Within the treaty‚ Soviet Union gave a loan of $300 million to the PCR as they suffered economic problems due a decade of intense warfare. This treaty meant that two of the strongest communist states had joined forces‚ which only made the spread of communism more likely – something that the United States wanted to avoid. The Korean War 1950-1953 United States administered the southern zone of Korea‚ whilst the Soviets administered the northern zone. On June 25 1950‚ North Korean forces crossed the 38th
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during the 1920s became known as the Red Scare. Marxism‚ created by philosopher Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ is an economic system that criticizes capitalism. Many often think of Marxism as a type of socialism. Marxism is the foundation that communism is built on which says that one should live in a “socialist‚ classless society” (Marxism). Marx and Engels wrote a book entitle “The Communist Manifesto‚” which encourages the working class to overthrow the upper class. He makes a point of saying
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to eradicate all traces of communism from the earth (or at least America). Right away‚ he went after Hollywood‚ black-listing anyone involved in the entertainment industry whom he thought might be linked with communists. The following year‚ he released a list to the public with the names of 154 organizations he believed to have communist affiliations. This initially gained him support from the citizens‚ as 110 of those organizations did have some form of link to communism. McCarthy managed to drum
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authority but more importantly‚ democratizing and rationalizing the governments of these nations‚ forcing them to represent the needs of the people‚ as opposed to the needs of the Nobles and the papal elite. He lastly addresses the idea that modern communism was rooted in the ideology of the French revolution; he quickly puts this out by explaining that there are no direct parallels between
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In “The Killing Fields”‚ totalitarian rule is demonstrated countless times throughout the course of the movie. Totalitarian rule is a type of dictatorship where usually one person rules the state and strives to control every aspect of his or her citizen’s private and public life. The type of government that uses totalitarian rule is a dictatorship because totalitarian rulers take power by force and there is a single lone person in charge. Totalitarian leaders maintain their power by strong propaganda
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A totalitarian state‚ is a where the central government of a state does not tolerate any parties with opposing views and exercises complete dictatorial rule over all or most aspects of life. Lenin‚ the leader of the Bolsheviks‚ took many measures in an attempt to create a totalitarian state‚ including the dissolution of Constituent Assembly‚ the use of decrees and the establishment of a secret police group called the Cheka. However there were also some ways in which he failed to achieve full totalitarianism
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Cold War started was the conflict between the ideas of Capitalism and Communism. The Cold War started‚ after the end of World War 2. The conflict of ideology between Russia and America was at an all-time high. Russia ideology was to spread Communism‚ whereas America ideology was to spread Capitalism. With Communism‚ everybody would be
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Animalism is allegory to Marxism and Communism. Animalism had seven commandments in it‚ and number 7 was “All animals are equal” (Orwell 21). The farm animals are trying to create an equal society‚ which is also a communistic society. Old Major states‚ that “‘among us animals let there be perfect unity‚ perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades’” (Orwell 7). This quote from Old Major shows how he is trying to push for communism. Old Major represents Marxist/ Leninist
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Anti communism was the centrepiece of us foreign policy from 1941 but by the 1970s it was less important‚ and indochina was also. By 1954 the us was paying 80% of the costs of the french war against the vite communsits. it saw communism as a global monolith‚ the vietnamese not as nationalists but as tools of the sino-soviet bloc. Vietnam was not important in itself but a place to ’draw the line’‚ after china had been lost‚ otherwise like dominoes all seasia would go communist‚ and japan would turn
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Why did Lenin adapt Marx Stage Theory? There are many reasons why Lenin adapted Marx stage theory. A vital motive was that Lenin longed for the communism foreshadowed in the Marx stage theory. However‚ in 1917 Russia was an underdeveloped country that had barely left feudalism. Therefore‚ in order to adopt the idyllic communist society‚ Russia would still have to drag through two Marxist stages (capitalism and socialism)‚ which could potentially take centuries. After living in a feudalist society
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