Totalitarian Governments use the people in a total movement to achieve a goal. ... Russia was falling way behind the rest of the world, and with the death of Lenin they were looking for a new leader. The single party system made it easy for a totalitarian style leader to take hold of the reigns of power. ... The socialist movement was in full effect, and factory workers and peasant were taking over factories. ... Their dictators all came into power legally and used the support of the lower classes as a basis for takeover and movement towards a common goal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Stalin gained control of the party. ... Stalin was one of the most ruthless world leaders. ... They wondered how this movement, which had promised to put all people on equal footing, could have become twisted into the dismal state it was in by the late 1930s. ... Orwell's message is that any society which has leaders with absolute power such as Stalin, is doomed to failure due to such corrupt and selfish leaders manipulating power for their own personal benefit....

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In 1951, Mao launched a campaign called the Three Antis Movement. The goal of this movement was "to oppose corruption, waste and bureacratism" (Fitzgerald 80). ... The movement attacked capitalists, merchants, financiers and members of the CCP. ... At about the same time as the Wufan Movement, Mao initiated the Agrarian Reform in 1953. The gentry class suffered the most when this movement was instigated. ...

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While there he began developing a Marxist underground movement. ... On the night before its publication he and other leaders were arrested. ... Traits of a Leader Lenin showed many characteristics of a good leader, making him ultimately a better leader than his successors, where downplayed by Americans due to propaganda from the government teacher socialism bad, capitalism good, which isn't the case, but not what is being explained. ... Adding to that he was a very charismatic speaker, a true trait of a leader. ...

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Their leader Napoleon raves on about making the farm a fair and comfortable place, yet he's gradually turned the farm into a dystopian society. ... Later on in the novel leader napoleon does the one act to differentiate him from the animals and the humans, he walks on his hind legs. ... Eco-socialism talks about the anti-globalization movement and peacefully taking down capitalism. ...

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Hegel, and joined a rebel group called the Young Hegelians, which contributed ideas towards the movement against organized religion and the Prussian Autocracy. ... In Paris he met a man who shared his same views and they began collaboration to clarify systematically the theoretical principles of communism and to organize an international working-class movement dedicated to those principles. ... The leaders of the Bolsheviks, Lenin and Trotsky, began to build a Russia, one built on the ideas of Marx, where everyone was equal, where all property was owned by 'the people' rather than ...

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Social mobility is defined as movement among and between classes. ... Standard of living- good economic times leads to low votes and bad economic times lead to more votes because they try to get the leader out of office. ...

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We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...

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