"More important" should refer to a factor, which best helps to comprehend why people make political decisions in the way they do and how, in turn, it shapes their political behaviour. ... In this essay, I would like to focus on how each element can be viewed as the most important one and then challenge this idea by looking at how, actually, it is the interaction of the aspects with each other that makes them more powerful than a single element on their own. ... For the sake of this essay, the definition of ideas will be narrowed to normative concepts that identify an outlook on how political i...

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In this essay I will attempt to assess the reasons for the implementation of War Communism. ... This would explain Lenin's hasty interpretation of war communism, with which I started this essay. ... War communism led to a terrible famine throughout Russia, but Lenin started that he would rather the whole nation die oh hunger than allow free trade of grain. ... This represented the start of a change in strategy, leading up to the NEP. ... Some historians such as Peter Boettke have interpreted war communism as a series of short-term emergency measures to help the Bolsheviks keep Russ...

• Word Count: 2081
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Russian Revolution This essay is about the November 1917 revolution, the events that led up to and contributed to the revolution and Lenin's role in the revolution. ... The causes of the Russian Revolution start with the problems, when the duma declared the provisional government it took into hands not only the country but its problems as well, because the government inherited the economic problems it put a great strain on the country's resources thus affecting its performance to run the country properly. ... When it came to the election in November 1917 the Bolsheviks did not get...

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Throughout my essay, I will analyse Lenin's role in regards to the achievements attained by the Bolshevik's. By the start of 1917, the Tsarist rule was confronting intense issues, mainly due to his naive autocracy, "The fundamental cause of the Russian revolution was the incompatibility of the Tsarist state, with the demands of the modern state"1; the peasants were requesting land; the proletariat needed higher wages and better working conditions; the bourgeoisie needed political changes to make Russia a genuine majority ruled government; and each of the three classes wer...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
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It means that people on the mainland are starting to challenge authority, so that the party loses prestige, loses control. ... Oddly enough it is the Tiananmen Square movement that most clearly shows how these conditions help maintain China's dictatorship. ...

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Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transition towards democracy. ... Clearly the transition from communist to democracy would be beneficial, however, perhaps not evident at the very start, but overall prosperous. ... It was these factors that gave Poland an immediate head start in the tr...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... Marx helped the paper to succeed and it almost became the leading journal in Prussia. ... He wrote quite a few works during this time, including an essay entitled "Der Achtzenhnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte" (The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte) and also a pamphlet written on the behalf of the 11 communists he was defending in Cologne. ...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. ... Thus to fully understand one must start at the beginning of the social and political movements. ... The late seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries saw many upheavals in England, which helped to shape the major ideologies that would eventually become the fuel of the Revolution. ...

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In this essay, I will first discuss the relevance of a reform that is pressed by the Chinese people. ... Hence CCP started to cleverly manipulate the nationalist sentiments of the Chinese people to serve its purpose of consolidating its rule. ...

• Word Count: 1912
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate