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    Since the days of Peter the Great‚ the Russian Orthodox Church was directed by a religious governing body known as the Holy Synod. Representatives of the Holy Synod were appointed by the tsar; however‚ Tsar Nicholas II ruled terribly that the Orthodox leaders encouraged the revolution. For years‚ the Russian Orthodox Church had a continuous relationship with the tsars and opposition to the liberals. The Bolsheviks were persistent in their antagonism toward religion‚ with their atheist ideals‚ they

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    Civil war saw Lenin’s failed War Communism policy and saw the rise of the New Economic Policy (NEP) that reignited agriculture and factories once more. It has been made clear that the outbreak of the 1917 February revolution‚ was the result of Tsarist Russia failing to meet the needs of the Russian people. Tsar Nicholas II‚ the leader of Russia from 1868-1918‚ was an autocratic ruler who had no intention on improving the lives of peasants or workers‚ and instead ruled the country how he thought

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    of Nicholas II in bringing about the downfall of the Romanov Dynasty in March 1917. Undeniably‚ Nicholas II had an enormous role in bringing about the downfall of the Romanov Dynasty in March 1917. Whilst many historians argue the fall of the Tsarist regime to be the direct response and product of World War I‚ it is quite evident that it was Nicholas’ inefficient and fatal autocratic ruling which led to the March Revolution of 1917. The effects of Russia’s involvement in numerous wars only heightened

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    Christina Rossetti’s poem the " Goblin Market"‚ takes on a unique internal approach that is aimed at showcasing the exotic. The use of the exotic acts as an important medium which is used to portray the many principles that are put forth and applied‚ that create problematic action. Specifically the exotic is shown to cause temptation‚ as well as the ability to gain momentum to pursue the pleasures of the flesh. Specifically the image of the fruit is something that is idealized‚ and used to show

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    The idea that individuality against the majority creates repression for the individual is very prevalent in our society‚ and has been for centuries. By evidence from several sources such as Anderson‚ Murrow and Starnes‚ it is encyclopedic how repression occurs when an individual goes against the majority. Going against the majority‚ and or against what is expected of one by society‚ is not an easy task. For example‚ “when the Millikin University football team decided to protest the national anthem

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    specifically written about the consequences of the Spanish Civil War. That is what we will try to do in this written account. Most specialists agree that foreign historians contributed the most to the investigation of the Spanish Civil War‚ the Post-War repression and Francoism due to the absence of liberties and the presence of censure in Franco’s Spain‚ which prevented Spanish historians to work on the subject. Therefore‚ we have selected a series of reference books by prestigious historians and writers

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    effective government after a revolution. This is something that Sun Yat-sen did not do‚ a factor which led to the quick end of his new government. Differences between the outcomes of the two revolutions were that following the decline of Russia’s tsarist government‚ they experienced stable times devoted to education and public works. During this period literacy rate in Russia increased. China‚ on the other fell behind. China‚ following the decline of Sun Yat-sen’s republic‚ underwent difficult times

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    How far was political opposition to the Tsar divided in their aims and methods‚ 1881-1905? Political opponents of the Tsar were clearly divided in their aims and methods‚ and consequentially may have contributed to the survival of Tsarist Russia. The main parties were the Social democrats (Bolsheviks and Mensheviks)‚ Social Revolutionaries and Liberals (Octobrists and Kadets). Each of these radical parties had their own separate beliefs on what Russia needed and each aimed for some sort of change

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    oppositional forces. One example of this is the Civil War of 1918 where Richard Pipes argued it was a ‘foregone conclusion’ that the Reds would win. The Whites were made up of many different oppositional groups such as the SRs‚ Liberals looking for a tsarist revival and foreign forces concerned with stopping the spread of communism‚ which meant they lacked a common purpose or motive to defeat the Bolsheviks and was one of the fundamental reasons why they were unsuccessful in winning the Civil War. As

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    1.1. Introduction This paper examines the effect of financial liberalisation (FL) on economic development in less developed countries (LDC). The paper is divided into several sections; the first examines the concept of financial repression and the second introduces the Mckinnon-Shaw thesis of financial liberalisation; section three looks at the critique of Mckinnon-Shaw thesis. This paper presents some evidence that will indicate a positive relationship between financial liberalisation and economic

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