Abstract
This case provides the opportunity to discuss and analyze major business and management topics, and to determine which business and management principles were applied by the businessmen in this case, and which were not applied.

From the Paper
"Factors such as managing change, ethics, decision making, and related aspects must be examined in order to assess what role they played or did not play as decisions were made."

Tags:case, study

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The main factors involved in obtaining and maintaining the Russian Communist state primarily under Lenin and Stalin are discussed. Aspects discussed include background information on the development (including discussion of Marx as well as the fall of the Romanov family), Communist ideology, use of propaganda and repression, and emphasis on the directed economic policies under Communism.

From the Paper
"The growth of the Communist single party state in the Soviet Union is a result of many factors. The writings of Karl Marx provided a blueprint upon which Communist followers developed their own ideology. Lenin and Stalin were powerful and effective leaders during the early stages of the Communist regime. The economic policies of both men served enhance the Russian economy and to further expand Communism. The party also repressed religion and diminished the importance of the family. The development and expansion of the single party state in the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1932 was a direct result of Lenin and Stalin s leadership capabilities, Communist ideology, the use of propaganda and terror, the directed economies under Lenin and Stalin, and state-sponsored repression of the church and diminishment of the family."

Tags:communism, communist, economic, ideology, lenin, litovsk, marx, marxism, orthodox, russian, soviet, stalin

From the Paper
"The Chinese Communist Party

Introduction
In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, only a handful of formally Communist states are left in the world. Moreover, most of these survivors, such as Cuba and North Korea, have the derelict appearance of societies left stranded by the tides of history. Their systems can no longer credibly claim to be on the vanguard of anything, and their political establishments appear all too likely to unravel in succession crises, a process perhaps already underway in North Korea, and hanging over any prospects of a post-Castro Communist Cuba. Their economies are in a state of slow-motion collapse. From being parts of a global movement, the surviving Communist states have become a collection of rather sad.."

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This paper looks at the challenge of operating a business in a foreign country. The case study in this paper presents a specific business situation, describes the prevailing conditions which needed to be addressed, relates the decisions that were made, and examines the consequences of failing to apply sound business and management principles.

Outline:
Introduction
Case Overview
Case Analysis
Lessons Learned

From the Paper
"In a foreign business environment there is always going to be pressure on a manager to conform to prevailing cultural values and attitudes, but businesses succeed or fail in accordance with their adherence to sound business and management principles, not their adherence to cultural expectations. Many of the problems encountered could have been avoided or overcome if top priorities would have been established, such as making decisions based upon sound management principles, delegating authority to subordinate managers only if they have demonstrated competence and reliability, and ensuring that effective assistance could be obtained if corrupt business rivals seek to exploit their connections to undermine
the business or infiltrate it with their own people."

Tags:Russia, business, management, corrupt, decisions

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This paper discusses the state and practice of ancient Chinese religious traditions in Communist China. The paper describes the discouragement of religion by the Chinese Communist Party and outlines the six ancient religions of China.

From the Paper
"The Chinese Communist Party, China's ruling party, long discouraged the practice of religion. Communism is an atheist form of government to begin with, but the Chinese Communist Party also regarded religion as a dangerous alternative credo to communism, a view that failed to deter Chinese citizens from practicing their religious beliefs even at great personal risk. Even though the Cultural Revolution that occurred saw massive religious persecution and the destruction of thousands of temples and churches..."

Tags:Communist China, communism, religions, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity

Abstract
In the "Communist Manifesto", Marx makes a number of sweeping claims about nature of the history of the world and its implications for his future. The writer points out that Marx speaks of the way that one system of oppression gives way to another and suggests that, eventually, the weight of the system will bring it crashing down, only to yield to a world where the majority, as represented by the state, has ultimate control and ownership of the means of production. The paper also indicates that, within the situation as it existed in Marx's current day, one can see how he was justified in making the predictions he did.

From the Paper
"Indeed, if society had progressed as he expected, and the economic conditions he predicted been achieved, it does seem likely that a revolution of some sort could not have been avoided. However, as of the current moment that condition has not been achieved, and it appears that many nations of the world (such as those in Europe) may have found compromises between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat that will allow both to survive so long as the equilibrium is kept. In countries like America, though, or like the many developing nations where capitalism is in much the same situation as it was in Marx's time, such revolutions may still appear to be quietly brewing. Should the economic conditions he envisions, of a time of overproduction so final that the system grinds to a halt, ever truly be achieved, he is surely right that a revolution would be forthcoming. Whether that revolution would follow communist ideals and lead to a strong socialist state may be up for debate, but the class-nature of its violence and its conflict are certain obvious."

Tags:class, society, production, state

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This three-page undergraduate paper is intended to explain how the four states of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia came to be ruled by Communist parties during the period 1944-1948.

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This paper examines the controversial speech delivered by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950, and how this represented the beginning of the most vicious anti-communist scare in American history. The paper discusses the political and economic situation in America at the time and why anti-communist feelings became so wide-spread. McCarthy's personality is also examined as a contributing factor to the spread of the anti-communist scare.

From the Paper
"Somehow his power-hunger mind didn't take a clue from all the accusations that he had to counter after his speech and continued with its obsession of thrashing others. McCarthy carelessly attacked some of the most respected names in the Senate and with Republicans winning the presidential elections of 1952; the senator became even more aggressive in his ambitions and his anticommunist stand. (Fried, 1976) But his tactics did more harm to the cause than good. McCarthy has been seriously accused of hurting the anti-communist cause. This is because once he started terrorizing everyone with Red Scare; the cause became a dangerous pursuit of a madman instead of a logical response to increasing powers of communism. Critics have focused on this aspect of McCarthy era too and many feel that had Joe McCarthy not been so violent about this issue, communism would have died earlier. Richard Gid Powers (1995) in his book, Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism notes, "[McCarthy's] rabid charges that there were Communist traitors among the nation's most trusted leaders- -the age-old fantasy of red web cultists--eclipsed the sober and truthful accounts of communism that anticommunists had provided over the past half decade, making anticommunism seem nothing more than the ravings of a dangerous madman." (45)"

Tags:communism, red, scare

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In this article, the writer looks at the views of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx regarding class struggle and economic and social conditions. The writer discusses that their political and economic theories were formulated in order to analyze how society functioned in a state of upheaval, constant change, and class struggle.

From the Paper
"In works like "The Communist Manifesto", written with Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx proposed a model of history in which economic and political conditions determined social conditions. Marx and Engels deplored the exploitation produced by capitalism and examined the emergence of classes such as the bourgeois and the proletariat, which they considered to be products of the rise and dominance of capitalism in Europe."

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This paper is about the history of communism and present communism in the United States. The author examines the events that led to the rise of communism, its concepts and where it stands today.

From the Paper
"The Communist Party, U.S.A., or CPUSA was founded in 1919. The radical war correspondent for the Metropolitan Magazine, John Reed, helped to organize the Communist Labor Party and was the founder and first editor of the "Voice of Labor". For a short period of time, he was the Soviet consul in New York. The Americans were strongly influenced by the success of the Bolshevik Revolution headed by V.I. Lenin. Many American socialists and radicals met in Chicago to form the American Communist Party. Many Americans were still divided so two parties were created: the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party. The Communist party consisted of relatively recent Russian and East European immigrants. They stressed loyalty to Marxist orthodoxy and proletarian revolution. The Communist Labor Party was more American orientated and with more pragmatic American radicals, such as Reed, who sought mass influence. The conflicting goals of discrepancy between Communist doctrine and American actuality kept the Communist movement a very small one."

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