Regime Essays

  • The Fall of the Czarist Regime in 1917

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    The Fall of the Czarist Regime in 1917 Long-Term Causes: Source A, the Russian wedding cake was quite a big cause. Russian society was being held up by the peasants and workers. If it weren't for the peasants, the Czarist regime would have fallen a long time before it did. Society was fine until the peasants rioted and revolted in 1917 and then the whole country collapsed. This contributed to the Czar's fall in 1917 because he was not helping the peasants and looking after them so eventually

  • The Emotionalal Regime Vs. Emotional Communities

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    Emotional Regimes vs. Emotional Communities The history of emotions is a recently identified field that analyzes the various emotions of individuals and societies across diverse cultures and time periods. A few theories have been established in this field since 1985, two of them being emotional regimes and emotional communities. In 2001, William Reddy purposed the theory of emotional regimes and in 2002 Barbara Rosenwein purposed the theory of emotional communities. This paper will examine the

  • Internet and Politics - Despotic Regimes and Internet Censorship

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    if you are a despotic regime throwing all your resources into it. You won't stop everyone and everything, but if the aim is to prevent enough citizens from getting free speech to topple your regime, then you can succeed. For a start, people can't access the Internet using just brainwaves. They need a computer connected to a wired or wireless phone line. Stopping someone getting access to that, and you stop their Internet. Most countries ruled by authoritarian regimes are poor and have low telephone

  • Warlords and Regime Change

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    vulnerable border. Although stability is evident in this region by allowing warlords... ... middle of paper ... ...s shown and as Downes argues, regime changes can bring states back to their initial phase and potentially lead to worse circumstances and more vulnerability for that state. Thus, I have to concur with Downes and conclude that regime changes, even if it means maintaining warlord power, is far too risky of a task for a state to take on. In conclusion, a state cannot allow for a warlord

  • Revolution in France: Who Benefited Most From The Collapse Of The Ancien Regime?

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    Revolution in France: Who Benefited Most From The Collapse Of The Ancien Regime? The Ancien Regime (French for Old Order) was the way society was run, in a period in French history occurring before the French Revolution (1789 - 1799). France was ruled by an absolute monarchy (a system where the king was classed as divine - an infallible role) King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The French society was separated into classes or Estates. The first Estate was the Clergy who were extremely rich

  • France Section 1770 - 1789 - Crisis in the old regime

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    France Section 1770 - 1789 - Crisis in the old regime The causes of tensions and conflicts generated in the old regime that contributed to the outbreak of revolution The composition of society was a major contributing factor to the tensions and conflicts generated under the old regime. Society was divided into Three Estates, the first Estate comprised of the clergy (1%), the nobility, and rest of the population was classified as the Third Estate. Not only was the Third Estate heterogeneous,

  • Animal Farm as a Political Satire to Criticise Totalitarian Regimes

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    Animal Farm as a Political Satire to Criticise Totalitarian Regimes This study aims to determine that George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm, Chapter one is devoted to a brief summary of the progress of author's life and significant events that had impact on his political convictions. Chapter

  • The Main Features of Government and Society Under the Ancient Regime in France before 1789

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    The Main Features of Government and Society Under the Ancient Regime in France before 1789 French society before 1789 existed with many problems and tensions due to the various sections of society and the King’s government’s inability to operate on these problems effectively and efficiently. The King had absolute power at this time in that he authority was not limited by any representative body such as a parliament. He was responsible only to God however the power of the monarchy was

  • The Spanish Inquisition

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    contents of this “regime,” but also his main thesis and interpretation are based on criticizing the origins of anti-Semitism, how the Spanish Inquisition “defended the Catholic faith” against Jews, Muslims, Protestantism, and witchcraft. Also, Pérez continues his thesis and interpretations when he argued against the trials and organization of “the Holy Office”—the Inquisition. Finally, Pérez reinforced his main thesis by arguing and comparing the Spanish Inquisition with modern regimes, such as Nazi

  • Racism: a Short History

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    continued inequities and sociopolitical oppression worldwide in Racism: A Brief History. His book delineates the rise of modern race theory, beginning in Medieval Europe and synthesizing an explanation for the existence and success of the overtly racist regimes, the United States, South Africa, and Nazi Germany. Fredrickson cautions, however, that racism can easily become interchangeable with religious bigotry when facing corporatism that aims to alienate, marginalize, and devalue human beings as mere consumers

  • Bigger Thomas, of Native Son and Tupac Shakur

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    "Negro writers must accept the nationalist implications of their lives, not in order to encourage them, but in order to change and transcend them. They must accept the concept of nationalism because, in order to transcend it, they must posses and understand it." -- Richard Wright In 1996, famed rapper and entertainer Tupac Shakur[1] was gunned down in Las Vegas. Journalistic sentiment at the time suggested he deserved the brutal death. The New York Times headline, "Rap Performer Who Personified

  • The 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala

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    Guatemala has long been acknowledged to have been the result of CIA covert action. Recently declassified documents have shown a new, and more sinister light, on the CIA's involvement in an action that gave birth to some of the most brutally dictatorial regimes in modern history. No one at this point will dispute the original involvement, but there are still those who maintain that this is all water over the dam of history and that the US has not had direct responsibility for the actions of a Guatemalan

  • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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    virtually impossible for defects in governance either to be recognized by the ruled or to be challenged by them. Governance has gone by default since regimes did not share decisions with their subjects but left them to suffer the consequences of failure. In more recent times the growth of democracy together with the waning of communism and other extreme regimes has led to increasing concern at undue concentrations of power and its misuse. The loss or depreciation of long – accepted models has created intellectual

  • The Search for True Moral Authority

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    education ideals described in the book: the Spartan regime, praised by the Lacedaemonian king Archidamus, and the Athenian ideal, supported by Pericles, the Athenian ruler. Socrates discusses both of these regimes in Plato’s Republic in an attempt to make a statement about what constitutes true and effective education. After close analysis, it is clear that Socrates does not support either educational ideal. Instead, Socrates rejects both regimes—the Athenian because it has no real guidance and thus

  • Authoritarian Regimes

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    out for themselves. Even in non-democractic, authoritarian regimes, elections do exist and voter turnouts tend to incorporate a large percentage of the population. Even more commonly in authoritarian regimes, candidates are repeated for years and even for decades and the results are often predetermined. Elections in non-democractic regimes exist in different levels; however, they rarely offer opportunities for changing the existing regime. According to Lisa Blaydes, a professor in the Department

  • The Dominican Republic, and its owner, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo

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    The Dominican Republic, and its owner, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo All throughout the 20th century we can observe the marked presence of totalitarian regimes and governments in Latin America. Countries like Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic all suffered under the merciless rule of dictators and military leaders. Yet the latter country, the Dominican Republic, experienced a unique variation of these popular dictatorships, one that in the eyes of the world of those

  • Duvalier Regime

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    The Duvalier regime is said to be one of the worst administrations in Haiti killing more than 30,000 people. The regimes of Francois Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier who ruled Haiti lasted from September 22nd 1957 to February 6th 1986. Francois was trained as a physician and known to his people as "Papa Doc". Duvalier ruled his country as no other Haitian chief executive had, using violence and phony elections to hold down any opposition. Francois made himself president for life and later

  • Ancien Regimes

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    Britain are referred to as Ancien Regimes in each respective country. These periods of time in each country are referred to as Ancien Regimes or “old regimes” for the fact that they are no longer the social and political structures that are still in place in both France and Britain any longer. Because they are old regimes, that must mean that they came to an end, and indeed they both did, one in 1792 and the other in 1832. There is no argument that both of these regimes came to an end. However, the ways

  • The Nazi Regime, By Josef Goebbels And The Nazi Regime

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    The Nazi regime, beginning in 1924 and moving through till 1945, accomplished the perversion of an entire peoples’ principle through the sustained and all-encompassing use of propaganda. Without outside influence the German people were exposed to an influx of Nazi co-ordinated information that perpetrated no views but their own; the acceptance of views by those around them prevented free-will through a semi-national belief in the ideology of one party. The domination of the mass media by Josef Goebbels

  • To what extent did propaganda influence Nazi consolidation of power 1933-1939?

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    power 1933-1939? The Nazi regime in Germany implemented itself swiftly and effectively - the National Socialists had only three Nazis in a cabinet of twelve in January 1933, yet within two months Hitler had consolidated his political power by entirely legal means . With this, came the need for support from the German public. For a regime to 'consolidate' its power people could be too afraid to rebel against it, or they could be convinced of the value of the regime, or a combination of both. In