...SOCIALISM Student Edward Hawkins Instructor: Professor Muhammed Sohna SOC300 – Sociology of Developing Countries May 5, 2013 SOCIALISM Definition Socialism – Socialism is a political term applied to an economic system in which property us held in common and not individually, and relationships are governed by a political hierarchy. Common ownership doesn’t mean decisions are made collectively, however. Instead, individuals in positions of authority make decisions in the name of the collective group. Also, socialism is a social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. History The history of socialism has its origins in the French Revolution of 1789 and the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, although it has its precedents in earlier movements and ideas. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed ‘scientific socialism’. In the last third of the 19th century in Europe social democratic parties arose in Europe drawing mainly from Marxism. The Australian Labor Party was the world’s first elected socialist party when the party won the 1899 Queensland state election. In the first half of the twentieth century, the Soviet Uniion and the Communist parties of the Third International Around the world mainly came to represent socialism in terms...
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...The Soviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr. Sovetskij Soyuz; IPA: [sɐ'vʲetskʲɪj sɐˈjʉs]), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] ( listen)) abbreviated to USSR (Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR) was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the provisional government that had replaced the Tsar. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between the revolutionary "Reds" and the counter-revolutionary "Whites." The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local Communists take power through soviets, which nominally acted on behalf of workers and peasants. In 1922, the Communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power...
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...Following Alexandra’s and Rasputin’s interference with the Duma a series of revolutions shook the palace. Members of Duma, a political party known as the Bolsheviks took control of Russia. The Bolsheviks dismantled the monarchy and helped create the Russian SFSR, also known as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The army leadership committee felt that they did not have the means to fight the change thus abandoning Nicholas II and his family. On March 15, 1917 Nicholas was forced abdicated his throne. His family was taken in as prisoners under command of Bolshevik leader’s Vladimir Lenin and Yakov...
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...1999. Before he was interested in politics, he served as a KGB for 16 years. On top of everything, Putin is known as a great icon in Russia with multiple commercial products named after him. Putin has had a total of 3 Presidential Terms and two Premierships. Throughout his political career, Vladimir Putin has served many positions from being an advisor, to head of the Committee for External Relations, now to President. Putin currently turned 60, which is Russia’s retirement age, but according to Forbe’s List, “Who's got the nerve to tell him to quit?” From his early life, KGB career, and all of his political positions, Putin has lived a very jam packed lifestyle. Vladimir Putin was born on October 7 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, which is now Saint Petersburg, Russia. On 1 September 1960, he started at School No. 193 at Baskov Lane, which sat right across from his house. By fifth grade he was one of a few in a class of more than 45 pupils who was not yet a member of the Pioneers, largely because of his rowdy behavior. By his early teens, he took sports such as judo and sambo very seriously. Putin graduated from the International Law branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975, writing his final thesis on international law which argued that Russian economic success would...
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...CLASS: BBA 5-D COURSE INSTRUCTOR: SIR DR IQBAL PANHWAR COURSE: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SUBMITTED BY: M.SHARIQUE SHAFIQUE REG NO: 35233 ABSTRACT The objective of the report is to know, how Finland Developed and Growth as an Economy in the past years till now. They achieve developed ranked from developing stage. Their Growth infrastructure, Indicators of demographics, economic and health. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my teacher SIR DR IQBAL AHMED PANHWAR(PHD), for giving this opportunity for doing the report on the topic “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN Finland” and he motivates suggestions and encouragement as well as helped me to coordinate in my report by giving information about this topic . I would also like to thank Sir Asad Ali Minhas (Teacher Assistant) for his acceptance and giving me valuable time for answering my question regarding this Report.. This study has indeed helped me to explore more knowledgeable ways related to this topic and I am sure that it will help us in our future! S.NO | Contents | Page No | | | | 1 | Acknowledgement | 3 | 2 | Table of country profile | 5 | 3 | Introduction | 6 | 4 | Economy Of Finland | 9 | 5 | Human Development Index(HDI) | 10 | 6 | Economy Sectors Of Finland | 12 | 7 | Indicators | 14 | 8 | Rostow’s Growth Model | 16 | 9 | Conclusion | 16 | | References | 16 | TABLE OF CONTENTS Capital and largest city | Helsinki 60°10′N 024°56′E | Official languages...
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