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). ... They were all under state ownership, and they just kept piling people in. 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. ... This book truly does portray life of ordinary people in ...

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When I read the book to the end of second chapter, I found that it was not an ordinary book. ... That event was a sign that show the great propaganda power on people today. TV can always convince the people and affect their minds. ... The only difference between these two is that with telescreen the party watched the people but with TV the other people watch the famous people. ... The low class consisted of proles, which are ordinary people and work like slaves. ...

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The use of blending by the Viet Cong was so effective that there are even stories of people seeing dead Viet Cong soldiers that they new as every day villagers... Guerrilla warfare in many ways is more tactical than ordinary warfare. ...

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The release of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debat...

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From this, congress the rehabilitation process of the repressed people from the 1930's to the 1950's, had began and later had become massive and widespread. Millions of people were acquitted and returned from the camps. ... They were people who accepted the fight to the cult of personality as the beginning of social regeneration. ... They had to explain to ordinary communists why they glorified Stalin before, but now they began to accuse him of all "deadly sins." ... For many people, it was clear that the death of the Hungarians and the Soviet people during the suppression of t...

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The Russians sought to do the same to the people of Czechloslovakia in order to make them forget who they were. ... And so the political situation has brutally illuminated the ordinary metaphysical problem of forgetting that we face all the time, every day, without paying any attention. ... Kundera speaks of the thawing of the totalarian way of life enacted by the people of Prague to right the wrong set in motion by themselves. ... She cannot recall which one of the many rulers of the Czechloslovakian people she sang her patriotic song for. ... Such is the dilemma of not only the people of Cze...

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It discourages people to work hard. ... They committed genocide on their own people and there have been masses of murders. ... Democratic socialism states that the means of production should be in the hands of the ordinary working people. ... Socialism is for the people, free but grounded....

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Yet did Life change much for the ordinary working society? ... This led to a decline in food production as there was no motivation for farmers to work harder. 10 million people died of starvation as a result. ... The Chinese leadership, and most prominently Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yun, and Chu Teh ("father" of the People's Liberation Army), consolidated power quickly and moved to gain the confidence of the Chinese population, particularly by solving the economic problems that had worsened during the civil war: the civil war had generated low levels of gross domestic out...

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Most of the people loved Chairman Mao and the revolution. ... The ordinary citizens constantly lived in fear of the Red Guard. ... Questions like these were not out of the ordinary, and most of the people held in this sort of situations were either railroaded, or flat out tortured into confessing. ... All around people shooting, people dieing. ... The Red Guard affected a lot of aspects of people's lives. ...

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According to Lenin, the ordinary citizens do not understand their own interest; they are incapable of making the correct choices that will lead toward to communism. ... The party based its claim on the representation of historical best interests of all the peoples. ... The constitution describes the political system as a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship. ... Party leaders at all level supposed to remain close relationship with people in order to propagate their unsystematic ideas to the people as the correct ideas. ... National People's Congress: NPC is the...

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Communism was the idea of the government by the people and helping the people. ... Although the system did have several defects, there was still hope to improvise and reform the government to meet the needs of the people. ... People felt as if the co-operatives just took advantage of the scarcity. In fact the people felt that the co-operatives increased the scarcity even more. ... This perpetuated the high prices and gave ordinary people fear of what a full-scale market reform would mean for their futures, and at this point the economy seemed as though it was near a collapse. ...

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A democratic system would allow citizens to choose representatives that would voice the thoughts of people, and with the economic reforms. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. The majority may not please the losing faction of a certain issue, however the attention would be diverted onto the people who elected the official(s). ... The people of China may want democratic reform, however the CCP is able to appease to the people in a way that gi...

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Most people in today's society identify politicians with liars or crooks "men unconnected with ordinary life, masters of manipulative language. George Orwell shares this opinion, especially with reference to totalitarian dictators. Orwell identifies many flaws in the English language as it is spoke...

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Many people also chose not to vote: the initial enemy to the Liberal state, Catholicism, divided the country. ... The only way to keep the people happy and under control was by these methods, concluded governments. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... The people and the Government were aiming for both of these respectively as I will show. ... He tried to convince Nationalists by declaring, and winning, a war on Libya in 1911, but many ordinary Italians disagreed with the war. ...

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The question is, how did Stalin motivate people to industrialize at such a frightening pace and not complain about the conditions, the disappearing people and the terror? ... Gulags were concentration camps, built and designed to exterminate people. ... He condemned all people in them as traitors to the State and to Russia, people working against communism and therefore against the survival of the Russian people. ... Stalin's reasons for exterminating people who had previously been his friends, people who mostly supporting his ideas, are unclear. ... But these trials were not ordinary tri...

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Communism, at its most idealistic base, is a contingent of gown up responsible people that have free access to information and can therefore self govern, except for the transitional period required for the establishment of the required infrastructure. ... Fight hunger, not people."" ...

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Again, an essential political thinker: Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 believed that democracy "is an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote- (capitalism, Socialism and democracy p269). ... There are many complex factors that aided the collapse of communism and the fight for democracy, some being: The enormous influence of Mikhail Gorbachev, the never-ending economic stand-still leaving people desperate for food, warmth and shelter, conflicts within the Soviet bloc i...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries fade...

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