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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In 1949‚ Mao Zedong declared the People’s Republic of China after the communists won the civil war against the nationalists‚ promising a fresh start‚ however China was a broken country following the Japanese and Civil Wars‚ which meant the new government inherited severe problems‚ the worst of which include hyperinflation‚ complete lack of industry‚ heavy food shortages‚ which was exacerbated by steep population increases. During the first eight years of power‚ Mao’s regime tackled the economy remarkably
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land become their personal property. Life was hard for peasants; diseases and malnutrition were very common and so the tsarist government grew unpopular. Nicholas II’s failure to give into the demands of the people was the main reason he lost his autocracy. The peasants felt betrayed by the Tsar and wanted political change. The 1905 revolution‚ Bloody Sunday‚ was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime‚ as the disregard for ordinary people shown by the reaction of the authorities undermined
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Jobs draws on all six types of power: legitimate‚ expert‚ reward‚ information‚ coercive‚ and referent. His vision and sheer force of will helped him succeed as a young unknown. But the same determination that helps him succeed has a darker side—an autocracy and drive for perfection that can make him tyrannical. Let’s take each of these in turn. 1. Legitimate power. As CEO of Apple‚ Jobs enjoys unquestioned legitimate power. 2. Expert power. His success has built a tremendous amount of expert
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The Russian Empire: Catherine the Great Questions: 1. My empire was established by Ivan IV (the terrible). He was crowned the first Tsar of Russia in 1547. During his long reign‚ Ivan the Terrible expanded the already large Russian territory by taking over the three Tatar khanates: Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga River‚ and Sibirean Khanate in Southwestern Siberia. So‚ by the end of the 16th century Russia was a multiethnic and transcontinental empire. 2. My empire handles different languages
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body of ideas known as Marxism. In his youth he was deeply affected by the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel‚ and joined a rebel group called the Young Hegelians‚ which contributed ideas towards the movement against organized religion and the Prussian Autocracy. Later on in life‚ he was influenced by the writings of Ludwig Feuerbach‚ who wrote that God was invented by humans as a projection of their own ideals‚ and that in creating such a ’perfect’ being‚ in contrast to themselves‚ mankind lowered themselves
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In Italy totalitarianism emerged in the shape of Fascism under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The world ’fascism’ draws its root from the Roman word ’Fascio’ which means a bundle of rods‚ which was once the emblem of the authority of Roman victors. It emerged as a movement in the post World War I period not only to meet the challenges of the international communist movement but also to tackic the various problems which confronted Italy and which the Italian government was not able to tackle
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He states‚ “It was‚ however‚ an autocracy by consent‚ for they were united top to bottom by a commonly held ideology whose perpetuation was the reason and justification for all their sufferings”(I. Page 6). Readers even today can see how deeply the church’s roots dug into society. Many
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The US was never completely isolated from the rest of the world‚ therefore engaging in imperialism in the early twentieth century had some justifications. The trade made the US an active member of world affairs. It was during the period of the 1890s that the US foreign policy became influenced by imperialism. During that decade‚ the US became the most important industrial power in the world. The US military‚ especially the Navy‚ was growing and expanding in other areas of the world where we had not
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Past paper questions- Russia in Revolution 1881-1924 From Autocracy to Dictatorship and Stalin’s Russia 1924-53 January 2009 How far were divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of the Tsarist rule in the years 1881-1905? (30 marks) OR How far was the Provisional Government responsible for its own downfall? (30 marks) How far were economic problems responsible for Stalin’s decision to replace the New Economic Policy in 1928 with the first Five-Year Plan? (30 marks)
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