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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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 would have meant that he appealed to the surfs throughout Russia. ... He was a good orator, organised, and worked for the benefit of Russia. ... This meant that he had influence other the minorities, of which there were many throughout Russia. Kamenev's let downs were that he had been opposed to the April Thesis, he wanted a socialist coalition government, and he had had heated debates with Lenin. ... He had a good relationship with the Russian people, which was boosted by him leading them out of the July days. ...

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The Russians thought of Karl Marx, who worked coperatively with Friedrich Engels, as the founding father of dialectical materialism. ... By creating another being in contrast to himself, man hurt himself by feeling that they are evil and they need both church and government for guidance. ...

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Rousseau's concept that government contribution could be justified was neglected throughout liberalism's early years of existence. ... Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? ... Jefferson and his victorious Republicans believed that government should be as weak and decentralized as possible. ... Legitimate rule was stressed in the principal that once a government bec...

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