A Totalitarian State? When Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party took power in 1933, a wave of terror was begun which led to the genocide of millions of people and the destruction of much of the European continent. While the reign of the National Socialist regime has been universally recog...

Exploring the importance of the Revolutions of 1917 in bringing about the rise of a single-party state in Russia. "No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution.... Revolution is but thought carried into action (Emma Goldman, Anarchism 1917)." The people of Russ...

It is hard to imagine that the powerful individual, Stalin, was once a peasant himself who was always under strict rule of the Tsarist regime. Stalin, as a young man who hated the political system he was under, was introduced to Marxism, a political philosophy which he became very interested in and ...

The issue analyzed by this paper is whether or not the United States government should be able to have more control of every aspect in our society. An analysis of this issue is important because as a society, we should acknowledge that the way we are living now is not necessarily the "right&q...

Communism * Red Star * Communism is an ideal society that is unrealistic for humans to maintain. In this system major resources and means of production are owned by the community rather than by individuals. The society is without money, without ...

Revolutions in the past have occurred because of powerful dynamic leaders. The Russian Revolution implied complete and drastic change, but the revolutionaries were the people who tried to bring about such changes. Lenin and Stalin were influential revolutionary leaders that set up a new way of livin...

Past and present, ancient and modern, young and old, Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, north and south, urban and rural, monarchist and socialist: the extremes of Albanian society are vivid, it's tensions palpable. But Albania is not "another Yugoslavia:" it is more like a tensegri...

In 1948, Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, wrote a book called 1984. With chilling insights into the future, the novel reveals a totalitarian society as it's functioning in the year 1984. In this world, people are ruled under "The Party." At the head of this government is a figur...

The nineteenth century in England was a transitional time from feudalism to capitalism, that was characterized by a rapid increase in industry and extreme poverty among the masses. In response to these conditions, a new concept of society, called socialism, came into being. However, despite the clas...

Economic Systems In the world today there are primarily three types of economies and they are capitalism, socialism, and communism. The United States is an example of a capitalistic country, where Cuba is an example of a country adhering to Communism. These three economic types have scattered si...

A People's History of the United States concentrates on the personal experiences and struggles of people who lived in the United States from 1492-present. It is a view of history from the common man's perspective, rather than the view of the leaders and upper class of this cou...

Since the Industrial Revolution, two main economic systems have developed; these are capitalism and socialism. Both of these systems have its advantages and disadvantages. Adam Smith, known as the father of capitalism, bases capitalism on three main points: wealth, competition, freedom of enterprise...

1984 The terrors of a totalitarian government presented in George Orwell's 1984 apply not only to the Party, but also to the Stalinist Russia of the 1930's. Frightening similarities exist between these two bodies which both started out as forms of government, and then mutated into life-con...

With his views of societies, social change, and critique of capitalism, Karl Marx established new theories about quality of life and man's role in the political and social agenda. Because his writings bared new and plausible conclusions, many modern thinkers, humanists, and moralists quickly e...

ANARCHISM: THE ALTERNATIVE TO GOVERNMENT After the Middle Ages, Europe entered a stage of monarchy. The birth of the modern European nations occurred under the control of kings, queens, and noblemen. Spain, France and England (most noticeably in Western Europe) and their counterparts, Polan...

"Ideologies have provided us with a basis from which we can determine the thinking and rationale that are used by decision marker." (Ideologies' assignment hand out, Mr. Fenn) After reading and discussing the three main ideologies, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism (written by Andrew Vincent) ...

During the late 19th century there were many socio-political systems for industrial laborers to ponder, including Marxist Socialism, Revisionists Socialism, Capitalism, and Anarchism. Marxist Socialism is a system in which workers were paid according to their work performed, ownership and operation...

Vietnam was a country that had been at war for many years. In 1954, the occupying French finally left Vietnam and a Geneva code was drawn up outlining the peace treaty. The United States had troops in Vietnam at the time of the cease-fire and they remained there after the Geneva code. Since the e...

In what might become a key issue in the November election is China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). In case you haven't noticed the WTO has been a key issue over the past couple of months. Groups have been blaming the WTO for all the world's problems. "The WTO is a...

Mao turned China into a complete Totalitarianism state. It was the Communist ideology that ran the country. All social, political, economic, Cultural and intellectual activities were in some way controlled by Mao. Mao set many rules by which the people were to live by making China at the time, a t...

In the years following the end of the Cold War, many historians and social scientists have written accounts of what were some of the causes and effects of this period when the threat of war was almost always present. One such person was Melvyn Leffler and his work, The Specter of Communism, whic...

In Karl Marx's sociological dissertation "The German Ideology," he argues that humans by nature are multifaceted and creative beings. In addition to that notion, he also believes that people are social beings, having an intrinsic or, as he states it, a "human essence" to want to be able to work...

The former USSR, now called Russia, has abandoned its dreams of a communist utopia in the hopes of becoming a strong capitalist country. But the road is not an easy one. To do this, Russia must abandon the last vestiges of its former regime, and even if they are successful in this, they must also ex...

Moscow On The Hudson The film, Moscow On The Hudson, brings the viewers to the height of the Cold War, during World War II. In the beginning, the movie is set in communist Russia, but it soon advances to democratic America. The Russians thought poorly of Americans, and constantly referred ...

Past and present, ancient and modern, young and old, Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, north and south, urban and rural, monarchist and socialist: the extremes of Albanian society are vivid, it's tensions palpable. But Albania is not "another Yugoslavia:" it is more like a tense...