The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurrection and protracted revolutionary warfare. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of revolutionary warfare and gave the French a false sense of security that the Viet Minh could never match them in a "set-piece" battle. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... A number of Viet Minh remained in the South as a cadre for a future ...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. ... Creating art under the epoch of Cubism and Futurism, the Russian avant-garde sought to generate an innovative fresh structure to their Revolutionary art. ... As a result of Lenin's Plan, historians can note a revolutionary idea, prophesized through Marxism ideology, conceded and carried out. ... Despite the hardships, the food and fuel shortages, artists managed to express ...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets th...

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In particular, Feodor Gladkov's novel represents the struggles of post-Revolutionary construction in a Russian village and includes insight into the minds of his characters, giving us a glimpse into the real Soviet citizen. ... Although Gleb remains a strong, revolutionary figure throughout the novel, Gladkov delves deeper into the internal conflict Gleb must attempt to overcome in order to adjust to a new society, a new wife, and a new home. Ultimately, Cement is a portrayal of the inner conflict that many battled during the revolutionary era. ... Gleb's former comrades barely re...

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He would die before World War I. ... Stalin escaped but he lost his job and became a professional revolutionary. ... Armed uprisings broke out and grew into civil war. ... The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. They then began to rebuild the war-torn country. ...

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Karl Marx Karl Marx was the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and to fail due to the creation of the middle class. Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. His life contributed to the way people think today, and because of him people are more open to suggestion and are quicker to create ideas on political issues. ...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the...

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The title originally came from this song, which was written during the Civil War in 1861 when Julia and her husband became part of the U.S. sanitary commission. They inspected the conditions in the Prisoner of War camps, including Union Camps. While visiting one, a soldier asked her to write a song for the war effort, so she wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic" accordingly. ... Take the Civil War for example. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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But in typical Yeltsin contradictory manner, the war in Chechnya has demonstrated the worst of the Yeltsin regime. ... The war was connected more with the struggle for power in Moscow than with either economic or ethnic factors. ... Lilia Shevtsova considers the Chechnyan war a byproduct of the Yeltsin regime's reliance on personal politics. ... These include questions of international recognition, Russian implemented economic pressures, and devastating civil war (Lapidus 108). ... The revolutionary fervor that characterized the early economic reforms did not take into account ...

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