It began with the collapse of the centuries-old czarist regime in February that led to the overthrow of the Western-style Provisional Government and the establishment of the first national communist political system in October. ... The member of the block strove valiantly to convince the government that it must follow the example of western government to accept the voluntary cooperation of the public in coping with the inordinately difficult problems. ... Ammunition supplies had run out, many soldiers lacked shoes and sufficient clothing; adequate food supplies had cease reaching the front, bu...

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From 1921 to 1924 there was cooperation with capitalism and the united front, a pragmatist decision due to enlightenment of the reality of the situation. ... The aim was to stop the formation of a united capitalist front against Communism "Our foreign policy while we are alone and while the capitalist world is strong consists in our exploiting contradictions" (Lenin). ... Bukhariam opposed the assault on the peasantry and sympathized with western communists who claimed that more flexible tactics were needed if the aim of a united front was to occur. ... " The popular front was ...

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One factor of paramount importance was the fact that Marx's audience was the highly civilized and developed Western Europe. ... The proletariat in most western European countries consisted of a majority of the population, whereas, the proletariat in Russia was a minority of the population and the peasantry was the majority. ... In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. ... Marxism in its purest form was a recipe for revolution in the w...

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The Albanian Communist party was founded in November 1941 and Enver Hoxha, a young Western-educated schoolteacher, was elected its General Secretary. ... And now that the power was centralized in their hands, the communist elite co-opted or terrorized the entire Albanian population into blind obedience, herding them into obligatory front organizations, bombarding them with propaganda, and disciplining them with a police leviathan untrammeled by anything resembling to the legal, ethical, religious, or political norms. ... The only two political organizations that existed in that time, "Balli ...

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At first glance, May 68 appears to have spontaneously begun with student protests, and then accidentally turned into a political crisis that not only paralyzed the nation but almost overthrew the de Gaulle government.1968 was a year of social revolt that saw the culmination of student protests throughout the western society. ... In a very brief time, three times more workers were on strike in France than during the Popular Front in 1936 (Ross 4). ... The historian Eric Hobsbawn takes a more cautious view, describing the events of May 1968 as `neither an end nor a beginning, but only a s...

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The relationship between liberal democracy and capitalism has formed a successful dyad which western nations have thrived on. ... In this sense a capitalist economy not only supports the values of a liberal democracy but it also helps to extend them on a global front. ...

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