The Gorbachev era – a period of time, which has been the reason for many controversial theories, raised debatable questions and still, more than 25 years after this time has passed, the consequences of Gorbachev's ruling are still pending under consideration. ... Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is a product of a system that does not encourage radical innovations or reforms, nor open-to-democracy-minded people. ... " 4 As noted, the present economic, social and political system of the USSR is a product of development over a sixty-year span. ... The Soviet system should be refo...

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Marx's theory became Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. ... He then solidified his power in the Party by proposing a policy later known as Stalinism, a theory that sanctioned an unlimited and no longer temporary Soviet dictatorship with the radical intent of employing Socialism in a single country. ... "Stalin inherited a system that resorted to violence and brutality and extended and deepened it." ... Regardless of the prematurity, Stalin's Plan was consistent with the Bolshevik theory that Socialism required a statized and centrally planned economy,...

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But since the demise of socialist system in 1991 and then the triumph of liberal capitalism as well as the western-style democracy, the post-Cold War claimed that liberal democracy lays foundation for a new world order led by the U.S. hegemony which aligns democracy with the western emphasis on "civil and political right". ... Besides, I would like to represent this view through the concepts of feminist theories and together with whether women and girls really have a freedom to choose everything on their own. Feminist theories claim that women are oppressed in a multiplicity of ways that de...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... The latter, for him, makes use of ideology as a mediator between individuals and the system of power. ... Althusser's theory can be applied to the sociopolitical situation in the farm. ... To sum ...

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Marx's theory became Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. ... He then solidified his power in the Party by proposing a policy later known as Stalinism, a theory that sanctioned an unlimited and no longer temporary Soviet dictatorship with the radical intent of employing Socialism in a single country. ... "Stalin inherited a system that resorted to violence and brutality and extended and deepened it." ... Regardless of the prematurity, Stalin's Plan was consistent with the Bolshevik theory that Socialism required a statized and centrally planned economy,...

• Word Count: 1533
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate