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    The China-Vietnam Communist Party (CVCP) is the most popular communist party in the United States. The party was found in 1920 by George Lenin and his colleagues. During early years, CVCP had influential role in fighting for democratic rights. For instance, CVCP led the founding of many of America’s industrial unions. It also stood up against racism and segregation in the American societies while Jim Crow period was at its peak. Just two months after its establishment, the party had membership about

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    the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. -Senator Joseph McCarthy, West Virginia Communism in the early 1950’s in the United States was something that everyone feared. People did not know how to handle the topic of communism. Everyone was a suspect. So when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had a list of people that the United States government knew to be communists but were not being

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    The United States and Communist Russia endured a complicated relationship in the first half of the 20th century. In the early 1940’s the U.S. had encouraged an alliance with the Soviets against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. This short-lived accord began to deteriorate as WW II ended. By 1947 U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union had shifted from one of cooperation to a policy of containment. In 1949, when the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, it was a widely-held belief in the U.S. that

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    In the postwar united states, there was a huge anti communist sentiment caused by a fear of russian domination. Because of this, censorship became a part of life. Many politicians were accused of communist activities by one senator Joseph McCarthy and subsequently lost their positions. Organizations such as HUAC (House of Un-american Activities Committee) were responsible for the investigation of citizens who were accused of being involved in subversive activities. Among these citizens, were a

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    problem of human rights and the democratic process will be analyzed in the anti-communist contradictions of the covert Canadian operation called PROFUNC (PROminent FUNCtionaries of the communist party. PROFUNC defines a major problem with the democratic process by secretly monitoring and spying on communist party affiliates living in Canada in the aftermath of WWII. This Cold War policy not only sought to monitor communist, but it also sought to intern them in the potential WWWIII scenario with the

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    United States Constitution Compared to the Communist Manifesto Both the Communist Manifesto and the United States Constitution share some common ideas. They are documents that strive for ideas that in opposition to one another. The Communist Manifesto and The Constitution of the United States both include what the relationship between an individual and society should be about. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels talked about in the Communist Manifesto

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    After World War II, the Soviet Union wanted to create more communist nations, especially along their western border, to prevent themselves from being vulnerable to attack from the West again as they had been from Nazi Germany. Countries like the United States and Great Britain did not want the Soviet Union to spread communism but some Eastern European countries that had been victims of the Nazi regime saw communism as a good way to prevent another fascist regime from rising. Combined with the fact

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    incorporated into the Soviet Bloc and the PZPR usurped power within the one-part political system, there were numerous instances of anti-communist opposition that invariably encountered repression and persecution at the hands of the pro-Soviet government. In the context of the present discussion, however, the roots of concerted effort to undermine or reform the state-regulated socialist economy can be traced back to the emergence of Solidarity, the first Polish trade union that was not under a direct

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    the same as any man. But when he cried Communism the world seemed to listen.<br><br>Following the Cold War between Russia and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. These hardships produced a restless society. The society then looked for something or someone to blame (Fried, 39). They found someone to blame. Communists. Throughout the country there was a witch hunt known as the Red Scare. A basic idea was formed: Communism was evil. Anyone who participated

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    Under Mikhail Gorbachev the Soviet Union underwent massive social, political and economic reform that drifted away from communist ideology and this ultimately lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union and failure of communism in Eastern Europe. This essay will focus on how the Perestroika reform and Glasnost policy programs as well as other external and internal pressures contributed to the failure of communism under Gorbachev. The aim of the Perestroika and Glasnost reforms was to restructure and

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