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…between France and England was expected to be completed near the time of EuroDisney’s opening. 2.The deal of the century, as many called EuroDisney, came under protests from all sides. Communists and intellectuals protested heavily. Ariane Mnouchkine…

…become one of the most famed communist revoulutionaries in history. He will forever be remembered in the book including the likes of Lenin, Marx, Stalin, and Mao. But though he is remembered sometimes as similar to these men, he is quite different from…

…and the Chinese Communist Forces of the time. However thinly disguised the contempt and prejudice for the Communists, Thomas has still produced a remarkable account of the war. One of the first histories, published the year after the war ended, the political climate…

…. It is really amazing how people in countries so close to us have such different ways of living and thinking. Slavenka Drakulic is a reporter. Her husband is from Sweden. In her book and the collection of essays she stresses the post-communist era in East Europe…

…a communist form of government that has been installed since the days of Mao Zedong in the late 1950’s. The Chinese Communist Party is the part in power now since president Jiang Zemin is the general secretary of the party. The communist party is the “supreme…

…high all around. Deng also strengthened its political status up to that of a very powerful country. Though Deng did things bad his achievements rose above his failures. As newfound leader of communist China after Mao’s death Deng’s first goal…

…today and those it confronted during the Tiananmen crisis a decade ago may be alluring, they are misleading. In 1989, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced a genuine crisis of political legitimacy, which had its origins in 1978…

…but they definitely provoked it. The effects of the Korean War were great and widespread. Not really directly but indirectly mainly. Many anti-communist policies were put into place. The US had all kinds of policies directed towards communism after the war…

…is stopped. Well, you say, people were superstitious then. Nothing like that could happen today. Maybe so, but in the early 1950s, at the time The Crucible was written, a similar kind of hunt was taking place, not for witches, but for Communists. Today it bears…

…is not as domineering, pop culture provides for a lot of modern examples of homogeneity. Witch hunts like the ones in the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as the Salem witch trials and the communist hunts in the 20th century exploit human fears to condemn innocent victims…