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    Before, social classes began to emerge and forms of capitol were created, communal living had been a fixture of society since the hunter-gathering days. This practice, now referred to as Communism, is an, “economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.” The most modern attempts at creating a Communist state come from a theory called Marxism. This theory, published in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’…

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    Chiang and his followers were force to flee the mainland the Peoples Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949 was formed with Beijing as its capital. The communist rule of Losif Stalin in 1928 through 1953, strengthen the rule of Russian dominance, of the Soviet Union which cost the lives of millions of people as well in the creation of the countries foundation.…

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    in the film, Battle of Algiers, the Algerian War of Independence impacted the lives of every day citizens in Algeria, because of the bombings and mass shootings executed by the FLN. While the conflict did not originally have Cold War implications, soviet bloc nations were the first to recognize the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, and this contributed to Algeria adapting socialist policies. In 1962, French President Charles La Gaulle signed the Évian Accords and granted Algerian…

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    Canada’s experience as an international relative has been a brief and recent development compared to many other countries. Due to the heroic efforts done in part by Canadian soldiers in World War One, Canada was gifted the statue of Westminster. This gift signaled the end of British primacy to our foreign policy, and crafted Canada’s foreign strategy that has been known around the world for many decades. Canada’s role in World War two to help aid in the fight of Nazism and Fascism played a…

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    WWII it played a big role in defeating the axis power. Without America’s involvement the results would have been drastically different. Post WWII America became one of the most influential countries of the time and got into a power struggle with the Soviet Union. This struggle would be known as the Cold War. The Cold War changed a lot of attitudes and put the world on edge. At home the country had its own power struggles between race and the threat of…

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    In 1917, Russia pulled out of World War I due to an uprising in the motherland. The events that followed were termed the Russian Revolution. It led to the end of a 300-year-old imperial government and the creation of the first communist nation. Despite the fact that the Russian Revolution is called a single event, it was in fact first, a revolution, then, a coup. The first revolution was really a street riot over food scarcity gone out of control. Pressure from the people and Duma, the…

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    On June 12, 1987, former President Ronald Reagan gave one of his famous speeches, “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate.” On a superficial level, Reagan uses the speech to petition to the Soviet Union for peace, nuclear and chemical arms reduction, and the demolition of the Berlin Wall. He also highlights the progress and prosperity that have arisen in the western world since the division between communism and democracy was established. Beyond the surface, Reagan subtly disparages communism while…

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    The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto claims that communism is a specter haunting Europe. This specter, however, was lively, not only in global history, but in literature. As communism took root in Russia and continued into Eastern Europe, allusions to communism became more present in literary works, not only from intellectuals in those areas, but Western intellectuals as well. Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish intellectual, claims that this increase in communist nations is a natural…

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    Within decades the Soviet slowly started to fall, with Regan we saw the massive military buildup, basically outspend your enemy. Focusing mostly on the allocation of resources and economic managing sections of the fall. Soviet Union agriculture was not entirely horrible, on theory it made sense. A whole collective, farm that unifies smaller plots of land, to one has a whole. This allows the use of a tractor to be used effectively, while in the contrary to the US farmer that used the capital…

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    non-Russian population to support Lenin and the Bolsheviks. After Lenins death, Stalin took over the Soviet army and feared that there were enemies in his own country. He took action in imprisoning and executing millions of “enemies of the Soviet Union.” During the same time, World War 2 was just starting up. Stalin was able to avoid World War 2 by signing a pact with Adolf Hitler that granted the Soviet Union two years of safety. After seeing the Dictatorship that Adolf Hitler ran in Germany,…

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