He would die before World War I. ... In the years before Stalin arrived a number of violent incidents had erupted including a series of student strikes and the murder of a priciple. ... After suffering a defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the Russian Empire was rocked by a series of protests which began with Bloody Sunday, when peaceful demonstrators were gunned down before the Tsar's (kings) Winter Palace in St. ... After many arrests within the ranks of the Georgian Bolsheviks Stalin rose to be there new leader. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrot...

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Twenty years after the First World War had come to an end, realists has shown that the human element of greed and annihilation was too much for the Fourteen Points; World War 2 being the obvious and excruciatingly painful proof. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, something that analysts believe sealed the fate of Germany and Italy. But it was the economic and military polices that the US employed after the war- the Marshall Plan and the Truman ...

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Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. Yet after being embraced by Lenin and his plan for Monumental Propaganda, the avant-garde fail victim to the very monster they helped to construct. ... Published in the AkhRR Exhibition of Studies, Sketches, Drawings, and Graphics from the Life and Customs of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a cohesive feeling of the avant-garde can be concede when it stated: The Great October Revolution has aroused the conscience of the masses and the artist Our civic duty before mankind is to set...

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He quit the seminary before graduation, in order to be a full-time revolutionary. ... After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. ... She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. ... Before this treatise appeared (1914), however, Stalin was sent to Siberia . ... Before the winter of 1918, Stalin had been recalled to Moscow by Lenin. ...

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The U.S. and the Soviet Union has been in a race to try and create an atomic bomb before the other could. ... After WWII, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union were heated. ... After WWII, Germany, as well as Berlin, was divided among the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. ... After WWII, China adopted a type of communism to fit their needs. ... It was not until after the incident at Tiananmen Square in Beiji...

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After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a fierce war, one without fighting, however. ... However, after the war ended, the Soviet Union and the United States became bitter enemies again, much like they were before the war. ... However, after finding photographic evidence to the contrary, the United States and John F. ... President Kennedy, after deciding on a course of action, felt it necessary to inform the general public of the crisis at hand. ... As tensions between the two sides escalated, the United States military level, previously set to ...

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After the Second World War, the development of the international refugee protection regime continued to gather momentum irrespective of difficulties. ... The consequences were the inevitable displacement and uprooting of people leading to a new wave of unprecedented mass refugee movements that was never seen before as people fled both target and indiscriminate violence. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make it ...

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It was a direct result/consequence of the inability of the left and center to co-exist after the disappearance of the right. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... The Soviet delegation argued that a change of governments so soon before a series of free elections would supposedly be held was completely unnecessary. ...

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To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... "Now there stands before us a new task - the industrialization of our country. ... "We make good the difference in ten years, or they crush us," were Stalin's words before he came up with his series of three five year plans. ... "After working for nine hours without a break and without a sip of water or something to eat, I fell to the ground in exhaustion. ...

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Before Nicolae Ceausescu came to power, Romania needed someone to make drastic changes in the government so that they could come out of repression . ... Before Ceausescu came to power the Securitae was controlled mainly by the Soviet Union. ... Another control mechanism perfected by Ceausescu was "rotation", a policy applied after 1971 to strengthen his personal power at the expense of political institutions . ... This policy removed Ceausescu's potential rivals before they were able to develop their own power. ...

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After all these issues are met then you can begin adding in your demands for the market economy (Anders 1995). ... Government employees would go weeks, even months, before being paid. ... Beggars, pimps, dope pushers and other hustler ply their trade as never before" (Parenti, 1997, p. 5). ...

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After WWII was over Germany was divided into four parts. ... After all the land was divided the Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Just like the Soviet Union, the economy in East Germany was struggling to get back on its feet after the war. ... After that was a patrol track with a corridor for watchdogs, watch towers, and bunkers. ... Soon after the free passage was allowed the Berlin Wall was taken down. ...

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After all that occurred all those years ago, Trotsky was indeed spared given the fact that he was not rehabilitated by the government that was under Nikita Khrushchev back in the 1950s. ... His teenage and early adulthood life was full of challenges given that he changed his name from Bronstein to Trotsky after he immigrated to London in the year 1902. ...

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Never before, however, has the human race been so close to inaugurating this Utopian ideal of establishing and empowering government on a planetary scale. ... This is what the advocates of an "empowered United Nations are really after. ... "After World War I, the League of Nations was formed, and after World War II, the United Nations. ... We had better not wait for World War Three before seeking to make the U.N. more effective."" ... The statistics that put this statement into perspective are rather disturbing: "The weapons industry is the world's number-two industry, after oil. ...

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After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, Russia's Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... At first, the Red Army suffered catastrophic defeats, but they rallied, and after crushing the Nazis at Stalingrad in 1942-43, they were on their way to winning the war. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's i...

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Following its inception after World War Two between the two major world powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, began an ideological race for world domination. ... They felt Brezhnev had to be stopped before his gradual spreading of socialism went any further. ... Allen Lynch writes: The strong ideological tone adopted by the Reagan administration in 1981, together with its downgrading of arms control, eventually shattered a strong consensus in Moscow that there were strict limits to hostility intrinsic to the Soviet-American relationship.(3) Reaction in Moscow was reluctant and re...

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After collapsing of Communist Block in Europe USA's administration begun to launch new order in Europe. ... In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. ... The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and it was in 1982. ... The highest point of the mutual cooperation was present after 11 September 2001. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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This vote came after months of protests within Ukraine's capital of Kiev to limit the presidential powers and give amnesty to captive protestors. ... However, after the parliament voted against limiting powers, the flames of revolution grew and the violence intensified. ... In the late month of February, after escalating tensions within the nation of Ukraine and pressure from the EU, President Yanukoych resigned his power to the parliament and fled the country to seek asylum in Russia4. ... Oleksandr Turchynov became interim president after Yanukoych's resignation, but later stepped ...

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On May 7, 1945 the Germans finally surrendered, though their fate was sealed well before this date. ... War criminals were sought after and rounded up for trial. ... It seems as that the Potsdam Conference is remolding Germany back into the way it was in the past, before it was unified under Bismarck. ... This was the idea of a democracy although a democracy was tried before, but it failed. ... Just two years after the war had ended the Germans were reduced to "poor, hungry, and the subject to total foreign control in a country becoming irrevocably divided. ...

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Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. ... Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. ... In Europe after W.W.II, a lot of the continent was left in ruins. ... In 1955, after being occupied for several years, West Germany was allowed to rearm and join NATO. ... Germany, after W.W.II, became a divided country. ...

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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. ... Under Khrushchev, who had succeeded Stalin after his death in 1953, Poland was the first to revolt against the communist regime. ... There had been a breakdown in relations between the East and West due to tensions after WWII. After the war Russia wanted to create a sphere of influence in the East over which the West would have no say or control. ...

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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. ... Under Khrushchev, who had succeeded Stalin after his death in 1953, Poland was the first to revolt against the communist regime. ... There had been a breakdown in relations between the East and West due to tensions after WWII. After the war Russia wanted to create a sphere of influence in the East over which the West would have no say or control. ...

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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. ... Under Khrushchev, who had succeeded Stalin after his death in 1953, Poland was the first to revolt against the communist regime. ... There had been a breakdown in relations between the East and West due to tensions after WWII. After the war Russia wanted to create a sphere of influence in the East over which the West would have no say or control. ...

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Only two days after my birth, Kathy Boudin, received a sentence of twenty years to life in a stat e penitentiary. ... In the first day of trading after the announcement of the merger, the Hasbro stock gained 1.125 dollars to 37.125 dollars on the American Stock Exchange and Milton Bradley stock jumped 2.625 dollars per share to 47.50 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange. ... After another eight days, the House of Representatives approved over sixty-one and a half million dollars in emergency military aid for El Salvador, but voted against any further financing for the Nicaraguan rebels. ...

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These two countries became the strongest super powers after World War II and paraded their strength using the threat of nuclear weapons which came to a head in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, a memorable date for those at the time who waited in the fear that their way of life could be obliterated forever. ... If this were to be so, India would have to stockpile enough nuclear arms to keep up with Pakistan similar to the Cold War syndrome involving US and Russia, "Pakistan might in relation to India inherit the role of the Soviet Union in relation to the United States, courting total ...

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