I am going to point out how the concept of state' is actually the basis of neo-realism, according to which the existence of the state is a necessary condition for any international stage. ... This is the most effective metaphor that neo-realism provides to explain its own essence: states are like billiard balls, not only because they constantly clash, but more because - assumed to be solid - the domestic configuration gives no information about their behaviour in the inter-state system (J. ... As mentioned above, according to neo-realism, International Relations never change: purpose, m...

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However, the interest of the reader in the contents of a book is sometimes affected by the realism with which the plot is introduced. ... The use of realistic characters allows the reader to believe in whatever outcome realism will cause. ... The references to real military hardware allowed the reader to experience the action by imagining existing machines doing all the action and adding to the realism...

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Assignment The developments initiated by Stalin between 1928 and 1940 all had the effect of increasing the role of the state in Soviet society. Discuss. Response In order to assess how Stalin attained and upheld complete power in the 1930's it is necessary to examine the factors which led his driv...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. This was in his pamphlet "The Tax in Kind" (1921). In this pamphlet he described it as follows: " a peculiar war communism was forced on us by extreme want, ruin and war it was not, and could not be, a policy that corresponded to the economic tasks of the proletariat." (Malle 1985) In early 1918 Lenin was faced with two main problems. Firstly feeding the workers in the face of severe grain shortages and secondly keeping the workers in the cities to manufacture arms and essential supplies. ...

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Obviously there are many aspects that influence film and its development. The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contem...

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