This magnificent piece was originally created for the London Symphony Orchestra, and the featured soloist was the orchestra's tuba player, Philip Catalinet. ... The piece itself was originally thought of as quite peculiar, and dismissed as the crazed ramblings of an aging, senile composer, as it was one of his later works, and he was 82 years of age upon completing this piece. ... This conflict had divided Europe, both metaphorically, with what Winston Churchill referred to as an "Iron Curtain," And physically, with the Berlin Wall, built to keep capitalist West Berlin and communist East ...

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A great aggregation of men, with a healthy spirit and warmth of heart, creates a moral conscience which is called a nation" That is why nationalism is closely related with ethnicity and has been considered as an inseparable piece of the causes of Ethnical conflicts. ... Azerbaijani belongs to the Turkic group of the Altay linguistic family, Georgian is one of the Caucasian languages, while Armenian constitutes a separate tongue within the Indo-European family. ... Later, while Xenophon conquered and ruled this region, armenians were known as a separate ethnic and political group and were sha...

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Obviously there are many aspects that influence film and its development. The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contem...

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On December 25, 1991, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russia. As the world watched in amazement, the most successful communist country, the USSR, collapsed and disintegrated into...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." introduction T...

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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. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...

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