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…, China has had its own unique story. The development and growth in the last few decades has, in a way, been a reversal of trends that began with the rise of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920's and 1940's. Communism arose in China to fill the vacuum…

…BALKANS The Balkans has been an area of great toil and conflict for many centuries. After World War I, the countries of this region had difficulty forming a steady and successful form of government. The communist party was revived in the 1930's…

…, there was obedience; discipline was enforced. The Communist Party became more homogenous with the purging of kulaks and "nepmen" who profited under Lenin's New Economic Policy. Even so, there was a marked rise in influence of Stalin and the Communist Party…

…and dominate; the Capitalist/Imperialist and the Communist/Socialist. Both were occupying different sides of Germany (America and Britain on the west side, and Russia on the east side).Both wanted to show the other who would be the major superpower. As soon…

…witch trials, he also wrote the play to comment on McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the term given to the widespread accusations and accompanying investigations against suspected Communist supporters in the United States during the 1950's. The word itself comes…

…, South-East Asia is a very important place. It is the perfect place to make a navy and air force base to seize the whole pacific. The US already had Pearl Harbor, they couldn't afford to let a communist country, or maybe even their allies have South-East Asia…

…Officially approved type of art in the former USSR and other communist countries. The creation of artworks came under the communist doctrine that all material goods, and the means of producing them, were the collective property of the community. Art…

…the atom bomb in 1945 which caused tensions between the two superpowers. When Truman came into office, he was even more anti-Communist and suspicious of Stalin than his predecessors. The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan allowed America to send money…

…and the audiences were meant to decide in their own minds whether that character acted in the right way. This was meant to be the way that Brecht would politicise the people to his way of thinking. Brecht was a Marxist, but never joined the Communist party as he felt…

…witchcraft trials of 1692 the play was inspired by Miller's belief that the hysteria surrounding the witchcraft trials paralleled the contemporary political climate of McCarthyism - Senator Joseph McCarthy's obsessive quest to uncover the communist infiltration…