Unfortunately, in China, the citizens are not promised "constitutional democracy, freedom, and human rights," (Jian 1). ... Professors gave seminars on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution. ... "The CCP claim that China has no need for constitutional democracy, and is much better off following its own 'exceptional' path of political dictatorship" (Jian 1). ... (Jian 1-5). ... Jian notes that although there is a small amount of people fighting against the Chinese Communist Party, they are China's "greatest hope....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrote a secret note warning that Stalin must be removed as general secretary. ... The leading Bolsheviks finally learned of the secret note warning against Stalin, but they ignored it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance and stability on the European continent. ... A certain amount of responsibility for rocked the confrontation between the USSR and the United States lies with Britain, France and Germany, was jealous of her new role in international affairs and are seeking ...

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Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, represents earlier interpretations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. ... Thermidor suggests that a period of time follows any revolution in which the revolutionary spirit wanes, and the threat of revisionism reaches its peak, as seen in the "Thermidor" reactionary phase of the French revolution, the Russian Revolution and in the Cromwellian revolution of C17 England. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate