These extreme authoritarian measures were necessary for developing a new coercive machinery of power. ... War Communism comprised of centralized control over both urban and rural economies with the compulsory requisitioning of grain (prodrazverstska) and the nationalization of banks, transport, and heavy industry, reinforced in Lenin's "Decree on the nationalization of large-scale industries." War Communism implemented a systematic use of terror; many who reacted against these new measures were arrested, imprisoned or sent to labor camps. ... Despite betraying Marxist principles, the...

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In the end of the first part Russia would not admit that is taking any part in this conflict, while on the other side NATO in response to the Russians will not increase for now the defense measures, but we know it all very well how to Russians play so in response to their dirty play NATO has to play its card very well for it may trigger a preventive war. ... These are dire times we are facing, time when both NATO and Russia should reconsider their strategy especially the Russians with their Near Approach Strategy, which in a great measure is a mimic of the USSR Strategy used during the Cold Wa...

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Moreover, Lenin's early popular communist measures were changed which in turn was accepted by the party including the removal of worker rights, and the re-institution of conscription and army hierarchy. ...

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The Ukrainian revolution of February 2014 (also known as the Euro-Maidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity Ukrainian: Революція гідності) took place after a series of violent events towards protesters in the capital of Kiev that culminated with the flight and subsequent ...

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Gibbon was born in 1737, a young man of delicate health and fairly good fortune; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he...

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