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The Ideas of Marx and Engels

The system of capitalism that is seen as a necessary end may be equated with the Industrial Revolution, but of course they are two...

Why Did Iraq Invade Iran in 1980?

forward the 1979 Iranian revolution as the initial event that would lead to the war. While there had been a great deal of hostilit...

Understanding “The Big Switch”

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

Notes of a Red Guard by Eduard Dune and Bolshevism's Working Class Appeal

life because of the tales my father told. Each day his return home would be accompanied by stories of what had happened at the fa...

An Assessment of US Blame for Globalization

Globalization has changed the world as we know it. In the larger sense globalization is simply the increased relationship between...

Social Paradigm for Change Represented by the Scientific Revolution

1991). This invention meant that new ideas could be readily shared, and also, that it was much more difficult to the Church to c...

1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Terror

were not a! unique episode in Soviet history, but rather part of a continuing cycle of terror. This regime did not, in fact, dis...

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

In five pages this report focuses upon Communist author John Reed's perceptions regarding the 1917 Russian Revolution and Bolshevi...

West's Rise and Bulliet et al's The Earth and Its Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses the West's rise in a consideration of this 1997 text by Bulliet et al that includes the Atlanti...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

Jonathan Spence's Presentation of The Taiping Revolution in God's Chinese Son The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...

1750 to 1790 Colonial America and the Adoption of 'Revolutionary Habits'

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

1848's European Revolution

were all closely related. Prior to the uprising the Italian peninsula was subdivided into a number of states that were under dynas...

Events and Key Players of the American Revolution

colonists from making their own money. The Stamp Act placed taxation on almost all paper product goods: "all printed materials are...

Mexican Revolution and the Impact of Intervention by the United States

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

Peasant Village Life and the Effects of China's Cultural Revolution

to rid the Chinese Community Party of all of Maos rivals and enemies and to take control of their country through his leadership (...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

George A. Rawlyk's 'The American Revolution and Nova Scotia Reconsidered'

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

Political Philosophy and 4 Essay Topics

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

Revolutionary Development of the Internet

years later, software for personal computers became available. This software heralded the entrance of Bill Gates to the technologi...

Assessing the Cuban Revolution

almost all Cubans. Hunger and absolute poverty were overcome" (Bohmer, 2004). As mentioned, Cuba was not perfect. However,...

Race and Revolution by Gary Nash

of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American soc...

Nature of Revolution in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers

In three pages this paper examines the events that ignite into revolution as captured by filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's interpretati...

Property According to Edmund Burke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In seven pages this paper discusses how property was viewed by philosophers Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in Franc...

Human Nature According to Edmund Burke and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper discusses human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke in a consideratio...

Discrediting the Predictions of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how historians and contemporary history have combined to discredit the global revolution predict...

Explanation of Karl Marx's Theories

In twelve pages this paper examines concepts of capitalism, alienation, class struggle, and revolution in an overview of Karl Marx...