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...

• Word Count: 5589
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. ... The One Big Union had been inspired by the Russian Revolution and with a solid socialist leadership was quickly able to claim the majority of the western Canadian and Northern Ontario labor movement within its ranks. ... When the Bolshevik's victory in Russia was complete these complaints grew more common. ... The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an un...

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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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For the next few years he began working for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, which was an official advisory agency of the Austrian government, taught a senior economics class at the Viennese Commercial Academy for Girls, and completed compulsory military service by serving a four week period of duty a year for 3 years. ... He was a captain with the artillery in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry located on the Eastern front in the Carpathian Mountains, Russian Ukraine, and Crimea. ... Here he wrote economic analyses of proposed government actions. ... In the most consistent versions of socialism...

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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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• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate