The possessed seem to have sprung from the "plague- of which Raskolnikov, a confessed but not truly repented murder, dreams at the very conclusion of Crime and Punishment when he is imprisoned in Siberia. In a delirium he dreams that the world is condemned to a new plague from Asia, and that everyone is to be destroyed except a very few. ... Stavrogin's act of suicide is the act of magnanimity he had not believed within his grasp "he becomes a hero, a fairy-tale prince, not through the desultory acts of his largely wasted life but through the atonement of his death. ...

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It is also involved in the human preoccupation with seeking altered states of consciousness as part of ritual, individual day dreaming, prayer, meditation or drug use. ... Making music and sharing its meanings within a culture or particular environment leads to cohesion and the strengthening of social unity. ...

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Basic desires existed for those on both sides of the barbed wire, but neither those within nor outside the camps admitted that they all had an equal right to freedom. ... During Ivan's dream of his mother, Grossman writes about how it was the goal of the State to ignite the fury of the masses and destroy the parasitic class of bread burners and child murderers that were the kulaks. ... By the end of the 1920s, the way had been cleared for Soviet construction and shortly after the total collectivization of agriculture in 1930 the faith in a revolutionary strength started to disappear withi...

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In order to solve issues such as the latter, corporations had to enlist the services of transitional managers, those who have the capability to be leaders within the limitations of the culture the work in. ... (Russian Article p270) The managers never dreamed that anyone would see smiling at a guest an act of hypocrisy. ... In order to solve these issues, it was clear that local nationals must be placed as managers, and these must be promoted from within the ranks of the organization. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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It uses captivating mindsets such as "The American Dream" that often appeals to many immigrants. ... As he continued his expansion, he did not attempt to exert soft power upon these nations, thus he never gained the interest of the people within them. ... Additionally, they exaggerate and twist the stories of the news in order to provide soft power both within Russia and to abroad countries. ...

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In his novel Cement, Gladkov presents the struggle of finding equality, coping with the brutal history that shaped the minds of Soviet citizens, and rebuilding a social and familial structure that fits within the new framework of communism. ...

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Christiana Lodder confirms in Art of the Soviets this revolutionary step in including art as a major collation within the government when she explains "Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda [is] immensely important because for the first time art was directly harnessed to the service of the state and its ideology" (16). ...

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Several crises almost led to general European war in the decade before 1914. Two of these, in 1904-5, and 1911, involved the North African state of Morocco. France had been working to annex Morocco, which lay next to its territory of Algeria; Germany with no vital interests in Morocco, threatened wa...

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