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    The Communist Threat

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    The Communist Threat Communism‚ like all forms of government was designed to benefit the people of the country. Originally communism was established to create economic stability by abolishing private property‚ if your property was sought to be public‚ it would be used as a greater benefit to the economy. There were people that believed in the idea of communism—those who thought that the key to a successful economy was by total government control. Time passed and political power became the greater

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    The Failure Of Communism

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    Soviet Union. However‚ there were some key differences between Marx`s version of communism and the kind implemented in the Soviet Union and other states during the twentieth century. Marx dreamt of Utopia and it can be argued that the communist states of the past century have not lived up to expectations. Due to this‚ the political deviations and ideologies of such states have been the subject of intense debate. The strain of communism promoted by Karl Marx and his colleague Frederick Engels became known

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    The causes of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were that it had no popular support‚ political downfall‚ and economic problems. The fact that the USSR had gained all of its money from the Eastern European states (after world war 2)‚ Stalin’s paranoia of the West forced him to put all that money into defensive arms and therefore none of that money was being channeled into the country. Many historians would argue that it was at this point that the USSR began its downward spiral and this is

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    The Impact of Communism

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    The Impact of Communism The government in the 1940’s used communism as the reason to spend lots of money and instill a sense of constant fear in American’s. In one of the opening lines of the “Atomic Cafe” Harry S. Truman was stating that the military had already spent 2 billion dollars “on the greatest scientific gamble in history”. There was an abundance of media that was being televised and published that showed communism as an extreme and controlled society that was led by one evil

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    Communism in Malaya

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    Communism in Malaysia Communism as an ideology was first introduced to Malaya by Chinese anarchists‚ and not by Kuomintang Left‚ Indonesian communists or Chinese communists as claimed in existing scholarship. A handful of Chinese anarchists arrived in British Malaya during the First World War to take up positions as Chinese vernacular school teachers or journalists. These Chinese intellectuals harboured not only anarchism but also communism‚ commonly known then as anarchy-communism. The withdrawal

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    Communism In Poland

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    Communism is designed to bring people together‚ but history shows what Communism has done to Europe and how it still affects the world today. The Lenin Shipyards in Poland is the best example of how Communism destroys the working class. The Lenin Shipyards were controlled by Lenin‚ a Communist leader that came into power after WW1. Although Communism further divided the wealthy aristocrats from the working class citizens‚ it increased the bond between lower class citizens‚ who fought for what’s right

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    Fall of Communism

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    How can we explain the sudden collapse of Communism in Europe? Communism was a very popular ideology which was in great favor during the inter-war period but in the 1980s‚ there was an unanticipated demise of Communism. So how can we explain the sudden collapse of communism in Europe? I would argue that there were several forces converging to the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe. Factors such as the high expenses of engaging in nuclear arms‚ the lost of their satellite states‚ the growing

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    Communism In Cuba

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    ↦How successful were the USA’s attempts to contain Communism in Cuba‚ 1959-1961? Until 1959 Cuba was an American ally‚ ruled by Fulgencio Batista. Although he was a dictator‚ he was heavily backed up by Americans which was important as most of the businesses were owned by Americans. However‚ in January of 1959‚ Batista was overthrown by Castro‚ the leader of guerrilla‚ in a revolution. He was strongly socialist‚ and started reforms on Cuba by distributing land between peasants‚ called the Agrarian

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    by the concepts of both communism and totalitarianism. Despite my strongly held (and what some would call radical) views on politics‚ welfare and firearm ownership I was reluctant to choose this topic. However‚ after much procrastination and apparently futile mind mapping I decided to continue with it. Once I had decided to persist with the topic‚ a hypothesis transpired quickly. “Under the right conditions and the wrong leader there is substantial evidence that Australia could have and can still

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    Communism in Poland

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    COMMUNISM IN POLAND ! ! By the end of the Second World War a Communist regime had taken power with the help of the Soviet Union. Poland was a satellite state of the U.S.S.R‚ and were ruled by a one-party Communist regime‚ since the takeover during the Cold War (1945). The Cold War was a brief time of tension between the Untied Sates of America (U.S.A) and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R). Without actual combat‚ the war lasted from 1945 to 1991. The U.S.S.R was trying to gain total power and

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