Economic nationalism is a protective defense against the Russian federal government's economic dominance. ... Tatarstan, for example, strives to sell its oil at world market prices in foreign markets to generate income, and in 1993-94, the local governments in Tatarstan and Yakutia sought economic decentralization in Russia by refusing to pay federal taxes. Consequently, an agreement reached between the federal government and the republics gave the latter what they wanted: increased economic autonomy (Drobizheva). ... The government's misguided attempt to rest its reform...

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Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. ... Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. ... Their culture would now officially be based upon and secured by implications of the newly formed government. ... Implementing Lenin's plan, the Russian avant-garde began to draw plans to decorate all major cities in Russia. ... IZO was Responsible for organizing the country's artistic ideology under the new Soviet Governmen...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. ... It is reported that in his last years his ability to speak Russian deteriorated and he spoke only Georgian. The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded wh...

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The government put in place legislation, not only against the Wobblies, but also against Socialists and Communists, due to the fact that the government did not distinguish one of its enemies from another. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." Words such as "advocating" and the vague language used in the law allowed the government to use deportation as a cure for the anti-government views of its enemies, namely the Wobblies, C...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the f...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany i...

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Some people called it paranoia, Stalin's obvious fear of being "left behind" or defeated because of Russia's backwardness, other's called it prophecy, that Stalin could predict Russia's fate. ... He believed Germany would invade soon and Russia would be ill equipped to defend itself. ... But without the successes of the five year plans, where would Russia have been? ... 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. ... He felt insecure; people were questionin...

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Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. ... The Baron taught the boy the basics of government, religion, and philosophy. ... A civilization evolves somewhere and rises to new heights of government, learning, and art. ... The article criticized the government and consequently, upon its publication, the Prussian authorities banned The Rhenish Gazette in January 1843. ... His old mentor, Bruno Bauer, the Russian anarchist, Michael Bakunin and the radical son of a wealthy German industrialist, Friedrich Engels was among the contribu...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. ... Governments should promote free trade and not interfere by protecting certain industries from competition. Smith says the governments only duty was to provide services such as the building of roads and schools that could not be lucrative. ... In these constitutional governments, only those who posse a certain capital are voters. ... Communism is a system of government, where the state plans and controls the economy and in authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a...

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This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. ... This seemed to be a trend for many aspects of Russian history. ... So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordination to the Chinese government in his writings for the South China Morning Post. ... MacFarquhar asserts that the Cultural Revolution was a struggle to maintain the spirit of Chinese Socialism, and to avoid, what Mao had interpreted as the ...

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In addition to this it will state the collapse of communism and why thee countries have chosen a democratic' government rather than an authoritarian government etc. ... Although there are different definitions about what it is to be democratic, there are still obvious criteria that democracy has, and an authoritarian government does not, which enables us to discuss the transitions from authoritarian government to democratic rule without being over concerned with dense political ideology. ... It was not so long ago when the mention of an autocratic government, one automatically assume...

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A certain role in the development of the situation in this area has played and the position occupied by formally independent (from the USSR), the governments of Eastern European countries. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood prevailed in government circles of America B. ...

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