Russia, during the turn of the 20th century, experienced a great surge of political movements whose aim was to change the existing form of government. ... Then the proletariat would be mature and ready to overthrow the bourgeoisie and institute the purest form of government: communism. ... Ragsdale, in The Russian Tragedy, asks, "What does the doctrine of Marxism have to do with Russia?... As Ragsdale states, "Russia in the nineteenth century or Russia in 1917 did not fit plausibly into any historical period described by Marx."" ... Lenin was essentially replacing one authoritarian form of g...

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This quote from Karl Max is an introduction to his philosophy of government and economics. ... His theories on economics and government have had immense effects on the world. ... In the early years of the twentieth century, Russia was ready for the ideas of Marx. ... By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution of Communism. ... Not long afterward, Communist Russia was attacked by Britain, America and France, who wanted to get rid of the communist government. ...

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Such private enterprises can only thrive where government policies promote the idea of a free market so as to tap into the markets beyond a country's border (Dicken). ... So as to be more competitive, governments have embraced innovation in production and distribution of its home products. ... The second change was the formation of a truly global capitalist economy influenced by the rise of Asian economies (Japan, Korea, India and China) and re-emergence of market economies in Eastern Europe and Russia after 1989. The final was the synchronized promotion of competition and openness by the...

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The next major cause of the Revolution was England's government policies. ... Communism is a system in which there is a classless society- without any government. ... Communism rained over the world in countries such as Russia which at the time was the Soviet Union and countries like China. ... The citizens knew the government was going to take action to fix this, and so they people had hope. These reforms changed the course of England's history and how the government was perceive by it's citizens and how the government should protect the rights of it's people. ...

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"The materialistic view of history" led Marx to believe that the government was only a "political ruling organ of the economic rulers." Government could never act as a third party between the two classes. The upper class was always going to control government and therefore have control over the lower class (Heilbroner1 161). ... But the reason capitalism fell in countries like Russia, Germany, and Italy was because of its instability and social conflicts of Marx's era. ... The government took on the responsibility to protect and improve the market through such means as anti-trus...

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Most dictionary definitions define anarchism as the absence of government. ... Anarchism fully blossomed as a defined theory when Russian anarchists Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) and Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) started to write and speak. ... "The state (i.e. governments, armies, courts, police, etc.) is a direct result of the fact that we live in a class society. ...

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