Through coercive tactics this new government seized power and in 1917 Lenin came to power. ... Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Czarist military system and established institutions in government. ... Lenin died in 1924, and was quickly followed by Joseph Stalin as head of the Soviet Communist Party, the oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. ... The economic status of the Soviet Union was yet again changed and the entire system became controlled by the government...

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Wall Street icons like Lehman Bros, toppled and required government bailouts. ... It is possible to have democratic societies that emphasize a mix of collectivism and individualism and it is also possible to have totalitarian societies that are not collectivist. ... The government decides things without the knowledge of the population, even though they claim it to be a democracy. ... American government is intolerant with corruption acts, and when it is discovered the fines are too high. The United States has a heavy historical of government actions transparency. ...

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The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Soviet calendar), the Bolsheviks seized power in a relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution ...

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In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the...

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Democracy is mostly seen by Western scholars as, in the words of Winston Churchill, "the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" (Churchill, 1947). ... First off, McFaul argues that within a semi-autocratic regime there is a better chance of a democratic transition than in a totalitarian regime. ... As the streets of Kiev filled with protesters, the government knew they had to promise changes to restore order. ...

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A certain role in the development of the situation in this area has played and the position occupied by formally independent (from the USSR), the governments of Eastern European countries. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood prevailed in government circles of America B. ... The rapid rise of the national economy contributed monolithic totalitarian system, its ability to concentrate its limited resources on specific areas of the economy. ...

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