communist prime minister. ... The reunification of Germany as a democratic nation was not a direct threat to the Soviet Union, but the fall of the Communism in Eastern Europe was. ... The fall of the communist parties in Bulgaria and Albania soon followed. ... He immediately resigned as Communist party general secretary, suspended party activities, and plac...

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They agreed to get rid of all Nazi parties. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. ... These hopes were quickly dashed in the German Democratic Republic. ... In 1969, the Free Democratic Party won a razor thin victory in parliamentary elections, and Willy Brandt became chancellor. ... Its crafty first chancellor, Konrad Adenuer, knew how to exploit for the benefit of his country and his party. ...

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Lenin and the Russian revolution Introduction The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the minority of the Social Democratic Party. As all anti-tsarist groups the party was illegal. The party was based upon the beliefs of Karl Marx, a German writer and revolutionary, who believed a revolution could only be started within the workforce of the major cities. ... To gain support Lenin made a secret police force, which was in charge of erasing any opposition to the party. ...

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... McCarthy and many other republican politicians believed that the democratic party, along with President Harry S. Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ...

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When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions in 1903, Stalin joined the more militant Bolshevik party led by Lenin. ... Stalin gained a lot of control when he was elected secretary of the communist party in 1922. ...

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Then In 1912 Lenin and his supporters organized a party conference in Prague At this conference, Lenin formally broke from his Menshevik opponents and the rest of the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party) to form an independent Bolshevik party. ... He arrived back in Russia on April 3 in Petrograd during the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik Party Workers. ... When Lenin was building up the Bolsheviks lots of people started to look at them more seriously. he exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who arrived in Petrograd in May from America, agreed with Lenin's policy and joined the...

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The communist party was the only party allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. The party was run by Stalin and he demanded complete obedience from the party members. The Communist party was made to serve Stalin's needs and not those of the communist party. Stalin made his party seem like it was democratic and like it suited the peoples needs by compelling them to vote in elections. Since there was only one political party, the voters were forced to vote for Stalin. ...

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The next year, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Party after meeting one of its members. The Party was founded in 1898. ... Vladimir Lenin was one of the leaders of the party. ... During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ...

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He then met members from the Social Democratic Party and joined them. ... While he was in jail, the Social Democratic Party than split into two parts. One of the parties was Mensheviks, which were more traditional ideas. The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. ...

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The Soviet Union was a single party state and held a communist economic system that the U.S wanted to hold a 'containment' foreign policy towards. ... Truman handled the nation's containment policy with great success that kept the democratic and free market integrity of western Europe. Through Truman's use of economic aid to suffering european countries, establishing military links with pro-democratic nations, and his firmness when responding to threatening soviet acts, Truman handled the soviet threat to the best of any presidential ability. ... To meet this dilemma hea...

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The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the emergence of the common man and democratic rights in France. ... Lenin changed the course of Russia by ensuring that his party would resort to dictatorship rather than bow to the will of the masses. ... It was essentially a democratic document that proclaimed the sovereignty of the people. ... Utopian visions of a democratic state seemed almost tantalisingly achievable. ... Lenin, the father of communism, believed it the job of his party to exercise control of society...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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In 1917 all these things resulted in the overthrow of the czarist government and the establishment of the Bolshevik Party. The Bolshevik Party was a radical group of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. ...

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Although Nicholas (II) had full control of Russia, his libral parties had the task of solving the peasent problems that were constantly erupting. ... The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. Moreover, during the very first stages of the revolution, the workers themselves posed in practice not merely democratic problems but also purely socialist ones. The demand not to transgress the bounds of bou...

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He joined the Social Democratic party in 1901, and became a full-time revolutionary soon after that (The Unquiet 89). ... Stalin did many odd jobs for his party through his younger years. ... Stalin joined the Politburo, or the inner committee of the party, in 1919. He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). ... Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). ...

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He joined the Social Democratic party in 1901, and became a full-time revolutionary soon after that (The Unquiet 89). ... Stalin did many odd jobs for his party through his younger years. ... Stalin joined the Politburo, or the inner committee of the party, in 1919. He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). ... Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). ...

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In the early mornigh hours of August 13, 1961, the top secret top-secret operationwas carried out by the military and police, under the direction of the future head of the German Democratic Republic, Erich Honecker. ... The communist party has found a way to secure its future-by walling its people in. ...

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The land controlled by the Soviet Union became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ... As the years went by, the leaders of East Berlin's communist Party decided to allow some people to cross into West Berlin to visit relatives. ...

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Here as the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, (RSDLP), he already showed signs of being a powerful, convincing leader. Lenin's revolutionary ideas, tactics and policies allowed him to split the party on the issue of membership. ... "(1) Lenin's Bolshevik party attracted the support from professional revolutionaries from the provinces. ... Lenin was seen as the undisputed leader of his party. ... Leon Trotsky also joined that party. ...

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Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... Germany, divided at the end of the war, was split into Eastern/Communist Germany and Western/Democratic Germany. ... Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. ... Within days of becoming party leader Gorbachev announced plans to restructure the economy. ...

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Stalin was conditioned to be ruthless, from his abusive father to his work in the Bolshevik Party; he would follow a destructive path through out his life. ... His career in the Social Democratic party began as a propagandist among T"bilisi railroad workers. ... He also became known as an up and comer follower for the Bolshevik party, and helped organize a bank robbery in 1907 to help finance his party. ... Lenin the leader of the Bolshevik party, started to rally the people, and by October, they had seized power of the government. ... Stalin's work led to a promotion of commissar for...

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His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stalin on his 50th birthday. ...

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Serving as a Vice President, a core member of both House of Representative and Senate, many believed that the 1960 election will be a landslide victory for Nixon and his Republican Party. ... Kennedy managed easily outmaneuver the other candidates for the Democratic Party. ...

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