Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... Civil War (1918-1920) significantly altered the Bolsheviks structure of ruling- from a disorderly yet democratic system into a 'dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... In 1918, the need to fight a civil war and to build a socialist society were the two distinct burdens the communist party faced. ... To restore the shattered economy and political stability of Russia after the failure ...

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In answer to this question, we must first determine who the major powers of Europe were at the end of the Napoleonic Wars before we can look at the similarities and differences between them. ... Before the Napoleonic era, Europe was a continent stuck in a bygone age of traditional views regarding Technology, Economy, Society and Politics. ... The decisions taken by the great powers of Europe; namely Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia and also the vanquished France, during the Congress of Vienna in 1815, were ultimately instrumental in the forging of the new Europe and in the peace, which ...

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The most important and influential period during Cambodia's ancient history was that of the Khmer Empire rule starting around 802 AD and lasting as long as 1431. ... This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. ... Furthermore, during this time, unrealistic economic and production goals were set, with farmers being told to produce around three tons of rice per hectare of land (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor). This horrific time period came to an end during the lat...

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In the end all that has remained from this "decaying" corpse" is a strong oil economy and other raw materials and a strong army although not trained in the arts of combat since the Georgian War was more of a training with live ammunition, but in the end sticking to the Russian side of the road as Lenin said in every quantity is a quality. ... In the end it seems that we go back to where we left it in regards to the Cold War. ... It is most likely that if treated with superficiality this will end up like the Libyan crisis, a country in civil war so this is why we have noticed a change of rheto...

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Thereafter, Yanukovych signed a treaty and multi-billion dollar loan with Russia instead, which sparked civil unrest in Kiev that ultimately led to violent clashes as law enforcement troops cracked down on protesters. ... According to an October 2014 estimate by the World Bank, the economy of Ukraine contracted by 8% during the year 2014 as a result of the crisis. ... The war in Donbass caused a coal shortage in Ukraine, as the Donbass region had been the chief source of coal for power stations across the country. ... The combination of these two problems led to rolling blackouts across ...

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In the Northeast and Old Northwest, rapid transportation improvements and immigration hastened the collapse of an older yeoman and artisan economy and its replacement by cash-crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing. In the South, the cotton boom revived a flagging plantation slave economy, which spread to occupy the best lands of the region. ... And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of establi...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when internati...

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