The powers establishing hegemony over the society use an important part of the people known as intellectuals to impose their world-view. ... Undoubtedly the most important topic of an investigation into a historical occurrence is its inception. ... At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... Some organizations such as the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later be renamed the American Civil Liberties Union, took up the task of standing up for the rig...

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He would die before World War I. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... Armed uprisings broke out and grew into civil war. ... The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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• Grade Level: High School

Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the First World War and the civil war. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. 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 more important officials to object to it. ... To...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Furthermore it will discuss the important issue of the European Union, and show how, depending on the country, and its success of democracy it has been given the opportunity to join the European Union, which proves to be a very important indicator as to who has succeeded and who has not. ... The list goes on, and with two world wars, the division of Europe, a world warped with ideological conflict during the cold war and political and economical pressures of the late 60's and 70's which had previously shattered complacency about stability and progress in the democratic world, now fai...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School

Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. ... Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... Another important factor which this essay will discuss is that of the influence of the West on the Eastern bloc. The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School

During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. ... Property rights was a new concept to most Chinese during the economic revolutio...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ethnic and nationalist questions plagued the Soviet Union and continue to stress the Russia Federation during its nascent period. ... But in typical Yeltsin contradictory manner, the war in Chechnya has demonstrated the worst of the Yeltsin regime. ... The war was connected more with the struggle for power in Moscow than with either economic or ethnic factors. ... Lilia Shevtsova considers the Chechnyan war a byproduct of the Yeltsin regime's reliance on personal politics. ... These include questions of international recognition, Russian implemented economic pressures, and deva...

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The debates on the amendment of the Constitution which have been going on for slightly over one year now seem to turn in favor of having these two elections at separate dates, stance backed by both civil society and parties across the Romanian political stage. ... A few days ago during a meeting with the Romanian Diaspora on the Black Sea coast, the Romanian prime-minister Nastase even referred to the Status-Act" as a model to be used in drafting a corresponding Romanian regulation. The various disagreements between Romania and the EU, brought about last year by the signing of the treaty wit...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are several key factors that play an important role in the argument such as Marxism, the class system, and the effects of these on Tom Joad. ... The title originally came from this song, which was written during the Civil War in 1861 when Julia and her husband became part of the U.S. sanitary commission. They inspected the conditions in the Prisoner of War camps, including Union Camps. ... Take the Civil War for example. ... The people who are starving have to watch this happen and cannot do anything about it. ...

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His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. ... His life contributed to the way people think today, and because of him people are more open to suggestion and are quicker to create ideas on political issues. ... During this time, Karl kept close correspondence with Jenny. ... Finally, in capitalist society people are alienated from each other; that is, in a competitive society people are set against other people. ... During this period, he continued to work on his book, The German Ideology. ...

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Christiana Lodder confirms in Art of the Soviets this revolutionary step in including art as a major collation within the government when she explains "Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda [is] immensely important because for the first time art was directly harnessed to the service of the state and its ideology" (16). ... His plan embraced the arts and drew up concrete foundational concepts to propagandize new communist ideology and implement it into the hearts and minds of the people. ... A utopian future lay ahead of the people for Russian and for this moment in history a vision of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... While possessing the aura of a great leader during the 1970's, Mao's character has, to some extent, been reinterpreted that he is now depicted as a decadent mass murderer. ... Seriously underestimating the fanaticism and potential influence of the Red Guards (supported by the People's Liberation Army (PLA)), Mao unleashed them against his own system, expecting to shake out the bourgeois...

• Word Count: 4647
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate