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    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was made up of a series of revolutions in Russian with the aim to disassemble the authoritative Tsarist autocracy that eventually led to the upsurge of the Soviet Union. During this time‚ a new wave of innovative filmmakers who were determined to create a new way of seeing came about. Before the revolution‚ Russian films were dark‚ slow-moving melodramas featuring popular stars‚ but by 1917 the Russian film industry was galvanized by young men and women who despised

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    The Chinese and Russian Revolutions were both very influential in their government and overall cultures. In 1917‚ there were two revolutions in Russia‚ ending the Romanov Dynasty and imperial rule‚ and beginning political and social changes in the government ("Russian Revolution"). While in China‚ there were also two revolutions spanning out over a period of about 60 years‚ beginning in 1911‚ ending the Qing Dynasty and imperial rule as well. By 1917‚ most Russians had lost faith in the tsar‚ Czar

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    World Studies 16 January 2014 The Same Revolution?: The Russian and Chinese Communist Revolution Many question the many similarities and differences between the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Communist Revolution and how they may have been the same historical rebellion. Using Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of a Revolution to compare and contrast the two revolutions’ stages‚ there might be an answer to the debatable question. While during the Russian Revolution‚ they started out united‚ a new government

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    Animal Farm • an allegorical novel by George Orwell‚ published in England on 17 August 1945 • According to Orwell‚ the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. • He criticizes Stalin’s cult of personality and his reign of terror • his aim was to "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole" • Orwell wrote the book from November 1943–February 1944‚ when the wartime alliance with the Soviet

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    The Russian Revolution was a time of change. It completely changed the world with the fall of the autocracy and the monarch ruling without question and the first ever communist state. Through the use of ideology‚ the Bolsheviks could achieve their goal without the use of violence. The people involved would each play a key role in the revolution. The events that led up to the resulting violence at the end of the revolution were also very important to consider. The events towards the end of the revolution

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    Vice-Presidential candidates Mike Pence(R) and Tim Kaine(D) took to the stage Tuesday to debate which of their running mates could best lead the United States through a turbulent period in its history. Governor Pence and Senator Kaine were both given the chance to defend and promote their respective running mates in the debate‚ which took place in the crucial swing-state of Virginia and covered topics from economics‚ to foreign and domestic policy‚ to faith. The beginning of the debate asked each

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    mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between common farm animals and important communist/socialist leaders and political groups at the time‚ including Karl Marx/ Vladimir Lenin‚ Leon Trotsky‚ and Joseph Stalin. The actual plot of the novel follows a group of farm animals who overthrow a farm owner by force and set up their own community‚ in which all animals are treated equally‚ where all of them equally share the

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    Communist Manifesto‚ he established the ideology that could create his fantasy; Communism. Although his book achieved popularity and critical praise‚ there were those who saw flaws and ways to improve Marx’s first ideas of Communism. However‚ when Vladimir Lenin had the opportunity to make his dream a reality‚ he does not stray from Marx’s ideas of the poor mixing in with the rich‚ the cut-down of the rich and a bringing up of the poor‚ to create an equal class under a government which would provide

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    but only six years later‚ in 1907 he was expelled (Biography 2011). Why you ask? In between that time frame Stalin was taken into custody multiple times for numerous crimes and even exiled out of the country! However‚ his luck changed in 1912 when Vladimir Lenin appointed Stalin to the Bolshevik Central Committee(Simkin‚ 1978). Under this condition he was appointed multiple jobs and had to oblige by various orders. Later‚ he was even appointed the advantage of people’s Commissar for Nationalities‚

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    Duma was not seen as representing the will of the people. When World War 1 broke out all of parties united under the Russian flag except one‚ the Bolsheviks. In 1917 while Germany was fighting Russia on Russia’s Western Front a Russian Marxist named Vladimir Lenin was arrested in Germany. Since he was a Russian he was promptly arrested and questioned once the Germans realized the Russian was an anti-Czarist he was sent to Russia to cause instability in the country. Lenin led

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