... against the citizen and maintaining legitimacy that way. However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. The difference comes with the West's general liberal stance which prioritises the rights of the individual over the collective good – a societal ... regime it established by appealing to the end goal or the ideal which is being pursued. Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution,...

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... of the decade, Hara Takashi, was the first commoner to hold the position in Japan's history. Education had been universalized, and social mobility seemed to be on the increase. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women ... Japan, labor conflict had become a social problem of importance24.' The Japanese Communist party, for example, was formed in 1922 with the backing of the Comintern to spread the success of revolu...

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