LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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The Great Depression
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Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939
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The Russian Civil War
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World War I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its membership increased during the Great Depression, and it also played a key role in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CPUSA subsequently declined due to events such as World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the second Red Scare, and the influence of McCarthyism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Communism launched from Lenin’s October Revolution and spread to China with Mao Zedong’s rise to power and to Cuba, with Fidel Castro’s takeover. It was the ideology behind one side of the Cold War and saw a symbolic decline with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Detailed explanation-3: -As one of the many types of socialism, communism became the dominant political tendency, along with social democracy, within the international socialist movement by the early 1920s. During most of the 20th century, around one-third of the world’s population lived under Communist governments.
Detailed explanation-4: -Classless society. A classless society is where there are no differences between the rich and the poor. Common ownership of all resources. For society to be classless, people need to abolish the existing system of control and division. Private property. Social equality. Against democracy.