The machines are worn out. ... His Fifth Symphony is one of the most debated examples of whether or not music can be political. ... I personally enjoyed listening to Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony although from the style of the music, it was clear that there were some political messages behind the music. ... As we can see here, it is very common for the audience not to be able to separate the composer from his works, therefore seeing the composers own views in the music, seeing the music as a political piece even though that cannot be told from the music itself and even if the original int...

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Free enterprise and individualist democracy is a good political system. ... A military dictatorship is purely a bureaucratic institution, reinforced by the military machine and based upon the disorientation of the people and their submission to it. ... The plan or strategy of fascist regime can be outlined as follows: triumph of a leader (one or few people raise up and concentrate power), then it looms, and progresses, spreads over the masses and overwhelms control; it directs, supervises and eliminates any objections in military machine and removes potential rebelling issues from crowds. ...

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This essay will explore the international military, political and internal social factors that permitted the instability of Spain and the chaos of the Spanish civil war. ... At the meeting Mussolini promised the group 10,000 rifles, 10,000 hand grenades, 200 machine-guns and a million pesetas in cash in event of a military uprising. ... Over the next three months Mussolini sent to Spain 130 aircraft, 2,500 tons of bombs, 500 cannons, 700 mortars, 12,000 machine-guns, 50 whippet tanks and 3,800 motor vehicles. ... Italy also supplied 1,800 cannon, 1,400 mortars, 3,400 machine-guns, 6,800 ...

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Also, Germany proposed a network of bilateral trade agreements that was designed to somewhat unite a politically divided Europe. ... By 1933, Hitler had turned Germany into a war machine and the phrase, "Today Germany, tomorrow the whole world "3. ... He furthered Lenin's work by forcing the Russian population to conform to the beliefs of his political party. ... However, his system already had a foundation in Lenin's work in the Russia prior to him, while Hitler completely revamped German politics. ... When compared to Stalin, Hitler's political movements are very similar exce...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate