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. ... The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- century German thinker. ... Lenin worked most closely with Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik take over of the government. Within a few months, opposition to the new government develo...

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Karl Heinrich Marx was born and raised in Trier, Germany, May 5th, 1818. ... Members of the group believed the German working class suffered under the present government, which inspired Marx to conclude that only socialism could end it. ... There he was offered the position of editor for a new political journal, Franco-German Annals. ... Once His ideas were published, the Franco-German Annals were immediately banned in Germany February 1844. ... During this period, he continued to work on his book, The German Ideology. ...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. ... Governments should promote free trade and not interfere by protecting certain industries from competition. Smith says the governments only duty was to provide services such as the building of roads and schools that could not be lucrative. ... In these constitutional governments, only those who posse a certain capital are voters. ... Communism is a system of government, where the state plans and controls the economy and in authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a...

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In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the...

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They were condemned as cowards, pro-German socialists, although that was not everything. ... The government put in place legislation, not only against the Wobblies, but also against Socialists and Communists, due to the fact that the government did not distinguish one of its enemies from another. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." Words such as "advocating" and the vague language used in the law allowed the government to u...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. It is a term used to describe the conflict between the U.S and Russia during the post-war period. However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it ...

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Changes in the Soviet Union consequently caused other communist regimes in Eastern European countries like Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria to collapse. ... Even though the desire of the Chinese citizens to end the Communist regime and establish a democracy resulted in the government returning to its conservative roots, the revolution was a wake up call to the west to act against the oppressive acts of the Chinese regime. ...

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Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance and stability on the European continent. ... A certain role in the development of the situation in this area has played and the position occupied by formally independent (from the USSR), the governments of Eastern European countries. ... Defeated was obvious - Germany, but contenders for laurels of winners there were many, the overall victory no one wanted to admit that predetermined the inevitability of clashes, aggravated by the incompatibility of the ...

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Karl Marx introduced Marxism into the world because he believed that social standing was determined by money. Through creating such divisions as the upper, middle, and lower class, the theory of Marxism analyzes what ways capitalism can be used against the people. In the book The Grapes of Wrath wri...

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Brief Biography Born to an upper middle class family in 1818 in Prussia (Germany), Marx was exposed to the ideas of social change at a young age (Marx and McLellan, 2000). ... Communism itself is defined as "a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products and there is no privately owned property" (Almond, 2015, pg. 5). ...

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He believed Germany would invade soon and Russia would be ill equipped to defend itself. ... He felt insecure; people were questioning his leadership, his intentions and his rule over a totalitarian government. ...

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