Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. ... The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the emergence of the common man and democratic rights in France. ... In France, the revolution began as a protest against tyranny and ended by creating an immensely powerful state. ... As with France, the Russian revolution began as a protest against tyranny. ... The Feb revolution had of course, ended the repressive Tsarist regime and signalled ...

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War was a great threat to the consolidation of the French Revolution (1789) and the Russian Revolution (February 1917), however there were other causes that contributed to the revolution. ... In France, war was seen as a major threat to the consolidation of the Revolution. ... Like France, the people of Russia wished for the war to end as it continued to put the society in discontent. ... The involvement of war in both the French and Russian Revolutions were contributing threats to the consolidation of the revolution. ... The French émigrés were considered to be a great threat...

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This brought the Czarism in Russia to an end. ... The first All -Russian Congress was announced by the end of March, 1917. Exhibit 12.3 The leader of the October Revolution, Lenin The brilliant leadership and the moving spirit of Lenin was responsible for the October Revolution in Russia. ... Swain has rightly commented, "Nothing has so completely challenged orthodox theories, since the French revolutionists overthrew the Bourbons. ... The Russian Revolution brought to an end the Czarist regime. ... The success of the Russian Revolution, changed the character of the nationalist revo...

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The Austrian ambassador to Serbia immediately left Belgrade and France, promising to support Russia if they went to war. ... On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and France, ordering a general mobilization of the German mobility. 2. ... The countries involved in the war weren't ready to stop fighting; neither side was ready, willing or able to end the battle. ... What were soviets, and what roles did they play in the March and October Revolutions? ... How did Lenin manipulate the Petrograd Soviet to begin the October Revolution? ...

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When young, Leon joined many revolutionary groups and ended up in great troubles. ... In the end, he became a renowned writer and the best in that newspaper. General causes of the Russian Revolution Poverty In order to understand Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution in the year 1917, perhaps an insight into the causes of the Russian revolution would shed light upon some of the reasons as to why he was a major player in the fight. ... Even though there were those seeking peaceful revolution, the banning of the government only pushed for extreme measures in the end. ... The effect of...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966-1976. ... The main phenomenon dealt with in the essay is the major shift in historical writings against the Cultural Revolution. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, repr...

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It was caused by a revolution known as "The Bolshevik Revolution.... These people, known as royalists, managed to gain support from France, Great Britain, and partly the United States. This whole feud is a result of the "Bolsheviks Revolution.... In the end the two countries were alike in a way the countries ended in becoming communist. ... Despite the differences, The end result was the same, a communist country for both of them....

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Due to such major turning points as the Industrial Revolution, workers were being exploited by profit-hungry employers and public authorities who were not protecting the rights of the poor. ... Then, in 1815, the Industrial Revolution SPREAD to other European countries following the French Revoultion and Napoleonic Wars. ... Then, in the 20th century, America began to face only the beginning of hardships, which would seem to never end. ... Beginning in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalitoin, it widened to include most of the nations in the world. However,...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... As Hitler rose to power in Germany, Stalin first contemplated forming a defensive alliance with Britain and France against the Nazis. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ...

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The war with Poland 1921-22 was won by help from France but also due to the NEP. ... The Russia gained quick and easy victory in the beginning of the war with Pyrrhic victory (Finland), however winning against Germany towards the end was vital, as the reason for Russia to modernise was to stop home invasion and to prosper, and therefore outstanding Nazi Germany invading Russia 1941 was crucial. ... Linin made an impact on the modernization of Russia by leading the revolution. ... This allowed the followers to have desire about modernisation, as they were in the revolution for change to happen....

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Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ... It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... But by the end of 1922, Stalin's growing ...

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"In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." ... "...It would be an infinite crime on the part of the revolutionaries were they to let the chance slip, knowing that the salvation of the revolution, the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to the peasants depend upon them. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ...

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This period came to an end during the Russian revolution of 1917. ... The age of the Romanov's abruptly ended with the brutal slaughter of the Imperial family. ... At the end of the 19th century many people in the countryside were peasants. ... The grand duke wisely declined the title, bringing the 304-year-old Romanov dynasty to an end. ... In the end, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took over control. ...

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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. ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... French historian Alexis de Tocqueville suppor...

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After this incarceration ended, Stalin was sentenced to three years exile in Siberia, from which he managed to escaped in 1904. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October...

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They had a petition to show the Tsar asking for better working conditions and an end to the war against Japan. ... The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should be lead by a small group of dedicated and skilled revolutionaries, they would lead the party and make all the decisions. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ... The theory said that it was the time to start another revolution but Bolsheviks disagreed with the timing, and were later to be proved right. ... This prompted soldi...

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So, by the end of World War Two, all of these countries, including East Germany were under Soviet control. ... After the war ended, tensions grew between the Soviet Union and its former World War Two allies. France, Great Britain, and the U.S. disagreed with the Soviets on topics such as the division of Germany, free elections in Poland, and the reparations paid by Germany. ... This action diminished the revolution and left 25,000 Hungarians dead. ... The Soviets lost control of the Warsaw Pact allies in 1989 to 1990 because the Communist parties were taken over by revolutions in Poland, Hu...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops ther...

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The United States and the Allied Powers faced many challenges at the end of WWII. ... Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Each superpower, the United States, Britain, France and Russia had their own idea of how postwar Europe should look, and many of their ideas clashed. ... After WWII, Germany was divided into four zones and occupied by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. ...

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The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... As troops returned to their native countries following the end of the war, many were greeted with thoughts of displacement and unemployment. ... Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a wo...

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Also, during the Crimean War (1854-1856), France sided with Britain against Russian aggression in the Near East. ... The seeds of hostility between the United States and the U.S.S.R began near the end of World War I. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... At the end of the war, the U.S.A and U.S.S.R were clearly masters of the world. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. ...

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Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. These countries conglomerated to not solely for economic or military reasons, but for ideological reasons as well; France/England/US on the virtues of self-determination and democracy, Germany/Italy/Japan on the ideas of fascism and world domination. ... Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end of World War I. ... The Bolshevik Revolution...

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Since the revolution, trade with the outside world had been severely reduced and the U.S.S.R had to rely almost entirely on its own resources to industrialise. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... In ad...

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The film d'art movement in France dated from 1908. ... After the war, avant-garde experiments liberally punctuated French cinema, and theorists began to treat the medium more seriously, as coequal with literature and the fine arts. ... During the 1920's, the period immediately following the Russian Revolution, the Soviet cinema was among the most exciting in the world, not only practically but also theoretically. ... Pudovkin (Mother, 1926; The End of St.Petersburg, 1927), and Alexander Dovzhenko (Arsenal, 1929; Earth, 1930) remain major landmarks in the history of cinema. ....

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The end of World War II was also the end of a wartime alliance between America and Russia, as Truman and Stalin could not agree of the division of Europe (Divine 666). ... Many western European countries including England, Italy, and France were slowly recovering from the devastation of the war (Divine 670). Years of depression, food scarce, and resentment called for the growing interest in communist voting and expansion, especially in France and Italy (Divine 670). ... There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign...

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