RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. ... Published in the AkhRR Exhibition of Studies, Sketches, Drawings, and Graphics from the Life and Customs of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a cohesive feeling of the avant-garde can be concede when it stated: The Great October Revolution has aroused the conscience of the masses and the artist Our civic duty before mankind is to set down, artistically the revolutionar...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. ... 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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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. ... 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. ... Through the smokescreen of industrialisation Stalin was able to change the communist party to his advantage, removing Trotsky and the leftists from history whilst glorifying himself as the saviou...

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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. ... Marxism was known as the scientific socialism or better known as Communism which stated that human h...

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This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. Along with a transformation of Russian civilization came the remodeling of the Russian citizen, a new archetype with particular qualities that became idealized for all Soviet citizens. ... Gladkov provides Gleb with excellent credentials of an ideal Soviet citizen, such as his history as a factory worker, and his experience as a soldier in the army. ... Gladkov continues to explore the emotional aspect of his characters by pointing out the history they shar...

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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. ... This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were ...

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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. ... This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were ...

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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. ... This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were ...

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Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. ... In 1836, Karl transferred to Berlin, where his interests turned to the study of jurisprudence; and mainly, history and philosophy. ... This pattern, says Hegal, is clearly evident in human history. ... His goal was to help the proletariat bring about a socialist revolution by studying the factors governing the process of history. ... [In it Marx developed his materialist conception of history, a theory of history in which human activity, rather than thought, plays the crucial role (Spa...

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-Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. ... This seemed to be a trend for many aspects of Russian history. ... The subject is also advantageous as at several points the Sino-Soviet histories overlap. ... 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 degradation seen on the revisionist path taken by Soviet Russia. ...

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Examples of this can be seen in our schools history of teaching. ... It is this hysteria which would find itself repeated several decades later in history when Senator Joseph R. ... There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This ...

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Karl Marx is one of the most controversial economists in history. ... Marx's association to communism was established due to the fact that numerous socialist dictators, such as Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, studied Marx passionately; however it is erroneous to assume that Marx was a proponent of communism. ... During the 16th and 17th centuries England experienced a turning point in its economic history. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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