first time was in 1950‚ when the Liberal Party introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (CPDB). Menzies tried to make it a law so that the CPA would become illegal. However‚ this was unsuccessful as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and many other unions opposed it as this would lead to the Liberal Party to ban any minority group they wanted including the ALP. The second way Menzies tried to prohibit the CPA was by having a Communist Party Dissolution Referendum in 1951 which was narrowly defeated
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Chinese school. Liang was born into a family where his father was a devote communist reporter and his mother who was accused of being part of a non-communist rightest group called the Hundred Flowers. The Hundred Flowers wanted to purify the communism that currently existed in China by finding faults in the existing communist regime. Liang’s mother did not criticize at first because her she had her job because of the Communist party and loved the party as a result. Mao Zedong‚ chairman of China‚ wanted
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must overcome some obstacles. First‚ its transportation infrastructure is still primitive‚ a result of years of war. Substantial investment in improving roadways and airports is crucial in order to facilitate distribution across the area. Next‚ the Communist government’s tight controls‚ despite its recent openness to investment‚ must be loosened. Likewise‚ corruption continues to be a major concern for investors. Therefore‚ although Vietnam is an attractive opportunity‚ investors must be cautious‚ but
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communism spread in the twentieth century‚ communist regimes initially enacted gender reforms in order to gain a female following. “While women struggled for freedom throughout the western world‚ communist revolutions were radically equalizing for females‚ helping the suffragettes everywhere.”However‚ as feminist movements became more radical‚ communist governments slowed this reform.While women struggled for freedom throughout the western world‚ communist revolutions were radically equalizing for
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The Role of Citizen Political Participation in Hong Kong and Singapore Both Hong Kong and Singapore are city states that traditionally have lacked broad political participation‚ instead political decisions were left up to a small group of leaders. Historical factors were critical in determining the role of political participation in both city states. Hong Kong’s history of colonial rule and the strength of the People’s Action Party (PAP) in Singapore acted to keep broad citizen participation
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defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29 Lenin’s death in 1924 not only created a power vacuum but also a bitter struggle for supremacy between Stalin‚ Trotsky‚ Zinoviev‚ Kamenev and Bukharin as each tried to become the new leader of the communist party. Whilst I do think that the personalities of the combatants were noteworthy I believe that the other elements involved such as Stalin’s tactical skill‚ the debate over permanent Revolution and socialism in one country‚ and powerbases held
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“Globalization Promotes Democracy Both Directly and Indirectly” Bhagwati‚ Jagdish Globalization‚ 2007 Globalization Promotes Democracy Both Directly and Indirectly Globalization promotes democracy both directly and indirectly. The direct link comes from the fact that rural farmers are now able to bypass the dominant classes and castes by taking their produce directly to the market thanks to modern information technology‚ thereby loosening the control of these traditionally hegemonic groups. In
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Poland held liberalized elections in June 1989‚ which resulted in the first non-communist premier in the eastern bloc. Tadeusz Mazowiecki‚ the new leader‚ flew immediately to Moscow to discuss the task before him with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. On October 18‚ 1989 reformist leaders in Hungry dumped communist dogmas and transformed their Communist Party into a Western Style Socialist Party. The nations legislature declared Hungry a Republic committed to both bourgeois democracy and democratic socialism
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independently from domestic‚ major classes. A recent account of how external threats influence economic development might be Jeffrey Herbst’ study (2000) on the formation of European nation states and modern Africa. It was argued that in Europe‚ high population density combined with limited land induces states to establish more efficient armies and bureaucracies in order to survive‚ whereas low population density combined with low external threats in Africa reduce the necessity of defending territory
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created‚ the USSR. The idea of socialism was developed through Marxist-Leninist theory‚ which is the building of the material base for communist under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Under the theory of socialism in USSR‚ everyone in the country must think for the whole community‚ and all businesses are under the government’s control‚ and it is also a one-party state. The founding of socialism was the biggest threaten to the West back then. The central country of the West was the USA‚ a country under
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