Essays On Communism

What would your reaction be if you were accused of something and were innocent? This is what happened to many people in the Salem Witch Trials and in McCarthyism. Innocent people were being punished for crimes that they did not commit. Even though there was little evidence, they were being hurt simply because somebody didn’t […]

J. Arch Getty says that “The Great Terror of the 1930s in the Soviet Union was one of the most horrible cases of political violence in modern history” but was this political terror a result of Stalin’s own paranoia or a necessity to maintain control in Soviet Russia? Robert Service argues that “Nowadays, virtually all […]

The paper discusses three books: “Outwitting the Gestapo” by Lucie Aubrac, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed,” and “Soul on Ice.” The focus is mainly on Lucie Aubrac’s book, which recounts her experiences as a French Resistance fighter during World War II in Lyon. Alongside her husband Raymond Aubrac and other rebels, Lucie actively […]

The primary cause of the Cold War was the inability of the Americans to accept the lifestyle chosen by the Soviet Union as communists. The Cold War originated from a strong belief in American individualism and an attempt to enforce our values on the Soviets. Americans highly value individualism, capitalism, and a prosperous economy. They […]

‘Television brought the brutality of the war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ’ (Marshall McLuhan, 1975). What evidence exists to demonstrate that the American media coverage of the Vietnam War influenced its outcome? There are only two […]

Development of the Cold War, in the five years between 1945 and 1950, could be argued as taking place for a number of reasons and due to various individuals. It could be easy to simply site Stalin as the main reason responsible for it’s outbreak and growth, clear through his approach on communist expansion, use […]

Sedona initiated a series of revolutions to change the way China ran, the final being the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution starting in 1966 and ending in 1976 (1). The goal of this investigation is to determine Mao Godsons motives as a leader to initiate such a movement that ended up with the loss of culture, […]

The Nicaraguan Revolution took place in the 1970s and aimed to overthrow President Somoza’s dictatorship. Led by the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), it successfully removed Somoza from power through violent means in 1979. The FSLN governed Nicaragua with socialist policies until 1990, which had significant consequences for Nicaragua’s foreign policy and involvement in […]

The Red Guard youths during the Cultural Revolution created chaos and paralysis by looting temples, restaurants, and other symbols of traditional values. This situation resembled the anarchy depicted in Lord of the Flies. Additionally, this time period led to a reorganization within the communist party where middle school and high school students took charge of […]

In Salem, Massachusetts, a dozen teen-age girls and a black slave woman are caught dancing in the woods around a bubbling cauldron. Today, you wouldn’t even use the word caught. You might think these girls were strange, but you’d hardly call the cops on them. But it’s 1692, and Salem isn’t just an ordinary small […]

Eventually, empires and nations all collapse. The end can be brought about by many causes. Whether through becoming too large for their own good, being ruled by a series of out of touch men, falling behind technologically, having too many enemies, succumbing to civil war, or a combination: no country is safe. The Russia of […]

Confucianism is a time enduring philosophy that has stood up to invading clans, war, resentment, enforcement and infringement of new philosophies, and eventually, revival. For almost 80years, up until the late 1970s, Confucianism and its ideas and values have been all but wiped away from China.Though effort was made to remove Confucianism for good from […]

Communism can be referred to as a utopian state of government in which the state has power and possess certain property, resources and production process. Specific property are not owned by the citizens’ of a country. The state can provide a form of equal resource and national production and distribution to the citizens in communisms. […]

National Socialism involves combining cultural, racial, linguistic, and spiritual values with a historical perspective on life. This ideology was primarily associated with Germany and Italy. Although it shared similarities with Italian fascism, German nationalism under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stood out for its dictatorial rule and widespread popularity. As a result, the movement […]

Democracy is believed to be vague in Islamic states. This debate postulated in 2010 declares democracy totally obsolete in Islam. These states do not believe in democracy as they don’t see any importance in elections. There culture in politics will never be democratic like other states. Furthermore, there are no institutions that practice democratic rights […]

Some of the Europeans argued for the end of colonization whereas others argued for continued colonization and the exploitation of the existing resources. The decolonization process was challenging as some nations had adapted well to the regions and people they had colonized. China and Asia advocated for communism in the countries they governed. European countries […]

“Agenda: Grinding America Down,” a documentary produced by Curtis Bowers, a former representative of Idaho State, was released in 2010. The film originated from Bowers’ experience at a Communist Party USA gathering in Berkeley in 1992, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Essentially, the movie highlights the ongoing presence and imminent threat of Communism […]

Both Eisenhower and Truman served as presidents, that is, the 34th and 33rd presidents, but despite this, both had similar policies but also different in some ways. One of the similarities was that both had laid strategies to deal with the issue of communism (Parry?Giles, 1996). However, both had diverse actions of dealing with the […]

Evidence shows that Karl Marx was the first person to write about communism. He was a German Philosopher who ran away from his homeland due to fear of authorities. The Karl Marx communism theory was known as Marxism. In his theory of communism, Karl Marx augured that there was a class struggles in the society, […]

During the 1920’s and 1930’s, most people held the ideology that systems of governance like Nazism or communism were the best systems and nothing could be truer. These people had no belief, whatsoever, in the ideology of democracy, that is, the majority rule. Moreover, they did not see the democracy as a viable replacement to […]