Ho Chi Minh, according to many Vietnamese during the time and still to this day, was considered one of the greatest leaders the Vietnamese ever had. ... Ho then re-established contact with the ICP leaders, and later helped found the Viet Minh group which was based both on nationalist and communist principles. ... Ho Chi Minh then declared independence for Vietnam, and acted as the country's leader. ... Although he took certain aspects from both ideologies in his movement, the two ideologies do not necessarily naturally follow the other. ... Although the fight for U.S. independence from Br...

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Totalitarian Governments use the people in a total movement to achieve a goal. ... Russia was falling way behind the rest of the world, and with the death of Lenin they were looking for a new leader. The single party system made it easy for a totalitarian style leader to take hold of the reigns of power. ... The socialist movement was in full effect, and factory workers and peasant were taking over factories. ... Their dictators all came into power legally and used the support of the lower classes as a basis for takeover and movement towards a common goal. ...

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Laudable and Heroic Mussolini Benito Mussolini over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism to the leadership of a new political movement called fascism. During many years, Italy was faced with false, disloyal leaders, and Mussolini came and augmented Italy and became the spokesman of a nation betrayed by its leaders, who could only make Italy dependent on Germany and Austria . "He was the leader who succeeded where his mentors had so lamentably failed" , Mussolini was far more involved in the process of governing and accomplishing the Italian Nationalist dream than many of the Italia...

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Communist Party leaders still believe in public ownership, and they worry that further privatization will spell the end of the party's monopoly on power. ... For many Chinese leaders, these problems are simply possible outcomes of normal market functioning. ... The ultimate question for China's leaders is whether or not this notion of a market-socialist system will withstand China's troubled times. ... The leaders of the movement are young, but they are groping towards an independent workers movement, one step of which will have to be the setting up of a genuine party of the w...

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There are various ways in which single-party leaders of the past have managed to strengthen their power, but what is tantamount is the strengthening of their power domestically, which has proven to be the most vital item on the agendas of two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. These two men, leaders of fascist Nazi Germany and Communist China respectively, both sought to make sure that within the borders of their nations, every citizen followed their rule. ... Once in power, any single-party leader must find means to quiet down the op...

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After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Stalin gained control of the party. ... Stalin was one of the most ruthless world leaders. ... They wondered how this movement, which had promised to put all people on equal footing, could have become twisted into the dismal state it was in by the late 1930s. ... Orwell's message is that any society which has leaders with absolute power such as Stalin, is doomed to failure due to such corrupt and selfish leaders manipulating power for their own personal benefit....

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Lenin thought no revolutionary movement could take place or have lasting power "without a stable organization of leaders maintaining continuity". According to Lenin, the more people that are drawn into the struggle and start a movement the greater the need for a strong organization to back them up. ... This would also make it easier for more people from the working class and other classes to join and participate in the movement. ...

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Snowball was the most sympathetic animal that could be leader of the animal farm. ... A new leader was needed, however both Trotsky and Stalin accepted the responsibility. ... Furthermore, Trotsky truly believed in the communist movement, even after Lenin's death, he continued Lenin's legacy with Stalin to make life better for the people. ... The same thing happened to Trotsky; he was busy implementing ideas to help the communist movement while Stalin was making friends in high places to help him take over and run Trotsky out of the country. ...

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While there he began developing a Marxist underground movement. ... On the night before its publication he and other leaders were arrested. ... Traits of a Leader Lenin showed many characteristics of a good leader, making him ultimately a better leader than his successors, where downplayed by Americans due to propaganda from the government teacher socialism bad, capitalism good, which isn't the case, but not what is being explained. ... Adding to that he was a very charismatic speaker, a true trait of a leader. ...

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Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so different from those that had been established in the USSR under Stalin. ... Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. ... The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during Tito's visit to the USSR in June 1956, le...

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Their leader Napoleon raves on about making the farm a fair and comfortable place, yet he's gradually turned the farm into a dystopian society. ... Later on in the novel leader napoleon does the one act to differentiate him from the animals and the humans, he walks on his hind legs. ... Eco-socialism talks about the anti-globalization movement and peacefully taking down capitalism. ...

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Intending to integrate political economy into the general movement of science, Veblen discussed the evolution of the scientific point of view, the place of science within the framework of civilization, and the function of evolution within political economy. ... Also, he was considered the capitalist unfit to achieve technical progress, and he advocated recruitment of industrial leaders from the classes of workers. ...

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Social mobility is defined as movement among and between classes. ... Standard of living- good economic times leads to low votes and bad economic times lead to more votes because they try to get the leader out of office. ...

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The Bolsheviks, which had been formed due to a split of the Social Democratic Labor party in 1903, found new popularity, mainly due to its leader, Vladimir Lenin. ... He became the leader the party needed, and set about gaining support for his ideas from peasants and factory workers abroad. ... In an attempt to gain momentum for Lenin's movement, Trotsky convinced Lenin to name the revolution in favor of the soviets. ...

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We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...

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The Narodniki resented the new Marxist movement and became bitterly hostile towards them. ... He became leader of a collection of scattered groups entitled the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate