Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. Decisions and laws are made solely by the Party, with the general public having absolutely no power in the decision-making process. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. ... The United States is a democratic nation, and contains all the factors included to support the theory of democratic peace. As stated earlier, leaders of democratic nations are inclined to start institutions promoting peace in a democratic country. ...

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Short-lived governments introduced initial democratic reforms throughout 1991. In 1992, the victorious Democratic Party government under President Sali Berisha began a more deliberate program of market economic and democratic reform. ... Fears that the shift of power from centralized one-party system system to multi-party democracy might turn into bloody revolution proved unfounded owing to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of peacefully-minded reformists committed to a peaceful solution, while the Catholic Church managed to cool down some militant...

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The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. ... The dilemma facing the Russian Federation is that it finds itself with a charge of establishing and following democratic institutions, while at the same time facing secessionary pressures that seem to require extra-democratic means to preserve the integrity of the nation. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. ... He immediately resigned as the Communist party General Secretary, suspended all party activitie...

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Why Was Official Revolutionary Rhetoric No Longer Able To Conceal The Reality Of The Authoritarian One-party State In Eastern Europe In The Late 1980s? ... Earlier that day, the Communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. ... In 1981, Poland's Communist authorities, under pressure from Moscow, declared martial law, arrested Solidarity's leaders, and banned the democratic trade union. ... Soon, the Communist parties of Bulgaria and Albania also ceded power. ... The rhetoric of the early Com...

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On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. ... In semi-democratic parliamentary elections in Poland, the Communists were roundly defeated and soon forced to accept a non-Communist prime minister. ... The reunification of Germany as a democratic nation was not a direct threat to the Soviet Union, but the fall of the Communism in Eastern Europe was. ... The fall of the communist parties in Bulgaria and Albania soon followed. ... He immediately resigned as Communist party general secretary, suspended party activities, and plac...

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They agreed to get rid of all Nazi parties. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. ... These hopes were quickly dashed in the German Democratic Republic. ... In 1969, the Free Democratic Party won a razor thin victory in parliamentary elections, and Willy Brandt became chancellor. ... Its crafty first chancellor, Konrad Adenuer, knew how to exploit for the benefit of his country and his party. ...

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His maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Fell, one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and was the first to suggest that he should run for president. ... He couldn't resist the pressures caused by President Truman and other party leaders, so he agreed to challenge the Republican candidate, Dwight D. ... Even after the election, Stevenson continued to play a large role as leader of the Democratic Party. ... Although hesitant to engage in political competition, he gave into pressure and became a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but was defeate...

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The spied on high school and university students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, and left wing political groups; including the New Democratic Party and the CCF. ... This was a contradiction to many people's democratic rights. ...

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... McCarthy and many other republican politicians believed that the democratic party, along with President Harry S. Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ...

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After Johnson announced that he would not accept or seek another Presidential nomination from his party, this left the field open for two people, Nixon and Robert Kennedy. ... Hubert Humphrey would win the Democratic vote at the convention and would be the representative of the Democratic Party for the election of 1968. This might have been the only good thing to come out of the Democratic National Convention that year. ... However, he didn't take the war very easily, he fought very hard to show that the war had to be fought in order to stop the spread of communism and ensure a demo...

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He then met members from the Social Democratic Party and joined them. ... While he was in jail, the Social Democratic Party than split into two parts. One of the parties was Mensheviks, which were more traditional ideas. The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. ...

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The Soviet Union was a single party state and held a communist economic system that the U.S wanted to hold a 'containment' foreign policy towards. ... Truman handled the nation's containment policy with great success that kept the democratic and free market integrity of western Europe. Through Truman's use of economic aid to suffering european countries, establishing military links with pro-democratic nations, and his firmness when responding to threatening soviet acts, Truman handled the soviet threat to the best of any presidential ability. ... To meet this dilemma hea...

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Unlike Orwell's vision of a one-party dictatorship controlling hundreds of millions, we get instead the world being controlled by the stock markets, and fluctuations in currencies. ... I think that instead of giving more power to these people, we should give government, which for all its failings is at least democratically elected, more regulatory control. ... The Indonesian stock market is very important in world economics, and the government was, until recently, a single-party dictatorship....

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After fighting to a stalemate along the original border of the 38th parallel, the American public grew weary of the war, resulting in the defeat of the Democratic Party in the election of 1952. ... Strongly influenced by his foreign policy advisor, John Foster Dulles, this philosophy meant that the United States would refuse to back down in a crisis even when brought to the brink of war#, a policy that was similarly used regardless of political party. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the comm...

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This was a Soviet based organization which basically supported the action of Marxist parties. ... The countries allied with the United States were all democratic nations while those in the east were communist. ... It prevented the communist ideas of the east from coming into the democratic west. ...

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The parties will consult together whenever, in opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened. Article 5: The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defiance recognized by Article 51 of the charter of the United Nations, will assist the party or parties to attack by taking forthwith, i...

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A short time after leaving the seminary he joined the national Democratic Party's military wing where shortly there after the split of the party (1903) he became a follower of Lenin. ... Lenin broke away from the social democrats in 1912 and started his own party knowing how valuable Joseph was Lenin took him in as a member of his central committee Joseph was only in the committee for less then a year when he was arrested and exiled again , where this time he was sent to Northern Siberia where he could not escape while he was there he took on the name Stalin which meant "Man of steel" (WW...

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He joined the local Democratic Party organization, known as the Kansas City Ward Democratic Club. ... So he started by entering a four way Democratic primary for a judgeship, which was essentially a job supervising roads and buildings. ...

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In the early mornigh hours of August 13, 1961, the top secret top-secret operationwas carried out by the military and police, under the direction of the future head of the German Democratic Republic, Erich Honecker. ... The communist party has found a way to secure its future-by walling its people in. ...

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The land controlled by the Soviet Union became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ... As the years went by, the leaders of East Berlin's communist Party decided to allow some people to cross into West Berlin to visit relatives. ...

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The man is escorted out and where he is killed by party members. ... The party demanded that Solomon retract his poem because the communist party believes that Marxs ideas were uninfluenced by previous ideas and theories. ... By refusing the accept party believes, Solomon was blacklisted. ... The party uses the newspaper to expose him for being an ex-communist party member, making it nearly impossible for him to keep a job. ... The United States wanted to create a democratic state with a Vietnamese leader that was pro-Western with anti-communist values. ...

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YAF as a Reflection of Protest Culture Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is an organization of college students who are on the conservative Right of the Republican party. ... While less radical and violent than the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), their approximate liberal equivalent, YAF was generally a very successful college political organization. Few groups of young people have been influential enough to take over a political party and get a candidate nominated for the presidency of the United States, as YAF was able to do with the Republican party and Barry Goldwater in the...

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Kennedy usually backed bills sponsored by his party but would sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. ... Despite Kennedy's wavering within his own party platform, John F. ... Kennedy wanted the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, and almost as soon as the 1956 election was over, he began working toward it. Kennedy announced his candidacy early in 1960 and by the time the Democratic National Convention opened in July, had won seven primary victories. ...

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Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. This began with the wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. ... A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. ... President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. ...

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Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. These "practical contributions" were the reason of his expelling from the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907; when he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). ... Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party d...

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