During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. ... The Chinese urban middle class is broken down into five sections: party and state cadres, business managers, private entrepreneurs, professionals, and office staff (Li, 70). ... What makes ...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. 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. ... The debates on the amendment of the Constitution which have been going on for sli...

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Thirdly, that the democratic state of the country should remain stable and not fluctuate from one axis to another. ... Lipset and Rokkan's theory of absence of strong social cleavages, which in turn, non post-communist parties have no organisational basis for support. With the creation of so many new parties, it also gives way to extreme fragmentation e.g. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... Furthermore, the addition of commitment to help fund the emergence of new political parties. ...

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He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stal...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... The N.E.P had created a large amount of friction within the party at all levels and this was beginning to cause problems for the USSR. ... It is true that the plans bought huge amounts of glory to Stalin as well as securing his ultimate power within the party, but this glory was justified by the revitalising effects of industrialisation on the soviet people and the communist ...

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These political reforms eventually led to the liberalization in the Soviet Union thus limiting the far-reaching role of the communist party. ... Meanwhile, countries in Asia, especially the four tigers were industrializing rapidly as other third world countries like Bangladesh continued to face economic crises. ... The West's focus on market economies and privatization ultimately influenced other third world countries to abandon their communist and socialist systems and adopt new methods. ... When both the principal and agent have common goals, progress is easy but if both parties...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurre...

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We should also note that two speakers who are bilingual, that is, who have access to two codes, and who for one reason or another shift back and forth between the two languages as they converse are actually using a third code, one which draws on those two languages. ... Communism, socialism, Communist Party, capitalism and many other political terms may also serve as good examples. ...

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Karl Marx Karl Marx was the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and to fail due to the creation of the middl...

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The third and final work of this trilogy, Capital, Volume III, was published posthumously in 1894, and it takes over where the previous two volumes left off (Schmidt, 2014). ... One of the main takeaways from many people about this volume is the third part, entitled "The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall", which alludes to the potential fact that when there is a rise in production, then profit often falls, which in turn can make labor cheap and further the chasm between classes in society (Marx, 1965). ...

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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. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avan...

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Capitalism in England England's goal was to supply two-thirds of the glove with cotton: spun, dyed, and woven, in the industrial centers of Northern England. ... Communism is a system of government, where the state plans and controls the economy and in authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order that all goods are equally shared by the people - overthrow capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat. ...

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