In compliance with this thought, we will also look at freedom house, which gives an annual report on the levels of freedom' in each particular country, again proving essential to identify who is progressing and who is lagging or at a standstill. ... It is not just political freedom that matters, but also general freedom, which supports additional rights and liberties, "the freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life- (Pericles 431b.c). ... It is the transition from communist to democratisation we will be looking at, and whether or not the transition was smooth ...

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He said that they were the first to have free enterprise. ... The Europe and US were rich and happy. ... They call this seed money because you have to have money before you have a campaign. ... In a Communist Society people are naturally free, loving, caring, and sharing. ... After the revolution we would elect the same managers as before because they have the experience. ...

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Before the differences between the two ideologies can be explained we must first understand the principles from which they stem from: Capitalism. ... Governments should promote free trade and not interfere by protecting certain industries from competition. ... In countries where before industry had been based on manufacture were violently forced out of their isolation. ... There were some other consequences of the industrial revolution; free competition. ... They were back in business, but it was not too long before too many commodities were again produced, and the same course of action again...

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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. ... Is it possible to doubt that we shall be equal to this new task, the industrialization or 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. ... Inmates in the gulags or labour camps were used...

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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. ... Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. ... The streets were filled with joy, as all through Russia artists embraced the Revolution, calling for a change. ... We will provide a true picture of events and not abstract concoctions discrediting our Revolution in the face of the proletariat. The old art groups existing before the Revolution have lost their meaning The day of revolut...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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She writes "Yeltsin saw the war as a chance to flex his muscles...neutralize the conflicts within his own regime; expand his political base...and appear before the world...as a strong leader- (Shevtsova 67). The tragedy in Chechnya not withstanding, and with all due concern towards the dangerous tensions that exist between Moscow and it various ethnic republics, I agree with Gail Lapidus and Edward Walker that it is unlikely that we will see a significant secession movement in the Russian Federation in the near future. ... But what were the Russians to do in the meantime? ...

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However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books written or translated into English regarding the matter were rare, to say the least. ... There were exceptions- MacFarquhar's recent works are not as apologist to Mao as Origins of the Cultural Revolution, and the main cause of this seems to be the changing nature of evidence and world events. ... While most historians were analysed according to their general and individual perspectives at the time of writing, others were simply defined by their genera...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... Moreover, the relations to Hungary, which, after the introduction in 2001 of t...

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To answer this, I have selected three countries in East Asia who are close to China in geographical terms and also very similar to China before the Foreign Direct Investment swarmed into China in the 1990s; India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. ... As of right now, we have not seen groups of investors pull their investments out of China. ... Due to the power outage many factories were forced to cut down their production; seeing that power is the life-blood of production. ... "Would make it very difficult for me to explain to the board that we want to stay here and want to develop the compa...

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The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ... As Lenin had made clear, the N.E.P was a step backwards so that we can make two steps forward' and in 1928 these two step forwards were becom...

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