China in the years 1949 – 1957 can be described as a totalitarian state due to various aspects which were controlled‚ including New system of government was formed after several unstable years‚ nationalization of private sectors‚ making china self reliant‚ control of the media‚ infiltration of party cadres‚ education‚ hundred flowers campaign‚ mass mobilization. The CCP constructed a system of government that was centralized‚ pseudo-dictatorial and encouraged complete subservice to the state. When
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To what extent was the Soviet Union responsible for the division of Germany from 1945 to 1949? Post-war Germany found itself in the middle of international tensions after its division – between the Allied powers of Britain‚ France and the USA and the Soviet Union under Stalin. However‚ the German nation that hoped for a new beginning could not do so due to the distribution of her land between the victors of the Second World War‚ and historians have since debated over who was to blame for this occurring
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Carpet-Weavers‚ Morocco Carol Rumens By Marium Saud Japanwala Rumens‚ through the title of her poem is portraying a scene in Morocco‚ consisting of carpet weavers. This establishes a theme of work which runs throughout the poem. The title however‚ does not launch or even give a faint idea of the major theme contained in the poem‚ i.e. of social injustice and child labour. The poem begins with ’The children’‚ hence taking us by surprise. Nowhere in the title was anything about children expected
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How important were nuclear weapons in determining the development of the Cold War in the years 1949-63? On August 29th‚ 1949‚ the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb‚ at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. This event ended America’s monopoly of atomic weaponry and a new era began in which the Arms Race was central. On one side the Arms Race worsened US-USSR relations by encouraging brinkmanship from both sides‚ which could have potentially resulted in the most devastating war
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Was the Application of Terror the Main Method of Consolidation for Mao and the CCP between 1949 and 1952? Many would have cause to argue that terror was Mao’s ‘weapon of choice’ in consolidating his and the CCP’s power and control over the Chinese people; however‚ there are certainly other factors such as overwhelming military and political control‚ or persecution of certain demographics that could be considered to be just as important as the use of fear to force the masses into submission. While
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1. Introduction To what extent was the Chinese revolution‚ 1927-1949‚ a socialist revolution as defined by Marx? This investigation will be comparing classical Marxist doctrine with Mao Zedong thought and the Chinese revolution‚ to see the extent that the revolution adhered to Marxist doctrine. Classical Marxism will be defined by the works of Karl Marx and Fedrich Engels and Mao Zedong thought will be defined by the works of Mao Zedong. The primary sources used for this essay are Selected Work
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Explain why the USA was hostile towards the Soviet Union during 1945-1949. The USA and USSR both have very different ideologies. The USA believed in a capitalist economy and a democratic system of government. This meant that the citizens of America could vote in their President and Congress in free elections. But‚ in the USSR they believed in communism. This meant that people could vote in elections‚ but could only vote for members of the communist party. Before they even started working together
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its end had lasted for 44 years. 44 years of different degrees and stages of tension between the two Superpowers. Who was to blame for the outbreak and development of the Cold War? Both sides were to blame‚ and the Soviet policies between 1945 and 1949 were‚ thus‚ responsible for it to a certain extent. Economically‚ the Soviets did not allow its Eastern Bloc to receive the US’s Marshall Plan aid‚ and set up Comecon to oppose it‚ and these actions by the Soviets increased the tensions between the
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between the two sides. Between 1945 and 1948 communist regimes were established throughout Eastern Europe (Salami tactics). Albania (1945)‚ Bulgaria (1945)‚ Poland (1947)‚ Hungary (1947)‚ Romania (1945-1947)‚ Czechoslovakia (1948)‚ and East Germany (1949)‚ all these countries went through a different process‚ but the results were the same. The Red Army retained a presence in much of Eastern Europe during and after this process. A ’communist zone’ was created in Europe. This was seen as yet another
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How accurate is it to say that the Communist Government reforms brought widespread benefits to the Chinese People 1949-1956? Mao had no choice but to bring widespread benefits to the Chinese people in the years of 1949-56‚ this was because he was afraid of counter-revolution‚ and discoveries of large armaments in a GMD (Chinese Nationalist Party) base in the early years of his power shows he was right to be afraid. His initial aim was to get people on side and be conciliatory‚ which is important
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