In many revolutions, there is a circle of events that starts right after a revolution and ends with the society ready to rebel again. ... Most revolutions begin with one basic thought: there is something wrong with this society and something should be done about it. ... Sometimes the government will be able to stop the revolution, but in Animal Farm as with many other revolutions, they could not. ... The United States of America is one of the few countries that began out of a revolution and has not had its' government overthrown. This is most likely because America has elected leaders...

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And after the war in 1919, there was a major breakthrough - women over 30 were allowed vote for the first time in American history. 4. ... What were soviets, and what roles did they play in the March and October Revolutions? ... The two revolutions occurred during harvest, enabling the Russian people to make money and feed their families. ... How did Lenin manipulate the Petrograd Soviet to begin the October Revolution? ...

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However, as in all successful revolutions, the leaders begin with idealist principles that are forced to change to more practical doctrines because of realism. ... Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the government of Russia to that of Marxism, or communism. ... The idealized figure, the worker in whom the intelligentsia placed their hopes, carried a toughness and relentlessness that was necessary for the revolution. ... "As good Marxists, the Bolsheviks nationalized banking and credit very quickly after the October Revolution. ... He strays between complete polar op...

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The Cold War begins with the end of the Second World War (WWII) in 1945, when the world was left crippled and needed to be reconstructed in some manner. ... The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... This was written before Karl Marx's Da...

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(http://www.nationalhistoryday.com) The legal status of serfs was much the same as the status of slaves in America. ... The chief of Russian police wrote to the Tsar Nicholas I in 1839 about reform, "it is better to begin gradually, carefully, than to wait for it to begin from below, from the people. ... Although the serfs were "emancipated" in 1861, many did not receive real freedom from serfdom until the Russian Revolution of 1917. ...

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