Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to guide the working class into revolution. ... Lenin wrote: "To the question, "What would the party of the proletariat do if the revolution placed it in power in the present war?" ... He did not believe it necessary for the Bolsheviks to be the catalyst of an international revolution. ... Through this work Stalin presents socialism as a scientific development began by Marx, and continued by Lenin and himself. ... Lenin believed that after the revolution a classless society would come into being and the remnants of the state would wither away...

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The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. ... The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy, and the United States' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1...

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Society was brought from a position decades behind the West to one of near economic and scientific equality within thirty years. ... Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ...

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For complete subjection of the population, the leading party must use advanced technological and scientific means. ... In the case of 1984, totalitarianism is established after a revolution occurs. ... The dictators normally do not allow citizens to possess weapons so that, in case of a revolution, the government can quietly and easily put it down. ...

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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...

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Formalism is more specific, more "scientific-, and more concerened with elements, the details that go to make up this force. ... During the 1920's, the period immediately following the Russian Revolution, the Soviet cinema was among the most exciting in the world, not only practically but also theoretically. ... It was soon after the revolution in 1917 and unable to find enough filmstock to fuel their projects, they turned to reediting films already made, and in the process discovered a number of truths about the technique of film montage. ...

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