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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 ...
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  • The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that ... The foremost writer among proponents was the American Walter Rauschenbusch ...
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  • Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • activist, women's suffrage fighter, socialist, and journalist. She worked ... Mary White Ovington was born on April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... Florence Kelley was born on September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
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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 ...
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  • The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... It was a reformist movement that influenced British and American architecture ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...
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  • The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...
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  • ; April 4, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – June 12, 1999 in Chicago ... A brilliant scholar, he invested greatly in his students, brought ...
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  • and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Comintern (Communist International, also known as the Third International ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...
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  • The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...
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  • The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian ... Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Bolsheviks ( Большеви́к bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ...
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  • 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...
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  • | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...
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  • lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She was ... Crystal Eastman was born on June 25, 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts ...
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  • The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...
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  • pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Prize for 1905), Fried became interested in the peace movement and co-founded ...
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  • 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...
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  • Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... Socialism developed as a political ideology in the nineteenth century ...
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  • labor and political leader. He was born in England, to a Jewish family ... Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ...
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  • David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973) was the first ... changed. His compassion and respect for the rights of the Arab residents ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... It should be noted that the term Mao Zedong Thought has always been ...
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  • languages: Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...
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  • who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...
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  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...
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  • The Fourth International (FI) was a communist international organization ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...
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  • Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża ... Luxemburg was a German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher ...
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  • | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...
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  • Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, film ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...
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  • Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... modern art movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ...
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  • author, and government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...
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  • The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech represented a milestone in his ...
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  • educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...
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  • The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...
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  • The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...
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  • The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... experienced famine and economic collapse. The demoralized Russian Army suffered ...
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  • Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported ... The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ...
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