The processes of industrialization, furthermore, should not interfere as Lenin claims it will be a social clerisy that would infiltrate the working class with class-consciousness, which therefore, would prevent a spontaneous proletariat revolt to unfold against the exploiting classes. Not only was the revolution un-Marxist in character, as David Christian discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control of Russia – the Military Revolutionary Committee led by Trotsky. ... The issuing of the decrees on Peace, Land and Workers con...

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The people must be given more control of state production. ... The rise and fall of markets, and the rapid transfer of wealth around the globe, creates an inherently unstable environment in which people are expected to function. " capital is in the process of destabilizing it's own revolution," (Grieder 229), says William Grieder. ... Essentially, government must turn complete control of production over to the public. ... Generally, Hobson feels that moving towards socialism would be steps in the right direction, and is possibly the best course of action in light of the fact that it would...

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The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. ... Chunlong Lu's research found that "The Communist government has directly or indirectly controlled virtually the entire process of local people's congress elections: from the nomination of candidates, electorate deliberation, to the determination of final candidates on the ballot "(Halpern, 1991: 38; Burns, 1999: 591). ... Li argues for the CCP persevering in China due to two important features: State-led economic process, in which the state has ownership of all ...

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Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... Or should they keep delaying the reform process, thus making sure that the PSD gets reelected? 13 years since the downfall of communism, Romania is faced with yet another question, that of whether or not the country has undergone a socializa-tion process comparable to the other former Eastern bloc states. ... Or do Romanians put up with the corruption, excessive red-...

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It would then appear that steps taken so far in the advancement of environmental protection previously existed, and had been preempted by the Communist Manifesto, and are more clearly depicted in the Preamble to Agenda 21: "This process marks the beginning of a new global partnership for sustainable development."" ... Through the Agrarian Reform Laws (1959, 1963), land was distributed to more than 200,000 peasant families, and 70% of the Latifundio lands (large estates) passed into state control. ...

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It was generally perceived that only absolute state control such as that proposed by Stalin's five year plans would manage these resources well enough to achieve the industrialisation wanted by many communists. ... As Lenin had made clear, the N.E.P was a step backwards so that we can make two steps forward' and in 1928 these two step forwards were becoming too distant to the soviet people. ...

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