This paper can either be a historiographical paper (centering on an issue in the secondary literature) or an analysis of a primary source (say, a memoir); in either case, you are free to choose a topic of interest to you (although you need to clear the topic with me). ... Note that neither list is exhaustive: these are a handful of possible topics (to give you some ideas and to give you a sense of the sort of topics I'm looking for, but you're welcome to propose a topic of your own. 1. ... The rape of German women by the Red Army in the conquest of Berlin NOTE: If past incarnation...

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Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic novels of Victor Hugo to the works of Charles Jean Marie Letourneau who was a Frenchman who attempted to analyze all of the world's history through the lens of his own radical political ideas. ... Stalin used the observatory to hold secret meetings and as a hide away for the forbiden marxist literature. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrote a secret note warning that Stalin must be removed as general secret...

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What is paramount to note is that a stable democracy must adequately address what Ken Jowitt calls the "developmental trinity-: nation-building; capitalism and democracy. ... There will be a deeper examination into the economic issues facing the Federation as a whole in the next section, but note that these concerns are magnified in the peripheral areas that lack developed agricultural and industrial economies. ...

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In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. ... The poem "Comrade Napoleon" along with the "Seven Commandments" indicate the vital role religion and literature can play as ideological state apparatuses in disciplining the masses. ...

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As a result of Lenin's Plan, historians can note a revolutionary idea, prophesized through Marxism ideology, conceded and carried out. ... Known as the 'Concerning Monuments of the Republic' Lenin signed on April 12, 1918, 'The Removal of Monuments Erected in Honor of the Tsars and their Servants and the Production of Projects for Monuments to the Russian Socialist Revolution', in which former monuments of Tsarist Russian would torn down and replaced with "outstanding persons in the field of revolutionary and social activity, philosophy, literature, science and art" ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ...

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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 basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. 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 a...

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