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…today by most people to be a more developed stage of Marxism-Leninism. This is because of the historical and cultural background of China and because of her geographical position and climate which affects society. Contrary to Russia, Communism developed…

…of an Irish Republic. Their blow for freedom was to reverberate round the world, and preceded the first Russian Revolution by almost a year. The background to the rebellion was the centuries of national oppression suffered by the Irish people in the interests…

…that followed Lenin brought fear and misery to Russian people and to the rest of the world. Marx and Engels thought their ideas would free man but because human nature is what it is, communism only enslaved its people more. Unchecked power, whether capitalist…

…During the Cold War not much was known about the activities of the Russian state security organization by western intelligence agencies. However after the collapse of the Soviet Union, documents that have been smuggled out by KGB agents (Wilson 1) have…

…unnecessary brutality of the great terror. Similarly, in modern post-Soviet Russia there are still those who hold to the old revolutionary ideals that glorified the Bolsheviks as the saviors of the Russian people, while most Western democracies have seen…

…suffered from economic tensions and a disastrous war with Japan in the early 20th century. The reluctance of the government to act in problematic situations and its isolation of the problems of Russian society caused general unrest within the peasantry…

…The Soviet Union, officially established after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the end of the Civil War in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin, finally came to its collapse in 1991 at the leave of the former Warsaw Pact Eastern European countries. Countless…

…material, and their familiarity with the Russian culture pertaining to the Soviet Cold War policies under Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. They addressed the Soviet Union's true intentions through a series of intimate portraits that take the reader…

…, a regime that still exists, albeit in a slightly more watered down version than that which was established by and flourished under Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (aka Mao Zedong). The Chinese and Russian models of Communism differ again, this time from each other…

…that if the Revolution occurs, the war with Russia would eventually finish. As a matter of fact Lenin and the Bolsheviks takes over the country on November 7, 1917. Everything that was planned by Germans came true and Russians made peace with Germany. The Western front…