Beijing Consensus: The Beginning Of The 20th Century

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Beijing Consensus
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Europe found itself at the crossroads; socially, the Europe still had its feet in a medieval class dominated society, while technologically it was becoming the wonder of the world. The previous century was a witness to unprecedented, and never seen before transformation, the once agrarian European society altered itself into industrial culture.
The social injustice and exploitation caused by the uprooted lives, in the end was misused by a group of radical revolutionaries known under different names in different countries; Marxists, Bolsheviks, Communists, and Socialists.
The 1917 Russian Revolution, put on the map a totally new creation; the Soviet Union, which claimed to have a solution

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