This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contemporary film making. - German Expressionism and Formalism, both of which occurred in the 1910's and mainly in the 1920's. ... It all started with the Great War that crippled the people in Europe not only emotionally but also economically. ...

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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...

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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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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. In my essay I will examine the consequences of those events and suggest other ideas on the origins of the Cold War. ... Shortly afterwards the first troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force leave for Murmansk and Arhangelsk to help the White Army, which was supporting the Tsar, in the civil war against the Bolsheviks, hoping, in Winston Churchill&#...

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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...

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Consequently but unless otherwise stated, this essay would make extensive use but not limited to the works of Gil Loescher. ... The first conscious attempt at the international level to solving refugee problems started in 1921 when the first High Commissioner for Refugees was appointed by the League of Nations. ... The Origins of the international Refugee Regime - 1920's It is generally believed in the academic circle and among scholars that the international refugee protection regime started in the twentieth century. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not h...

• Word Count: 4488
• Approx Pages: 18
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