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I know there was a Revolution in the 1910s. There was also a victory for anti-clerical forces. Mexico was one of the few countries that took Spanish republican refugees after the Spanish Civil War. It is also where Trotsky went and where he was killed. In a lecture on the US Supreme Court...

What could happen after 1900 to make the Liberal Party become Radical and still one of the two major political parties by 1910-1913 and after? Further, how would this make Britain different from IOTL?

Hello everyone. I doubt this topic will get much attention thanks to its rather obscure subject matter, and while most of us are probably somewhat familiar with the infamous Jan van Leiden and the tragic Anabaptist/Melchiorite Münster rebellion, I've been trying to find out more about similar...

I've been reading about the French Revolution, which I previously had essentially no knowledge of, and I'm a bit confused. From what I understand, in the span of a few years, the concepts originally proposed by the left became far right concepts. I know there were several instances where the...

Here is a list of some of the radical “nationalist” ( I do not like to say right wing or left wing”) groups in American history:, the Natavists; KKK; McCarthyism, John Birch Society; American Party; Know Nothings, Minute Men groups Aryan; Charles Coughhlin. Besides wrapping themselves in the...

Enough talk about Alexander the Great and his short stature... Gaius Marius of Arpinum is famous for the so-called Marian reforms and his seven consulships, hailed as the 3rd Founder of Rome, and uncle to Caesar Dictator. But how many of his reforms are true and what were their significance...

What if Islam started out as a Christian Nestorian sect? It seems logial since Islam draws a significant amount of its theological basis from the Judeo-Christian tradion. Accepting both the old and new testaments as cannonical and the Judeo-Christian god firmly established as the one single God...

of radical ideologies, such as Hitler and Stalin? Can you guys elaborate?

Has anybody yet seen the documentary "Das radikal Böse" (literally "The radical evil" by the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It premiered in German cinemas two weeks ago. It deals with the so called Einsatzgruppen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, the...

How was it organized? Who appointed the military governors? What was the extent of Congress's control over radical reconstruction?

How important were the radical abolitionist to the start of the Civil War? Can blame be placed at their feet for pushing the United States over the cliff and into the bloodiest war in our nations history?

Hi, I'm currently writing an essay on radical change e.g. French Revolution, Communist Revolution etc. - revolutions that change the social fabric of society, so not radical change in the sense of minor politcal revolutions such as the American Revolution Is it plausible to say radical change...

Hi, I'm currently doing some research for a thesis on radical change. Can anyone point me to examples of societies in history that underwent radical change (i.e. major social revolution e.g. French Revolution) but without the use of violence? Thank you

This comes from "A History of Education" by Mulhern, second copy right 1959, soon after Sputnik and the 1958 National Defense Education Act, replaced the US's liberal education with the German model of education for technology, for military and industrial purpose. More leisure time is a...

Every time I hear the term 'radical' being used in the media it refers to something in a negative light. For instance I read it earlier today where Obama was being called 'the most radical president America has ever had' meant in a completely derogatory way. (I don't agree with this statement...

In the aftermath of the end of the Napoleonic War, the ending of which left a great many men unemployed (the British government tending to disband regiments left, right and centre – no change there then) and many more who were unemployable due to wounds received, there was an economic depression...

Andy Grove, former Intel chief, writes at length about how America has lost its economic way. An excerpt: "Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the...

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen...