With the spawn of the industrial revolution in the 19th century came a new sense of economic competition. ... Russia's ability to imitate ideas from western influence led them through their industrial revolution. Following the thoughts of the Minister of Finance, Count Witte, many western investors built factories with advanced technology in Russia. The Russian people using this technology greatly advanced their ways of production. ... Marxist ideas created a majority party called the Bolsheviks whose mindset was on the middle-class revolution. ...

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In many revolutions, there is a circle of events that starts right after a revolution and ends with the society ready to rebel again. Animal Farm is a book that was based on the Russian Revolution, and this paper is intended to answer the question, "Does Animal Farm represent the cycle of events that many revolutions exhibit?" ... Sometimes the government will be able to stop the revolution, but in Animal Farm as with many other revolutions, they could not. ... This is clearly evident in the Russian Revolution and also in Animal Farm. In the Russian Revolution, Stalin went so far as to cut...

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The Cuban Revolution was an extremely influential event in Latin America, if not the world itself. ... Rampant poverty was a problem that Castro's revolution intended to solve. ... (Guillermoprieto, 83), while they did not meet the same success as Castro's revolutions, many young people staged Communist revolutions in their own countries. ... Cuba proved to be of vital strategic importance, as its conversion to Communism caused the US's influence over the island to transferred to Russia. ... While sugar has remained a decent industry; however, as there is almost no country witho...

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Railroads and Steamships The second Industrial Revolution was also a transportation revolution. ... The Revolution Spreads Up until 1850, Britain was the only country to have industrialized signifacntly. ... Russia Russia was the slowest major European nation to industrialize, due to its autocratic government and the fact that the majority of its people were serfs tied to the land. ... The Industrial Revolution changed the perception of middle class women. ... Scientific Ideas The Industrial Revolution managed to catalyze dramatic advances in scientific knowledge. ...

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Historians argue if the American Revolution was democratic in nature. ... Early in his introduction to The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood observes the differences between the American and other nations revolutions in terms of the conditions that existed and the objectives of the revolutionaries. I believe that Wood was interested in the uniqueness of the American Revolution.  ... " Wood is contrasting his analysis of history with that of what he calls the "Progressive" and "neo-Progressive" historians who traditionally view the American Revolution throug...

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Not only did he change the name but also Chavez immediately converted the Venezuelan Government and society into what he calls the Bolivarian Revolution. ... Even though, the Bolivarian revolution is mainly geared towards domestic policies, there is substantial foreign policy aspect. ... Although I am discussing the Bolivarian Revolution, I thought some background information on the type of person Hugo Chavez is, might help to understand this revolution better. ... Along with fixing the OPEC, he put a large amount of time into building relations with Russia and China. ... The Bolivarian Revolu...

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These included World War One, the Russian Revolution, the Yugoslavian war, the Arab/Israeli Wars and the Gulf War. ... The Russian Revolution however, was a perfect example of how people will take advantage of the collapsing of an Empire. There were many economic problems occurring in Russia, as well the mistreatment of the peasant class. ... For example, the Russian Revolution began because the peasants were being unjustly treated. ...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World...

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The Russians had attempted to expand the territorial zone from 550 to 510 North latitude on the America North West coast and ban all non-Russian ships from coming with 100 Italian miles of their territorial zone. ... Moreover after the violence of the Napoleonic wars and French Revolution the US saw sought to defend itself from European entanglement. ... In the negotiations with Russia; John Quincy Adams was willing to compromise on territory but he was not willing to compromise on the right to trade, a clear indication of his priorities. ... However this should not be over estimated, their re...

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How "Revolutionary" was the American Revolution? ... The revolution had begun. ... But does it necessarily hold true that this proves that the American Revolution was indeed a "Revolution" and should be touted as such? If we look at the case of the both the French and the Russian Revolutions, in these instances it was the poorer people of the nation rising against its elite class that defined the revolutionary action. ... The fact that the events prior to the American Revolution suggested a call for change by the American people, and that indeed huge changes were seen as the Colonies...

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An example of this would be the Russian revolution where the country was run by a monarchy. ... This war cost many lives and the majority of the population of Russia did not want to be in this war. Since the monarchy did not leave this war, the people of Russia started a revolution. The revolution ended in the deaths of the entire monarchy in Russia and started a communist country known as the Soviet Union. ... Even after the people of Russia removed an absolute authority for making decisions against what they felt as right, they ironically create a new absolute authority. ...

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The decisions taken by the great powers of Europe; namely Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia and also the vanquished France, during the Congress of Vienna in 1815, were ultimately instrumental in the forging of the new Europe and in the peace, which followed the Napoleonic era. ... Poland, Saxony and the Rhineland were given to Prussia from Russia and Austria was given territory in Eastern Europe and Italy. ... National ambitions had been put to one side for the upkeep of an all round defence against the French The continuous expansion of Prussia throughout t...

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Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Also the Russian government was seeking revenge on the United States because the United States did not enter the war effort soon enough and that caused for more Russian casualties. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. ... The United States didn't want to risk the lives of their young men, just as the Russians didn't. The Russians directly blamed the United States for their 30 million casualties in WWII. ...

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The Chinese have so many problems similar to those of Russia. ... Also, similarly to Russia the army controls the parties. ... There needs to be a revolution in China. ... The people do not think about revolution, one because they are afraid, and two because they don't have anyone to lead them into battle so to speak. ...

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"The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." ... The Berlin Airlift saw U.S. and Royal Airlift planes bring supplies to Berliners, breaking the Russian blockade. This was an attempt to make Russia less powerful by making Germany stronger. ... This was the first military treaty between the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. ...

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Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the successful formation of a Communist or Socialist state in Russia. The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ...

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The roots of the Syrian revolution lie in the torture of the students who by declaring anti-government statements, rebelled against the Assad regime. ... State actors such as the United States who support opposition groups and Russia who aids the Syrian government. ... Russia, along with China has faced a considerable amount of criticism by Western states for this. ... Russia's pro-Assad regime behavior is due to Syria being their last military alliance. Most importantly Russia's economic interests influence the behavior to a greater extent. ...

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The Revolution presents a wide range of issues having to do with the nature, causation, mechanisms, and extent of historical change. ... Before the revolution, he invested in the Ohio country seeking a financial benefit for his own speculative interest. ... Most of all, the American Revolution was a conservative one. Unlike other great upheavals, the French, Russian, and Iranian Revolutions, the American Revolution was not comprised of the normal ingredients. The goals of the revolution had already been satisfied before it began. ...

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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Germany had invaded Russia twice this century and should not be allowed to recover. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolsh...

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Wilson was aided in his desire to arm merchant ships by one contingent factor, the February Revolution in Russia. This revolution overthrew the Russian autocracy and promised democratic reforms. This meant that the Allied cause could now be seen as totally democratic and therefore in agreement with America's own views this improved Russian relations with the U.S. ...

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Immigrants came for many reasons, but the Industrial Revolution caused America to look very attractive to people down on their luck. ... The factories needed the foreigners to push the revolution; the natives didn't want to leave their nice house and farm to go work for next to nothing. ... The Russians made a good living off of growing wheat until Great Britain started making food, including wheat, in Australia. The need for Russian wheat didn't exist anymore, so many came to America for jobs. ... Romanov Russia, one example of an autocracy, had a society in which most people fa...

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A child of the American Revolution, John Quincy Adams was the first President of American History whose father, John Adams, also served a term as President of the United States of America. ... It was at nine years of age that JQA experienced, first hand, the American Revolution. ... It was within the first year of the war that it has been said that JQA learned of the harsh realities of growing up into a man, and later recalls in life feeling responsible "as the eldest son "for protecting his mother while his father attended to the business of revolution (The American Preside...

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After George Washington led colonial troops to victory in the American Revolution and was elected president he set up many precedents that had long lasting effects. ... Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution, "out of what was little more than an armed mob" (Web1). ... The United States had allied themselves with France after France was helped the colonists in the Revolution. ... The French were extremely unhappy with his decision because of their efforts in aiding the United States in the American Revolution. ... Th...

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Even though Russia and the U.S. had tension for many years, Russia is now backing the United States in Operation Iraqi Freedom even though during events leading up to the war with Iraq, Russia did not back the U.S. ... The Cold War between Russia and the U.S. had many causes. ... The separation of Germany also polarized America and Russia. ... In the 1950's, another issue polarized America and Russia. ... Feldman, stated that "The actual K-19 lies in a Russian ship graveyard, ...

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Social Darwinism in the United States in the late nineteenth century seems to have been the logical path for social theorists after the industrial revolution. The country had just experienced an industrial revolution and business was booming. Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ... A large proponent of mutual aid Peter Kropotkin a Russian zoologist summed it up best when he said that "animals which acquire the habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest" Oscar McCulloch, a reverend in Indiana, called m...

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