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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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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The Winnipeg General Strike has been one of the most intensively studied episodes in Canadian History. ... 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. ... By portraying it as nothing ...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. ... The theories of Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, among other thinkers would be identified as a sometimes distorted echo throughout history. ... Let history answer this question". ...

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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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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. ... During this time he also completed several more works: Nation, State, and Economy: Contribution to the Politics and History of Our Time (1919), Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (1920), Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1922), Stabilization of the Monetary Unit, from the Viewpoint of Theory (1923). ...

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