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2 days ago · France - Jacobin Dictatorship, Revolution, Republic: One of the changes affected by the Convention was the creation of the French republican calendar to replace the Gregorian calendar, which was viewed as nonscientific and tainted with religious associations. The Revolutionary calendar was proclaimed on 14 Vendémiaire, year II (October 5, 1793), but its starting point was set to be about a ...
4 days ago · t. e. Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation.
5 days ago · Universe - Copernican Revolution, Astronomy, Cosmology: The Renaissance brought a fresh spirit of inquiry to the arts and sciences. Explorers and travelers brought home the vestiges of classical knowledge that had been preserved in the Muslim world and the East, and in the 15th century Aristarchus’ heliocentric hypothesis again came to be debated in certain educated circles.
4 days ago · Soviet Union - Communism, Revolution, USSR: Lenin and his associates viewed Russia as no more than a springboard from which to launch a global civil war. They feared that if the revolution remained confined to backward, agrarian Russia it would perish under the combined onslaught of the foreign “bourgeoisie” and the domestic peasantry. In their view it was essential to carry the revolution ...
1 day ago · 1999–2003: The Second Liberian Civil War against the government of Liberia. 1999–2009: The Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia. 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran. 1999–2000: The Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia.
1 day ago · KGB (full English name Committee for State Security), foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. The KGB’s responsibilities also included the protection of the country’s political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population.
1 day ago · France - Revolution, Directory, Monarchy: The new regime, referred to as the Directory, began auspiciously in October 1795 with a successful constitutional plebiscite and a general amnesty for political prisoners. But as one of its final acts the Convention added the “Two-thirds Decree” to the package, requiring for the sake of continuity that two-thirds of its deputies must sit by right ...
