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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Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ... Stalin edited briefly the new party newspaper, Pravda (Truth) and at Lenin's erge wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. ... Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party decisions. ... Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 19...

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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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Rotation moved officials between party and state bureaucracies and between national and local posts. ... In one month in 1987 over the course of one month he dismissed eighteen ministers from the Council of Ministers and approximately one third of the legislative body that was established by the Constitution to administer all national and local agencies . ... He even hired thirty of his relatives in the party and state apparatus . ... From her position as chief of the Party and State Cadres Commission, she was able to dictate organizational and personnel changes throughout the party and the g...

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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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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of countries is at the foreground of debate, some countries possess weapons of mass destruction a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the most notorious of which are the USA and the Soviet Union. These two countries became the s...

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By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. ... Despite typical differences between parties; there was nonetheless general agreement on the main...

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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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Introduction The USSR was around for 69 years. During which time it's citizens went through tremendous heartaches. Millions died as a result of political purges, horrible labor systems, and state-created famines (U.S., 1998). The USSR had a command economy, which means all aspects of ...

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The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ... The third would be to turn to Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba, and inform him of the danger his country was in by siding with the Soviet Union. ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." introduction T...

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Question: Discuss the evolution of the international protection regime and explain the rationales that underlay the decision to amend the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees reflected in the elimination of the temporal and geographical limitations. Abstract The root causes of the refugee crisis have been the incidence of the two world wars of the 1914 to 1919 and 1939 to 1945. The responses to these huge humanitarian explosions have been the consequent formation of international refugee protection regime. The first of the attempt at initiated by the League of ...

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