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- December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist and pacifist. He was an ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that ... The foremost writer among proponents was the American Walter Rauschenbusch ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...19 KB (2,598 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- a political sociologist, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the ... " was born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- activist, women's suffrage fighter, socialist, and journalist. She worked ... Mary White Ovington was born on April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one ... to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- community organizer. Mother Jones was one of the founders of the Industrial ... Mary was born on the north side of Cork City, Ireland. When she was ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... Florence Kelley was born on September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... It was a reformist movement that influenced British and American architecture ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... and 1921 for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I. His health suffered ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 22:57, 3 May 2023
- ; April 4, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – June 12, 1999 in Chicago ... A brilliant scholar, he invested greatly in his students, brought ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn ... The May Fourth Movement led to the New Cultural Movement and a drastic ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- The Comintern (Communist International, also known as the Third International ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian ... Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- The Bolsheviks ( Большеви́к bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She was ... Crystal Eastman was born on June 25, 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Prize for 1905), Fried became interested in the peace movement and co-founded ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... Socialism developed as a political ideology in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- labor and political leader. He was born in England, to a Jewish family ... Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973) was the first ... changed. His compassion and respect for the rights of the Arab residents ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 22:27, 25 January 2024
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... It should be noted that the term Mao Zedong Thought has always been ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- languages: Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- The Fourth International (FI) was a communist international organization ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża ... Luxemburg was a German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, film ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... modern art movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- author, and government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech represented a milestone in his ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... experienced famine and economic collapse. The demoralized Russian Army suffered ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported ... The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- organization based on common control of the means of production as ... A major force in world politics since the early twentieth century ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... In the late 1920s, the party was shaken by internal factionalism when ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... This is not an automatic right of an individual, nor is any state ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement ... Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- song writer and folk musician who influenced the entire postwar development ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 23:31, 17 May 2023
- existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- American economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement ... Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was born on September 29, 1881, in ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- and activist, co-founder with Jane Addams of the Hull House social settlement ... Ellen Gates Starr was born in 1959 near Laona, Illinois, as the third ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- :This article is about the French utopian socialist. For the mathematician ... October 10, 1837) was a French utopian socialist and philosopher who advocated ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the ... Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium to a wealthy ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... Harvard University, West became a professor of Religion and director of African ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ... she gradually won support from both the public and from the courts ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- A Kibbutz (קיבוץ), plural Kibbutzim (קיבוצים), from the ... While the kibbutzim lasted for several generations as utopian communities ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which ... The term "Stalinism" was coined by Lazar Kaganovich. Although ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the ... Anarcho-syndicalism remains a popular and active school of Anarchism ...27 KB (3,759 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik revolution joined ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Most notable ... On account of that film, Leni Riefenstahl has been, and remains, controversial; ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- prominence as a war correspondent during the first World War. He and his ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... Dating from 1885, the city has had a brief, somewhat turbulent history ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- Italian Fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted ... These spirits are thought to be capable of providing helpful advice ...26 KB (3,720 words) - 15:24, 27 April 2023
- Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... to pass social reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Pravda (Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper ... ==Origins: The Vienna Pravda== The original Pravda ("The Truth ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- November 17, 1858) was a Welsh utopian socialist and social reformer, whose ... circumstances, and that placing man under the proper physical, moral, and ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- Тито, May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... Utopianism refers to the various ways in which people think about ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading ... The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- The Russian Provisional Government ( Временное правительство ... ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- 1903 – January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was ... Eric Blair was born on June 25, 1903, to an Anglo-Indian family in ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 14:51, 21 May 2024
- East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the name Lenin (April 22 ... Lenin's intellectual legacy as a Marxist theoretician included ...42 KB (6,401 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement ... The club got its name from their meeting place at the Dominican rue ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
