True took place between 1899 and 1901
The Origins and Evolution of the Soviet State
The Soviet state was born in 1917. That year, the revolutionary
Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian czar and established a socialist state
in the territory that had once belonged to the Russian empire. In 1922,
Russia proper joined its far-flung republics in the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. The first leader of this Soviet state was the
Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
<span>Did You Know? In 1988, Time magazine
selected Mikhail Gorbachev to be its “Man of the Year” for his work
toward ending the Cold War. The next year, it named him its “Man of the
Decade.” In 1990, Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize.</span>
The
Soviet Union was supposed to be “a society of true democracy,” but in
many ways it was no less repressive than the czarist autocracy that
preceded it. It was ruled by a single party–the Communist Party–that
demanded the allegiance of every Russian citizen. After 1924, when the
dictator Joseph Stalin
came to power, the state exercised totalitarian control over the
economy, administering all industrial activity and establishing
collective farms. It also controlled every aspect of political and
social life. People who argued against Stalin’s policies were arrested
and sent to labor camps or executed.
Political philosophy during the Renaissance began to change with the renewed interest in THE GREEKS.
The Renaissance was the result of the dissemination of the ideas of humanism, which determined a new conception of man and the world. The term "renaissance" was used to claim certain elements of classical Greek and Roman culture, and was originally applied as a return to the values of Greco-Roman culture and the free contemplation of nature after centuries of predominance of a more rigid type of mentality and dogmatic established in medieval Europe.
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