Another control mechanism perfected by Ceausescu was "rotation", a policy applied after 1971 to strengthen his personal power at the expense of political institutions . ... He believed that machine building, and petrochemical industries, where the most important industries that Romania had to focus . ... The government was afraid that the intelligentsia would ask for more rights in the country and therefore the government decided to lower their participation in politics. ...

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Environmental problems are to be considered as a world problem, as opposed to national problems, for pollution affects the whole world indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. This is perhaps the most problematic aspect of this issue, for the solution depends on the coordination and cooperation of all major governments, regardless of political differences. ... This quote best addresses the problem of international cooperation, for if the problem of pollution has no political boundary, the solution against pollution should be independent of nationality. ...

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The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. ... He controlled to bulk of all the political power and with that he started a ruthless campaign of removing all opposition to the Communist rule. ... Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. ... Krushchev's denouncing of Stalin's policies was criticized and slowly some of Stalin's political disciplinary policies were restored. ... This called for major long term change of the political system. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. ... The international prestige of the United States and the Soviet Union, extraordinarily increased by the end of the war as a result of the huge separation from other countries in the military, economic and political fields, contributed to strengthening of the international situation and the formation of a bipolar system of international relations. ... A certain amount of responsibility for rocked the confrontation between the USSR and...

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To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... People were treated like machines, with none of their basic human needs attended to. ...

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In one of the first monographs on the Russian avant-garde, Camilla Gray published The Russian Experience in Art in 1967 in which she explains "The Revolution gave reality to their activity and a long sought direction to their energies-for there was no question in their minds of not identifying their revolutionary discoveries in the artistic field with this economic and political revolution" (219). ... In the months immediately following the Russian Revolution of 1917, "reigning political powers elevated a cultural avant-garde to a level never since attained by modernism" (Barron and Tuchman ...

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This proved that he was politically able, and in good standing to be a possibility for Lenin's replacement. ... Other political advantages that Kamenev had were that he had been the Moscow party secretary, and the commissar of foreign trade. ... Politically speaking he was well placed to replace Lenin because in 1919 he was made chairman of the cominturn, and became a full member of the Politburo in 1921. ...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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