The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. With the Tsarist autocracy, and the highly ineffective provisional government of Kerensky in the recent memory of the people of Russia, Lenin found a receptive audience for his theories. ... It underwent an inflation of terms, as the promises and theories of each leader were in turn proven to be false. ... The eventual revolution can, in the most extreme terms be seen as the final loss of patience wi...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with ...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. ... This was followed, in January of 1935, by the arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev themselves, along with a number of their allies; they would be tried in secret, accused of having "inspired" Kirov's assassination, and given long jail terms. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... His conclusion was that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. ... Given the innate hostility of the Soviet Union and settled upon a policy of "containing "Russian expansionism." ... The US Gov...

• Word Count: 1800
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