Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... It is 1945, Hitler is dead and Europe is in shambles and in need of major reparations. ... The Marshal plan came shortly afterwards ensuring American aid to reconstruct Europe, preventing communism at all costs. Having a division of Europe between the east and the west only gave a physical boundary to this cold war and meetings in Tehran and Yalta assured that this conflict of powers would ensure a battle of cultural development. ... In the wake of all this fear was a portrayal o...

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Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. ... However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europe to its end. It proved that Communism in Eastern Europe was just a theory that did not work in reality. ... This modification contributed to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. ... The freedom of politic, social, culture, and economic were controlled. ...

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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. ... The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. ... The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ... It was this that gave generations of Soviets confidence in the future, a developed education system and reasonable mass healthcare, a very high level of culture and the emergence of a broad stratum of the intel...

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The focus has shifted from Inter-European wars to conflicts between the West and non- Western civilizations. ... Fifth, it is simpy harder to solve differneces in culture then it is to solve differneces on economical or political issues. ... One part shares the common Western European history starting with feudalism, while the other was heavily inlfluenced by the developments in the Ottoman Empire (Huntington, 1993, p. 30). ... Huntington, however did not deny similarities in different civilizations, and he recognized overlapping practices in cultures (Huntington,1993, p. 24). ... Croatia o...

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The ideals set forth in the Manifesto were destined to influence revolutionaries all over Europe. ... After these leagues were united from several cities in Europe, Marx and Engels were commissioned to formulate a statement of principles. ... The second section Marx emphasizes the need to abolish private property, a fundamental change in material existence that will hinder the bourgeois culture. ... He like many other revolutionaries were forced to wander Europe in search of an impartial country. ... Marxism had its main impact in Europe's slower developing countries, Germany,...

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Although both Truman and Stalin broke the tension between Western Europe and Asia, Stalins obsession over converting the world into communism is what caused such rebellious acts from western europe, which inevitably forced them to resist to preserve its social and political culture. 1917 was the point where a clear difference between the "West" and Russia was established, Russia was mainly responsible for creating this division and was also, to an extent, to blame for the increase of distrust and tension this division caused. ... The emergence of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s signaled t...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in East...

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Suzerain Russia couldn't avoid inducting capitalism and even disorganized USSR then east Europe communism country collapsed in 90's. ... Particularly, Europe companies are actively challenging America's military industry. ... Reporter asked another question about what is driving resistance to the coalition force and he answered as "I think there is in Europe an old-fashioned, lingering resentment of American power. Europe was once the center of the world. I have some understanding of the European point of view, but I'm more understanding of the American position, because I ...

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The student culture at Bonn included, as a major part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved, presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included some politically active students. ... The Hegelian doctrines exerted considerable pressure in the "revolutionary student culture" that Marx was immersed in, however, and Marx eventually joined a society called the Doctor Club, involved mainly in the "new literary and philosophical movement" who's chief figure was Bruno Bauer, a lecturer in theology who thought that the Gospels were not a record of History but t...

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The student culture at Bonn included, as a major part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved, presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included some politically active students. ... The Hegelian doctrines exerted considerable pressure in the "revolutionary student culture" that Marx was immersed in, however, and Marx eventually joined a society called the Doctor Club, involved mainly in the "new literary and philosophical movement" who's chief figure was Bruno Bauer, a lecturer in theology who thought that the Gospels were not a reco...

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This was declared because Singapore, said to be an impenetrable fortress, was defeated by the Japanese, which just showed that the British were too tied up with their own war in Europe that they could not be relied upon to protect their territories in Asia. ... After Japan had been defeated and the European powers weakened, many Asian and Pacific nations wanted independence. ... When the flow of British migrants slowed they did not look to Asia to keep migration but to southern Europe (Greece, Italy) and Eastern Europe (Baltics, Yugoslavia). ... One of the reasons the change eventually came ar...

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The movement had reverberations which stimulate into similar protests in cities throughout Europe. ... Furthermore, it was the first general strike that extend beyond the traditional centers of industrial production to include workers in the service industries, the communication, and culture industries----- the whole sphere of social reproduction. ... Culturally, May 68 played a role in changing the ways which re- examine identities, their history, their environment and their political rights and responsibilities it is now common for some commentators to divide social attitudes in Europe into...

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After the second war in Europe ended, and Hitler lost all power the Allies needed to find a way to successfully rebuild Europe and so they put all their ideas into the Yalta Conference. ... One part of the conference that I found interesting was when all of the Allies agreed on the new governments that should be put into place over the old Dictatorships "The establishment of order in Europe and the rebuilding of national economic life must be achieved by processes which will enable the liberated peoples to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism and to create democratic institutions of...

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Stalin subjected society and culture to strict party surveillance and control, issuing pro-socialist, xenophobic propaganda, censoring literature, art, and media, and launching anti-religious campaigns . ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. ... Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "t...

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Stalin subjected society and culture to strict party surveillance and control, issuing pro-socialist, xenophobic propaganda, censoring literature, art, and media, and launching anti-religious campaigns . ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. ... Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "t...

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Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera was influenced by the wars in the early 1900s that paved the way for a Bolshevik culture rooted in the principles of communism. ... At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... These new leaders preached communism which changed the societal culture throughout Russia; however, many Russian peasants were hesitant toward the new government ideas and policies. ... After the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks &qu...

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The regions that are considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. ... Nationalism forges together a sense of people hood or belongingness based on common history, ancestry, culture, language or religion. ...

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God was in everything which means that God could also be found in culture and civilization. ... If you look at europe you can see the development of the European Union. It is a institution which unifies the economy of europe. ...

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(pg. 475) The bourgeoisie rise to power in Europe is an example of how society transformed itself across the world. ... In achieving this goal, the proletariat will destroy all remnants of bourgeoisie culture including family, religion, and morality. ... Marx's Communist theory was wrong because the bourgeoisie, capitalist culture did not need to be destroyed so the proletariat could free itself. ...

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Although Chinese leaders may have had different methods and motives for establishing new political and economic systems, they all sought to shake off the hold European powers had on their ancient civilisation. ... " (Davies, J. 1999) After six months of service, Mao left secondary school in Changsha and dedicated his time to studying and publishing articles in local journals about "the new culture" and promoting cultural reform (Columbia, Asia for Educators.edu, 2004). ...

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For decades Albania was the Eastern Europe's most closed and repressive state. ... Even though the regime's objectives for the new school system were to reflect communist ideology, to wipe out illiteracy in the country as soon as possible, to struggle against "bourgeois survivals" in the country's culture, to transmit to Albanian youth the ideas and principles of communism as interpreted by the party, and finally to educate the children of all social classes on the basis of these principles. ...

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