The French Revolution was a time of great change. ... It was the Bourgeoisie that played the greatest part in leading Old France into the French Revolution. ... The bourgeois had the greatest impact on bring forth the French Revolution. ... Lastly there were the philosophes, the creator of the ideas implemented in the French Revolution. ... Thus the French Revolution could not have taken place without contribution from the peasants, bourgeoisies and the philosophe. ...

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Revolutions are and will always be a turning point in history, whether it was the French Revolution, a political overthrow, or the Industrial Revolution, a new way of living. ... Factories were a main effect of the Industrial Revolution and were extremely important to the Revolution. ... Many people such as French social theorist in a public lecture, called out the government exclaiming, " [that] 'everything balances out in the end' But until this balancing process has run its course, what do we do with the thousands who are starving" (Saint-Amand Bazard). ... Socialism is ...

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What the French have come to call the Events of May 68 is actually more accurately referred to by the English as the revolution. ... It is especially noted that while the French see May1968 as an event, in the English speaking worlds, the people rather call it a revolution. ... As the tradition of socialist idea since French revolution in 1789, the wave of students protest of the 60s Left was partly originated from France. ... However In France, the mass of majority might see May 68 as a near-revolution , but not a revolution due to the whole upheaval went far beneath the idea of total revo...

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Many historians such as David Kaiser (1998) proposed that Ho turned to communism subsequent to America's refusal to help him end French domination in Vietnam. ... Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. ... This is the basis premise of a nationalist revolution. ... It evidently shadows a nationalist's case on principles based on Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers of the United States and the French Revolution of 1791. ... It is clear also that the Natio...

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Jaures persuaded many people against capitalism, an idea which he may have got from Marx years earlier, just as liberals may have got their lead from the French Revolution . However not only liberals got their ideas from the French Revolution, as Woolf states . The Socialist [second] International was formed in 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution . This is another example of Woolf's dead mind'- feeding off the French Revolution which occurred 100 years earlier, even though the ideas might have been passé . ... While the French Revolution brought e...

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Karl's parents were steeped in free French ideas of politics , religion, life and art. ... The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. ... The final section compares Communist tactics to those of other opposition forces in Europe, ends in a call for unity: "Workers of All Countries, Unite!" ... After the Manifesto appeared, revolutions occurred in France and Germany, and the Belgian government, fearful of a revolution there, banished Marx. ... Later in the same year he was again banished from France. ...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966-1976. ... The main phenomenon dealt with in the essay is the major shift in historical writings against the Cultural Revolution. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, repr...

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So, Marx went to Paris to study "French Communism." ... In Paris, Marx became acquainted with the Communistic views of French workmen. ... Once again, the Prussian government interfered with Marx and he was expelled from France. ... Marx's "political isolation" ended when he joined the International Working Men's Association. ... In 1879, Marx dictated the preamble of the program for the French Socialist Workers' Federation and shaped much of its content. ...

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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). ... After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millionaires who profit from a technological wave, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, at the expense of laborers, known as proletariats. ... On its agenda, the communists hope to abolish countries and nationalities so that the proletariat...

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Francois Quesnay, a French economist leader of the physiocrats, believed that only the agricultural classes are capable of producing surplus out of which the state could find the capital to support an expansion of the flow of money or could levy taxes to meet its needs. ... Another reason for the Industrial Revolution is the significant increase in population. ... While enclosure in the end contributed to an increased agricultural surplus, it brought disaster to the countryside. ... There were some other consequences of the industrial revolution; free competition. ... Communism advocates re...

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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. ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... French historian Alexis de Tocqueville suppor...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. ... In the end, he did little for the French military effort. ... To this end, Dien Bien Phu was occupied and established as a major fortress in 1953. ... The loss of Bien Dien Phu had broken French will to continue and on 20 July 1...

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It also demises of feudalism, which was effected by the French Revolution. ... It is necessary to transform society to end the violence perpetrated against the working class, the poor and oppressed of the worried, and to introduce a socialist society, once and for all. ...

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Since the revolution, trade with the outside world had been severely reduced and the U.S.S.R had to rely almost entirely on its own resources to industrialise. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... In ad...

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Efforts to leave the Warsaw Pact by member countries were crushed, for instance in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. ... Instead, the conflict continued from the end of World War II until the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. ... Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. ... In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro, came to a new agreement regarding continued cooperation, which, among other change...

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