This then led to the Dutch welcoming the methods of the Prussians and Russians, rather than following French rule. By doing this, Napoleon would fail as being seen as a liberator following the arrival of Prussian and Russian rule in 1813. ... After defeating the Austrians in 1792, France were seen as potential liberators from the perspective of people in Belgium. ... In order to gain troops, Napoleon made vague promises of potential independence for Poland away from Austria, Prussia and Russia. Independence was something the Polish people had been seeking for years, so it was clear that the Po...

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However, after almost 14 years, the hope of democracy in Russia has flown. ... By testing Russia to the conditions mentioned by McFaul, we can better understand on which factors Russia falls short. ... Fourth, it is crucial that the opposition has the ability to mobilize large groups of people. ... With better informed citizens, it is possible that these people will join the protests. ... Each condition will be tested by looking closely at the situation in Russia. ...

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The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. ... The authorities did not even give as a pretext for the invasion the defense of Russian-speaking people. Such a pretext would have been unbelievable, in light of the fact that Russian- speaking people suffered from the bombing of Grozny at least as much as the native population. ... The Road to a Market Economy At the heart of the difficulties plaguing the Russian Federation are the economic reforms that the Yeltsin regime has imposed upon the Russian people. ...

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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. ... The principle of socialism was that of a party of the proletariat or the working classes and in 1928 Russia did not have a very large proletariat because most people worked in agriculture. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a r...

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This structure was somewhat outdated in the modern world which was experiencing a social revolution. ... The threat of nuclear was came from the rise of Communism in the 1917 October Russian Revolution when Lenin led the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. ... They had participated in Latin Mass since they began worshipping God through liturgy and could not come to terms with the change that was taking place. ... " This change came about due to the dropping of congregation numbers as the post-war period of social revolution meant that people did not want to be told who they could and couldn&#x...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. ... This was followed, in January of 1935, by the arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev themselves, along with a number of their allies; they would be tried in secret, accused of having "inspired" Kirov's assassination, and given long jail terms. ...

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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. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants...

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Even liberal powers like Britain and the mother of Revolution, France did not dare to take the risk of a war which may be caused if Italy was united and this might invite foreign intervention in the young Italy. ... His optimism was his main weakness because he thought that Italians, illiterate and divided could carry out the revolution from, that is, to achieve liberty before independence. ... In conclusion the question before Italy was foreign rule on independence, unity in federation, political change from above or social and economic revolution from below. ... In revolution of 1848 frustra...

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The reason why I chose these two people - especially Emma Goldman - is to be found in the extraordinary impression their lives had on me. ... Another important thing to mention is the fact that as a Jew, she was born into a religious environment that was very concerned about social equality, but on the other hand lived in the Russian society, which viewed Jews as a second-class people. ... Although many Jews condemned the assassins who had been associated with the Russian socialist movement, Emma soon developed a strong sympathy for them. The harrassment of many innocent people, which follo...

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ROLES OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND JAPAN IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN THE NORTHEAST ASIA The relation between the Russian Far East and Japan is 'near and far'. ... Although a tense atmosphere remains in the Korean Peninsula, people's comings and goings and cultural exchange between Japan and Russia have remarkably increased since then. ... I The Russian Far East Russia is usually regarded as a European country, but it is at the same time an Asian and Pacific country. ... As Niigata prefecture where I live has an area of 12,500 square meters and population of 2 million ...

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Most people, especially those who lived under his reign, would have explained him in negative terms. People close to him were either loyal to him, or pretended to be for their own good. ... Russia might have preferred it as well. ... In 1917 Koba returned to Petrograd what was the capital of Russia at the time, to join his comrades after the unrest of the February Revolution. ... After the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, Nadya became Stalin's personal assistant. ...

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The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. ... Its usage is often inaccurate, overlapping with other terms like alternative, guerilla or radical theatre. ... In the twentieth century the peaks of activity in the industrialized world coincided with two periods of social and political upheaval, the first and major one triggered by the Russian Revolution...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... The distinction between power over people and power over territory is a useful one to make, for it singles out two aspects of sovereignty that are best addressed separately: disputes involving...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... The distinction between power over people and power over territory is a useful one to make, for it singles out two aspects of sovereignty that are best addressed separately: disputes involving...

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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. ... Sumner's essay on the concentration of wealth shows his political economist side with a few technical terms of Darwin thrown in the mix. ... Mutual aid seemed to do something that no other theory has been able to do before, include Ame...

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The French revolution was the beginning of the end to the Monarchy and absolute rule. The revolution came about for a number of reasons. ... What is considered by many historians to be the turning point in the revolutions is the storming of the Bastille. ... Although the Assembly wanted all people to be equal before the law, they quickly defined their terms. ... At the outset of the revolution, Napoleon returned to Corsica in September of 1789 and organized the National Guard. ...

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While the Chinese people themselves may have little understanding of where their society is heading, they understand its context. ... Foreign concessions were ended, and, with the important exception of the Russians, British Hong Kong 香港 and Portuguese Macau 澳門, foreign influences were expelled. ...

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Hitler believed that the history of mankind was really only a struggle for space among peoples, and that the strong survived by gaining the necessary living space from which they could continue to grow numerically, and in terms of racial quality. ... On July 27, 1920, in line with his racial dogma Hitler stated: "An alliance between Russia and Germany can only come into existence if the Jews are removed from power." ... Despite the enmity of the war Hitler said on December 10, 1919: "As a people the Englishman has reason to be proud." Though he had only a year earlier been fighting...

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By 1979, however, Saddam Hussein had clawed his way to the top of the ruling junta of Iraq and took advantage of the chaos unleashed by the recent Iranian Revolution to shift the disputed border back in Iraq's favor, with the excuse being that the predominantly Arab population of this region would prefer being part of the predominantly Arab state of Iraq. ... Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. ... The Iraqi leadership became more of an issue after the Iranian revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had spent part of h...

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Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and more of a bystander at the mercy of his underlings. ... The army was then to seize control of Tokyo with a display of unification for the revolution. ...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. ... The USSR then claimed that helping South Korea was illegal because the USSR and the People's Republic of China were not present during the voting. ... There was much skepticism that Rhee would actually abide by the terms of the armistice even after it was signed. ...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. ... The USSR then claimed that helping South Korea was illegal because the USSR and the People's Republic of China were not present during the voting. ... There was much skepticism that Rhee would actually abide by the terms of the armistice even after it was signed. ...

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Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stopping Panama's attempt to break away. (In 1921, the U.S. paid an indemnity to Colombia in recognition of the U.S. role in the Panamanian revolution). ... Years later, President Roosevelt said that the ...

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Since the industrial revolution in England almost a century earlier, Eastern Europe had essentially been an economic colony of the West (Western Europe and the United States). ... Poland was unquestionably of the greatest concern to the Soviets, as it had been used as a launching pad for the invasion of Russia during both World Wars. ... This resulted in 25,000,000 citizens being deprived of shelter during the harsh Russian winter. ... The Russian population was left starving, as an immense amount of damage was done to the Soviet Unions agricultural capabilities: 98,000 collective farms and 2,...

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According to this reality and the stated requisites for democracy, the Arab Spring revolutions lacked the basis for democracy in the first place. ... The fall of longtime leaders, and the peoples rising demands for a stronger voice in their own governance, have brought new opportunities for civil rights reform. ... On political and economic reform, it remains to be seen what the nature of the democratic political systems that emerge following the Arab Spring revolutions will be. ... The jumbled view that political reform and openness will immediately result `n a better economic life could le...

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