The Albanian Communist party was founded in November 1941 and Enver Hoxha, a young Western-educated schoolteacher, was elected its General Secretary. But prior to 1941 there was no Communist Party in Albania. ... By presenting themselves, as the communist party and as the state security apparatus, they controlled, as the vigilant defenders, the "country's independence-. ... Now there were no other political parties in Albania's political life. ... Despite this, we did our best to reach the masses; we did our best to escape from this regime to make the impossible to live a normal lif...

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Many East Germans risked death attempting to cross the defences surrounding the wall to reach freedom in West Berlin, and many were killed in the attempt. ... Early elections held in June 1997 led to the victory of a socialist-led coalition of parties, which remains in power today. ... Fears that the shift of power from centralized one-party system system to multi-party democracy might turn into bloody revolution proved unfounded owing to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of peacefully-minded reformists committed to a peaceful solution, while the ...

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And still, what are the qualities that Gorbachev had, as a child originating from a peasant family, that distinguished him and helped him reach the top? ... 6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group called "Movement for Socialist Renewal" which includes party and government officials of senior rank, has claimed itself as the authentic voice of the Soviet elite. ... The demise of the Soviet Union portrayed as a revol...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 of these, 450 went to prison. ... His Palmer raids had two main targets, which were the Communist Party, and the Communist Labor Party. ... This break up hurt the Socialist party. Many who were not Socialists opposed the draft, but the party was the point of opposition. ... While all this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the remains of the Socialist Party. ...

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When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the verge of witnessing a great class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. ... Though every modern edition of the Manifesto carries the names of Marx and Engels, the text that reached London in time for the second congress of the Communist League was written by Karl Marx alone(Wheen 119). ... The Manifest of the Communist Party may be the most widely read political pamphlet in human history, bu...

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Under the rule of Lenin, there could be only one party, which was the Communist, to run the government. Opposition parties were all eliminated. ... Lenin made himself the dictator and the Communist parties held the total power. ... Both sides reached compromise. ... He was the head of the Soviet Communist party and the Russian Government in 1929. ...

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Lenin and his party took control of Petrograd block by block using the MRC under the command of Trotsky. ... From February to the revolution Lenin managed to raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. ... In the April Theses of 1917 he drafted a strategy for the party to seize power. ... Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik party would not have been able to cling to power during 1920 and 1921. ... There were differences, but Stalin had reached Lenin's impasse of 1921. ...

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During this time many of the political parties that had been working underground finally came to the surface, the main contenders were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. ... Although the wages of the Russian people had increased the price of food and clothes had increased as well, beyond the reach of the average working class Russian, this was in the city only though. ... Lenin led the Bolshevik party, the party's ideology came from Lenin. ... The Bolsheviks were also flexible to certain extent, this was shown when Lenin created the NEP, many of the Bolsheviks believed this would spell do...

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Such dependence turned Chinese geopolitical direction to the Atlanticism until communist victory over Kuomintang (Chinese nationalist party) in 1949. ... Moreover China was very curious about its population which in the middle of 21 century will reach 1.5 billion of people. ... Capital flows between China Hong Kong and Taiwan reached the amount of 650 billion. ... New essence of Chinese geopolitics was created during XVII Congress of the Communist party. ... In addition, XVII Congress of Chinese communist party blames negatively any proclamations of the Taiwan independence. ...

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Compromises were reached concerning the extent of the King's power and also the relationship between church and state (Church of England). ... It caused an increase in opposition, namely in factions and parties. Before this time parties, "to almost every political writer of the early eighteenth century, were indisputably evil." But by mid century parties were seen to be necessary for a free state, as long as those parties were directed not at private/personal gains, but at the needs of the public. With these new views on parties grew new more liberated views and open expression of oppos...

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The Bolsheviks eventually defeated the White Army and became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of this new party and was viewed by many as a tyrant who would significantly influence future Russian political parties. ... Using the arts to exemplify the new conditions under the policies was an aesthetic way to easily reach out to the proletarian Russians. ...

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Ammunition supplies had run out, many soldiers lacked shoes and sufficient clothing; adequate food supplies had cease reaching the front, but to the soldiers it seemed that the leaders callously ignored the losses of lives. ... Leaders of the Communist party made education a chief goal. ... Since the 1917 revolution Russia had grown into a well -rounded country in reaching this goal, The Russian Government controls virtually the entire economy now; placing heavy emphasis on development of manufacturing industries and the increase of farm output. ...

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The Age of McCarthyism, by Ellen Schrecker, discusses the Cold War policies to find American Communists and examines the rather complex nature of the fear and subsequent action towards Communism and espionage as it becomes "McCarthyism". Ellen Schrecker discusses the political history in the early ...

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And some 57 cases of people who fall into the category of card - carrying Communists, loyalist of the Communist Party, or risks to the nation (Divine, 265). ... The spying reached its peak when in 1967 it was ordered by president Lyndon Johnson's administration officials for the Army to spy on civilians who were involved in the antiwar, anti poverty, and civil rights movements (Feuerlicht, 152). ...

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Marxism and Economic Theory Human relationships have always been dynamic. Change and adaptability have gone hand in hand with the passage of time for human society. Systems have been developed to regulate, direct and control the resources of this society. The systems are referred t...

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Society starts out at its most basic form, and develops continually until it reaches it's perfect form, which assumes that eventually there will be no more development because everything will be perfect. ... In 1848 he wrote The Manifesto of the Communist Party. ...

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