The Red Terror in Russia differs from the genocide in Germany. ... The Untermenschen (sub-humans) posed an dilemma for Germany. ... Occupied territories were Germanized by force as quickly as possible to make way for German resettlement. ... Both the Terrors of the German Holocaust and the Red Terror were both successful each government succeeded in holding together a nation under one un-elected ruler. ... (O"Kane 1991 166) The Terror symbolised the change in government the previous government of Cuba had been tortures and murderers convicted of war crimes Castro's ...

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Germany had inflicted a decisive defeat on France in 1871 in the last of the wars which created the German Empire. ... France had recovered quickly from its defeat by Germany in 1871. ... Nevertheless, France had caused to fear Germany. ... The recovery of Alsace and Lorraine, which the French government regarded as essential, was not fully supported by Britain because of uncertainly about weather the inhabitants wished to be French or German. ... Successive British governments refused to risk votes by introducing national service, despite pressure from men like Kipling. ...

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Germany was another country that was severely affected by inflation (Appendix 1) due to shortages, an excess of imports over exports and of government expenditure over income. Germany was also largely in debt as the Treaty of Versailles declared that the war had been Germany's fault and that they should pay for the damage caused. ... Economic suffering had made people demand governments to take strong measures to stop further economic decline. ... Governments that failed to fight the depression caused domestic politics to become chaotic. ... Most governments implemented new taxes to help...

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What was the policy of the Provisional Government? ... The first problem meeting the Provisional government was its leadership. ... Especially the Bolsheviks" return of Lenin from Switzerland with German support was an important event, bringing back his leader-skills and ideas. The fact that Germany also helped the Bolsheviks with some economic resources, eager as they were to get Russia out of the war, did neither weaken them. ... Without the German support to Lenin there would also have been greater difficulties for the Bolsheviks to stand as strong as they did. ...

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Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." ... His repeated military blunders "assured Germany's loss of the war." ... Weather On October 2nd 1941 German troops marched on Moscow, with only 90,000 Russian soldiers defending the capital, the government was preparing to evacuate. ... Swamped mud tracks did not support German trucks designed for French roads. ... Their success is evidenced in the occupying German forces retaining collectivized farms under German occupation . ...

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In fact, no Russian citizen could leave the country without special government permission. ... Once in office, he took the title of Fuhrer and assumed absolute control of the government and absolute sovereignty over all Germans in Europe. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. It shows how all-German states were abolished, all opposing political parties ceased to exist, and how the government regulated the racial make up of the country. The government created the National Labor Front, which...

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The maneuvering of the Austrian government during the crisis compels me to place a large portion of the blame on Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of WW I. ... ssumed the posture of war on behalf of Serbia while the Serbian government sought diplomatic solutions to the tensions. ... Germany, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, on the other hand, seemingly suffered from a national inferiority complex. The Germans were frustrated with existing in the shadow of the British Empire for so long. ... France, hoping to bring balance to the combined powers of Germany, aligned with Russia, who backed Serbia. ...

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Germany, divided at the end of the war, was split into Eastern/Communist Germany and Western/Democratic Germany. ... Previously, under the Hallstein Doctrine, West Germany refused to recognise East German sovereignty. ... The East Germans believe their claim to the whole of Berlin had been sacrificed. ... The government's deficit was growing larger and imports were expanding. ... This was a policy of economic reform via privatization and reduced government expenditure. ...

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Nicholas made very bad decisions in his ruling, one of these was in 1915 he left his country to take charge of the military, leaving his German wife to rule Russia. Many Russians did not like a German leading Russia and Nicholas become more unpopular amongst his people. ... Following the idea of Karl Marx, a German writer, another revolutionary group was created, the Social Democratic Party. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ... Alexander Kerensky then became prime minister of the Prov...

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Moreover, he was called to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and that didn't trust the government's promises and actions. ... Farmers could now lease land from the government and keep the profits made from selling products grown in their land. ... Discontent soon spread to East Germany, as it became clear that Gorbachev would not use force to put down anti-Communist revolts". ... East and West Germany were heading towards unification but obstacles were put in the way by the Soviet Union. ... Germany was united with the opening of the Berlin Wall on ...

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The meeting between Churchill and Stalin implies that both the leaders were concerned and looked forward to what could happen when Germany was defeated. At its height, the Nazi Germany conquered most the Europe, and when Germany would be defeated, this would leave larger part of the continental Europe without any meaningful administrations or governments. The conventional forms of governments in Europe had been discredited, particularly in the East of Europe where the resistances to the German conquests had been predominantly ineffective. ... For instance, the Soviet Union had been invaded f...

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The events changed Russia completely and brought the people a new form of government. ... As the Duma's government became weaker the power of the Soviets became stronger. ... They viewed the empress as untrustworthy since she had come from Germany, Russia's enemy in World War I. During World War I Russian army lost many soldiers in their fight against the Germans. ... He signed a treaty with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk in early 1918. ...

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"(7) Lenin was eager to return to Russia and did so with the help of German authorities. ... On the 27 March they left on a German train, funded by the German government for Russia. ... It was at this time that circumstances for the Provisional government worsened. Pri-minister Alexander Kerensky launched a major attack on the Germans, which proved to be a fatal error and a massive defeat. ... It was at this time known as the "July days" that evidence proving that the Germans funded Lenin surfaced. ...

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Rivalry between Germany and Britain arose due to Germany becoming industrially and economically successful very quickly. ... Britain saw Germany as a threat to her empire and feared Germany would use her navy against Britain. ... The formation of the Entente Cordiale and the Franco-Russian alliance worried the German government as they felt they were becoming encircled by the France, Russia and Great Britain. ... Germany was challenging the French, by asserting German power. ... Germany won only commercial freedom. ...

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He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government, swept away the old monarchist order. ... Richard Sorge, a Soviet agent of German-Russian parentage, the press attaché to the German embassy in Tokyo, also assisted, by providing Zhukov with the Japanese order of battle. ... The Japanese Kwantung Army commander was now more than ready for a cease-fire, and in Tokyo Japanese political leaders hoped that the Soviet government would be content with a re-drawing of the disputed borders. ... In German hands it would block...

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The tension in Crimea started when a group of armed Crimean men took over the buildings of the government and waved the flag of Russia. They protested the new government in Ukraine and showed support to Russia. ... The Russian government, despite oppositions, continued to send troops. ... The result of the referendum was highly favorable to the Russian government stating that the people had already spoken and they chose to be part of the Russian Federation (Malleson, 134). ... In order to fully understand the actions of the Russian government in invading some parts of Ukraine and in imposing u...

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Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. ... Once Germany had been defeated in 1945 the war time allies between the USA, UK and the USSR began to break up. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governmen...

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The Government was then taken over in the absence of the Czar by a group of bankers, lawyers, industrialists and capitalists. ... The main goal of the Bolsheviks was to set up a government for the proletariat, or working class. The Provisional Government finally fell when thousands of Red Guards(armed workers) stormed the Winter Palace at the signal from the battleship Aurora and overran it, sealing the Provisional Government's fate. Lenin immediately began his attempt to construct a socialist government in Russia according to the philosophy of Karl Marx. After the death of Lenin, the...

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Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... He insisted on the communist dominated Polish Committee of National Liberation that had proclaimed itself the "provisional government of National Unity. ... Despite admiration for the Rus...

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Many Americans and Germans came to the USSR as technical consultants because they could not find jobs in the depression era. ... The removal of class structures provided opportunities for a new social structure reinforced by the reimposition of more traditional and conservative values by the government. ... In return for Soviet neutrality, Germany promised the return of Polish lands as well as access to German industrial and military equipment. ... On 22 June German forces invaded the Soviet Union. ... The Nazi Germany attack on the USSR provided an enormous test for the Soviet Union. ...

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On June 6 1872, Alix was born Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice von Hesse in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. ... He favored a match between Germany and Russia for a strong alliance between the two countries. ... In 1914,war broke out with Germany(WW1). ... Although Germany was her country of birth, she was Russian at heart. ... Soon after, Nicholas arrived home under arrest by the new Provisional Government. ...

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He was captured by the Germans during World War II, but escaped and arrived back to the Red Army hoping to be accepted as a hero, but instead was accused of treason and spying for the Germans. ... It was this fear of the people that Stalin wanted, because if all people are living in fear of speaking out against the government, then the government is able to do as it pleases with no challenge. ... This is just one of the many issues with having a society in which it is impossible to speak out against the government. ... The book was revolutionary to the Soviet people because it brought the awa...

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Alexandra was also German, which made many people distrust her. ... The head of the Russian Orthodox Church was a government minister working for the Tsar. ... With nothing being done to change the situation, hatred of Tsar Nicholas II and his German wife was forever increasing. ... (Rasputin) Many rumours, such as the Empress was in league with the Germans were started and in 1916, a liberal leader accused the Tsarina of being a German agent in one of his speeches. ... Nicholas and Alexandra had lost the confidence and respect of the people of Russia because they had failed to bring R...

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In addition, when government interferes with a firm's ability to take money in and out of the country, political risk may emerge. ... The firms also need to know if the countries rely on the free market or if the government allocates resources. Companies also have to understand how the host country's government views foreign investors in relation to the countries economic goals. ... The Russian government does not like the idea of the oil running just outside of their boarders. ... The cost of this investment will total $2.9 billion dollars, which is reasonable because this pip...

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These two groups inhabited the major cities of Russia and pioneered her industrial revolution, decades after other nations such as France, England and Germany had begun theirs. ... With a useless government, social discontent only grew worse and as it did, repression got more intense. ... As Tsar Nicholas II took up his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, he was forced to frequently leave his capital, Petrograd, for long periods of time - leaving his German wife, Tsarina Alexandra, in control. ... This led to massive mistrust of the government amongst all walks of society and m...

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