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Hace 4 días · Price: £79.99. Thomas Paine, the most widely read political thinker in the late 18th century, played a notable role in the American Revolution, in the development of popular radicalism in Britain, and in the French Revolution. Many of his works appeared in both English and French, and a few in other European languages, and were widely ...
Hace 5 días · The German revolution of 1918–19 was one of the defining episodes of the 20th century. It was not only the outcome of a country’s defeat in the greatest war that humanity had ever witnessed, but also the result of the efforts of important social and political forces that had long strived for democracy, liberty, and social equality.
Hace 1 día · The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was a watershed moment in modern history. In the midst of World War I, a small, disciplined group of revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin seized control of the Russian state and began an experiment in building the world‘s first socialist society. The Bolsheviks‘ improbable rise to power and the far ...
Hace 5 días · Arab Spring, wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their regimes in quick succession, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab ...
Hace 4 días · The First World War marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a period of political and social turmoil in the former Russian Empire. The February Revolution of 1917 served as the catalyst for the Russian Revolution. The initial uprising centered on Petrograd, the countrys capital at the time. This topic is frequently asked in various exams like Railways and UPSC and state PSCs. To ...
Hace 5 días · The revolution of 1688 was the first modern revolution. Like more recent revolutions, it was violent, popular, and divisive. It was not an aristocratic coup or a Dutch invasion, but a popular rejection of James II’s French-inspired, Catholic, absolutist modernisation of the state in favour of an alternative Anglo-Dutch vision that prized ...
Hace 5 días · Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81. The Transition in the Tenure and Exploitation of Land from Ottoman Rule to Independence. Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1985, ISBN: 9780873383165; 339pp.; Price: £50.00. When Otho of Bavaria, the young king-designate of newly independent Greece, first stepped on Greek soil at Nauplion in ...
