In the Weimar Republic moderate parties such as the Liberals and Conservatives failed to introduce new policies, which lead to extremist parties winning over the peoples vote. ... Similar discontent towards the Japanese government grew with riots occurring as well as the popularity of the Communist party growing. ... Many third-world exports of raw materials were hard hit. ... One third of Japan's export earnings came from the silk industry. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn ...

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The Bolsheviks became the majority party in most of the Soviets by October 2. ... Stalin was successful in establishing his dictatorship in the party, as well as in the country. Exhibit 12.4 Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin then inaugurated an era of Five-Year plans in order to convert the weak, agrarian Russian economy into a powerful and stable industrial economy. ... Thus the First Five-Year Plan in 1928, the Second Five-Year Plan in 1933, and the Third Five-Year Plan in 1938, helped Stalin to realize his objectives completely. ...

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.- sponsored program to secure nuclear components in the former Soviet Union has locked up a third of an estimated 600 tons of weapons-usable material. (5) In this case the material was left behind, poorly secured, when the Soviet Union collapsed. ... The mutual deterrence that existed during the cold war, because instead of two parties fighting for the world you now have numerous parties trying to defend their own interests inside of their own area. ...

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On the third of April 1917, with Lenin's return to Russia, he announced a republic for Soviet of Workers, Poor Peasants and Peasants" Deputies, and his "April Theses" - his plans for the future. ... His push for the revolution to take place in October 1917, with scepticism from other members in the party given the disastrous July Days, was proven to be a correct decision; as the Provisional government crumbled under the threat and the Bolsheviks took power. ... The eventual signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk led to Russia surrendering more than one third of her population (62 million)...

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Lenin changed the course of Russia by ensuring that his party would resort to dictatorship rather than bow to the will of the masses. ... The population was divided into three estates, with the majority belonging to the third. ... Lenin, the father of communism, believed it the job of his party to exercise control of society. ...

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To do this Gorbachev "closed down two-thirds of all liquor stores, cut the hours of those that remained, reduced the production of alcoholic beverages, and increased the fine for public drunkenness tenfold," not only leaving many of the citizens angered but increasing the number of underground stills producing toxic brew. ... He was a leader who "possessed the vision to see further and wider than any other Soviet party leader and had the courage to try new policies, despite the opposition" (401). ...

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This is not an apocalyptic scenario, on the contrary is the very time we are living nowadays, for Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" the secondary point or question I am about to ask and answer myself in this paper is that if we are ready to make the same mistakes and if Einstein was right saying that we don't know with what will the Third World War be fought with, but the Fourth World War will be fought with sticks and stones." ... But as we can see there are some opposing parties in the alliance already in form of Germany and France the ...

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Their defeat had a detrimental effect on the morale of the Soviet people as the mighty Red Army had been defeated by one of a third world nation. ... Within days of becoming party leader Gorbachev announced plans to restructure the economy. ...

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Japan's Foreign Policy Upon focusing on Japan and it's foreign policy objectives, one must take into account the world and the image that Japan is trying to project upon it, for both it's self and the Japanese people. Japan is trying to adapt after the Cold War and the aftermath of two World W...

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