After the revolution of 1917 and the change in the regime, life for ordinary Russians took a very different course. ... Enemies of the party lead a life even worse than ordinary citizens, as they would possibly lost their jobs, be arrested, or exited (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 22). ... While this was the case for ordinary citizens, those of elite party status were often given spacious apartments and access to quality goods, while the masses received the leftovers. ... I had no trouble following the book, and words that I was unfamiliar with were either explained or the meaning was evident in conte...

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The economic, as well as many others, context of northern landscapes is suitable for creating what Higson refers to as Moral realism. "This we can name as moral realism, in that it involves a moral commitment to a set of particular set of social problems and solutions inevitably, the claim for moral realism is in part bound up with the claim for surface realism- there is a moral thrust to iconographic commitment to the representation of "ordinary people"" (Higson, 1996, Pg136). The North is as I have mentioned before the established center of the "ordinary man" in Britain and as such this i...

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The concept of populism refers to the political activities or political ideas that are based on the interests and opinions of ordinary people. ... If we take this definition at face value we can easily maintain that whenever a political leader steps up to make his/her appeal to the people, to which there is an overwhelming agreement from the people with regards to the context of that appeal, then the politician in question can be seen as a populist. This is regardless of the context of the appeal or the political background and organisation structure of the person appealing. ...

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