Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. ... Although Stalin died in 1953, Moscow's control over Hungary and Eastern Europe did not weaken. ... The Soviets permitted the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980's and early 1990's. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: High School

He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of...

• Word Count: 746
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by th...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Deng's move to a market economy, " was one of the most powerful demonstrations of the bankruptcy of the command economies that at the time still prevailed in the Soviet Union and most of Eastern Europe."5 China had removed the burdensome yoke of Mao's communist ideology from its economy, but its autocratic government was far from democratized. ... As Tatsumi Okabe says, "The radical democrats focused primarily on the group interests of the intellectuals, and the neo-authoritarian regarded the uneducated masses as unready for democracy."8 With relatively no middle class emerging i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, over the years Nigerians have developed a number of important components of successful democracy namely the fourth Republic which includes a diverse and vigorous media, an educated and often critical elite, outspoken human rights organizations, a growing middle class and a respected legal profession and judiciary. ... Thus when the narrow suffrage of a competitive oligarchy has been extended to the middle class and minority groups, the number of party leaders and members of parliament drawn from the middle class and minorities has increased, thus establishing inclusiveness and competi...

• Word Count: 2103
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Moreover China was very curious about its population which in the middle of 21 century will reach 1.5 billion of people. ... Processes of globalization and regionalization intensified spreading of relations across the borders in eastern and central Europe. ... If immigration policy of Russia towards Siberia wouldn't be changed, 10 millions of Chinese people will migrate till the middle of the 21 century. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This is where people would be aided, on the basis of social needs. The final goal, Communism is based on a class-less society that will be profitable for the vast majority. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

13 years since the downfall of communism, Romania is faced with yet another question, that of whether or not the country has undergone a socializa-tion process comparable to the other former Eastern bloc states. ... Thus, in October 2002, the Hungarian president Ferenc Madl was the first Hungarian head of state to be visiting Romania after the breakdown of the communist Eastern bloc. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the institution was put into place for all children, only the rich, upper middle class citizens could afford to send their children to school without reprisal from their labor obligations in the family workplace. ... While all this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former Socialist strongholds which were all along the eastern seaboard of the US. ...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurrection and protracted revolutionary warfare. The independence movements were likewise diverse. They were not all communist, although communists actively involved themselves in most of the "wars of liberation", forming blocs within other movements where they did not have the strength to stand alone. S...

• Word Count: 4606
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: Undergraduate