Industrialization after the Civil War This paper discusses the effects the Industrial Revolution had on the economy, politics, and society. ... After the Civil war Industrialization drastically changed and affected everything going on in the U.S. including the way the government was ran, the people and the way people lived as a whole. ... For example, when dealing with the economy we can man=inly speak on increased productivity in which it was a change of shifted energy sources from everything being more manual to it now being able to be run almost on its own (mechanics). ... Groups of the In...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... War communism was the policy pursued by The Bolshevik party during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920, until Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy. During the civil war Lenin had geared the economy towards the war against the opposition forces, the various strands of the divided "Whites". ... Major agricultural regions were occupied by the white armies during the Civil War, intensifying the food problem further. ... More recent historians...

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The main threat to Lenin's new empire came in the form of the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. ... Service argues that Lenin during the Civil war was too quick to resort to the Cheka and Red army stating; "Lenin preferred to overdo the blows than to risk letting an opponent survive the assault"[5] this could be seen as especially significant when we re-examine Lenin's use of force during the Kronstadt mutiny, although some would argue that this was an overuse of force, during the Civil war Lenin could not afford ...

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This separation came about during the cold war period between the United States and USSR. ... The connection between Human Rights and Democracy lies in civil, political, economical, social and cultural rights. ... Democracy relies on both Civil and Political implications of the Human rights agenda. ... When the Economy has becomes this bad the political leaders can take advantage of this situation and start making false promises just to get the electoral votes and get into power. Once they are voted into power they forget about these said promises and they might even use these political...

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This separation came about during the cold war period between the United States and USSR. ... The connection between Human Rights and Democracy lies in civil, political, economical, social and cultural rights. ... Democracy relies on both Civil and Political implications of the Human rights agenda. ... When the Economy has becomes this bad the political leaders can take advantage of this situation and start making false promises just to get the electoral votes and get into power . Once they are voted into power they forget about these said promises and they might even use these political ...

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The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. ... If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructu...

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For Germany, the war was lost, their emperor had fled and the despondent citizens were rebellious. ... With these factors in consideration the revolution that had taken place in Germany during 1918-1919, we have to question the extent in which the German people gained a full revolution. ... The civil service remained unreformed after 1919 along with the judiciary and the office corps. ... Ebert needed the full support of the army; he could have changed the old elite and produce a complete socialist reform and he could have established the economy. ... The events that took place during what was...

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The list goes on, and with two world wars, the division of Europe, a world warped with ideological conflict during the cold war and political and economical pressures of the late 60's and 70's which had previously shattered complacency about stability and progress in the democratic world, now faith in democratic reason could be fully restored. ... Democracy is now thought to be linked with prosperity and advances in economy and lifestyle. Modern economies depend on communication, barriers to communication in democratic countries is much lower than in authoritarian states. ... The d...

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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... As a result, Poland held its first competitive elections since before World War II, and in 1989, Solidarity formed the first non-Communist government within the Soviet bloc since 1948. ... The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ... The Soviet econo...

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During this period there was a changing of relationships between China and the liberal-capitalist USA. ... To gain great power status, China sees it as essential to reunify its national territory, modernise and develop its economy and build a powerful military . ... It can be seen through the Chinese foreign policy, written in the times when Mao Zedong was the leader or a communist China that after the end of the civil war in China in 1949, with the victory of the communists over the nationalists, US-China relationships went through a very tense and hostile period. ... USA and China were hosti...

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Socialism requires a revolution with three main stages: firstly, the emergence of a workers' movement committed to socialist revolution, secondly the achievement of political power and the expropriation of the capitalists and thirdly a period during which workers learn how to be owners and rulers and cast off the psychological and ideological dross of the past. ... Commodity production is far less developed in agriculture, and modern statisticians and economists are, as a rule, not very skillful in picking out the special branches in agriculture, which indicate that agriculture is being ...

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During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. ... During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new lea...

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Hungary planned to leave the Warsaw Pact and declare themselves neutral in the Cold War conflict between East and West. ... Warsaw Pact forces were utilised at times, such as during the 1968 Prague Spring, when they invaded Czechoslovakia to put down the democratic reforms that were being implemented by the government there. ... A full scale "east versus west" war never actually broke out, hence the metaphor of a "cold" war, rather than a "hot" shooting war. ... Because of that, the population of the major powers were rarely directly impacted by this war. ... Because there were large ethn...

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The debates on the amendment of the Constitution which have been going on for slightly over one year now seem to turn in favor of having these two elections at separate dates, stance backed by both civil society and parties across the Romanian political stage. ... The various disagreements between Romania and the EU, brought about last year by the signing of the treaty with the USA on the non-extradition of the US citizens to the Criminal Court of Justice on the Haag, without previous consultation of the EU and by further support of the USA in matters regarding the war in Iraq, were skillfully...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... While possessing the aura of a great leader during the 1970's, Mao's character has, to some extent, been reinterpreted that he is now depicted as a decadent mass murderer. ... This upheaval lead to thousands or millions of deaths , the halt of education, the removal of the cadres in power, huge damage to the economy, a greater role of the military in politics and placed Mao in complete contr...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...

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