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it constituted a broad anti-communist social movement. The government ... and others formed a broad anti-communist social movement ranging from people ...

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who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... Robert Michels was born on January 9, 1876, in Cologne, Germany, into ...

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1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... in 1974 after it became known that one of his closest aides had been ...

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politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ... Although Kun was hostile to all forms of religion, his Jewish roots ...

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– June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...

to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...

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West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

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East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ...

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assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his ... Europe, where he joined the editorial board of Iskra, the publication of the ...

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in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...

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The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... In the late 1920s, the party was shaken by internal factionalism when ...

organization based on common control of the means of production as ... is generally associated with the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ...

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– May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...

leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...

was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...

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:"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...

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The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( ... published in London, the Manifesto is one of the world's most influential ...

defeated the Republicans, or Loyalists, of the Second Spanish Republic ... and civilians, formally acting independently of the state, massacred Catholic ...

At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...

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the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...

was a highly prominent woman within the Bolshevik party. The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced ...

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The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...

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A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...

Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...

politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...

politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... on Liberal support but managed to pass social reform legislation especially ...

The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...

The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...

into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...

The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or ... Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of ...

At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...

), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic ... was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ...

He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...

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September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Communication or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ...

German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...

a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...

Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...

in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...

The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa ... other nations on the continent as a result of two factors: higher European ...

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... affinity with Spain's northern region of Catalonia is longstanding; ...

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ... The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated islands ...

the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations with large state sectors ...

and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...

- December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999 ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...

an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as ... Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism ...

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Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...

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movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...

Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...

1892 – June 1, 1971) was a Protestant social ethicist, preacher, and prolific ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...

Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading ... they had been viewed as a single body of work, when in fact Marx had ...

– April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...

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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...

Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi ...

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...

– October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...

Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...

and commercial center, and the largest city of Moldova. Inhabited for thousands ... it has attempted to rebuild itself in spite of overwhelming odds. This is ...

Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...

Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...

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best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... collected in 1923 under the title Mirrors of Moscow. Later that year she ...

Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... to establish an authoritarian regime in a Germany that was still coming to ...

Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... Within the Bolshevik Party, Bukharin was initially considered a left ...

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...

(May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office ...

in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...

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political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the ...

an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...

The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...

Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds ...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. ...

Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... politics, specifically in the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of ...

22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...

Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...

(Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...

country in Central Europe and a member state of the European Union. Though ... for more than 40 years, until the breakup of the Soviet empire in 1989. ...

– May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...

, Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...

energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...

or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, was fought between ... colonial forces and agreed a quick handover of power for the nationalistic ...

The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...

Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...

power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 ... superpower and did not see the elimination of millions of lives as an impediment ...

Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...

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In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...

The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... nation's development. Large portions of Guatemala's interior remain ...

New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ...

abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...

The State of Illinois is a state of the United States of America, ... About 2,000 Native American hunters and a small number of French villagers ...

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...

as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...

The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...

The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...

Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...

The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...

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to those individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of ... there was a united resistance movement in Germany at any time during the Nazi ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

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Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...

World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...

Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... Germany is a democratic parliamentary federal republic, historically ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich in Central Europe, approximately between Germany, Italy and Hungary. ...

is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. The area is regarded by many Jews as the birthplace of the Jewish ...

from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

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The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...

Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...

The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...

and Rhine Rivers. Antwerp, an integral part of an enormous harbor complex ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...

The State of Florida is located in the southeastern region of the ... in population was caused by a large influx of people moving from other parts ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...

island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...

1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...

, is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation ... The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...

) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...

in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 ... an older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which ...

and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...

support came from Communist China. Most of the fighting took place in ... and professional troops (European of the French Foreign Legion) ...

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...

South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... The goal of water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay (dental caries ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...

death = August 25, 1900 (Weimar, Germany) | school_tradition = Precursor ... 1844 – August 25, 1900) is known as one of the main representatives of ...

Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States ... Originally home to the Plains Indians, the area was part of Louisiana ...

(The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...

The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...

(香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...

) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...

is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress ...