http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/periodictable.html - 2 views
Frank Dikotter - Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastroph... - 0 views
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"Frank Dikotter discusses his book, "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958--1962," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikotter's chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives had long been restricted. More lectures at http://forum-network.org"
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Marxist interpretation of Russian Rev - 0 views
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"THE GARBAGE HEAP OF HISTORY.: The October Revolution: was it a coup? Was the October Revolution a coup? In an attempt to discredit the Bolsheviks, no effort has been spared to falsify the historical record. The usual trick is to describe the October Revolution as a coup d'état, that is, a movement carried out by a small minority using conspiratorial methods behind the backs of the majority. The Bolsheviks, so the argument goes, seized power from the Provisional Government which issued from the February Revolution and which, supposedly, represented the democratic will of the people. If only Lenin's "conspiracy" had not prospered, the story goes, Russia would have entered on the road of Western parliamentary democracy and lived happily ever after. This fairy story has been repeated so many times that it has been uncritically accepted by many. Like any other fairy story its purpose is to lull the wits to sleep. And also like any other fairy story, it is convincing only to very small children."
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"THE GARBAGE HEAP OF HISTORY.: The October Revolution: was it a coup? Was the October Revolution a coup? In an attempt to discredit the Bolsheviks, no effort has been spared to falsify the historical record. The usual trick is to describe the October Revolution as a coup d'état, that is, a movement carried out by a small minority using conspiratorial methods behind the backs of the majority. The Bolsheviks, so the argument goes, seized power from the Provisional Government which issued from the February Revolution and which, supposedly, represented the democratic will of the people. If only Lenin's "conspiracy" had not prospered, the story goes, Russia would have entered on the road of Western parliamentary democracy and lived happily ever after. This fairy story has been repeated so many times that it has been uncritically accepted by many. Like any other fairy story its purpose is to lull the wits to sleep. And also like any other fairy story, it is convincing only to very small children."
The History Place - The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Chapter Index - 0 views
BBC History - Fidel Castro - 1 views
The Sukarno Era of Indonesian History - 0 views
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The Independence Movement is almost synonomous with the political leader Sukarno.
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In 1928 he helped found the Partei Nasional Indonesia (PNI), the Indonesian Nationalist Party
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Sukarno came to the attention of the Dutch authorities and he was arrested in 1931 and sent into exile to the island of Flores.
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Mwalimu Nyerere | Julius Nyerere; Life Times Legacy - 0 views
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. Nyerere was the first African head of state to retire voluntarily.
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stepped down because he realized that his socialist policies of communal ownership of farms and state ownership of services were not working.
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Tanzania slipped from being the largest exporter of food in Africa to the biggest importer of food. However,
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Fidel Castro History Archive - 1 views
Modern History Sourcebook: Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism - 2 views
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Juan Domingo Perón is among the most contentious figures in the modern political history of South America. On the one hand, many commentators are prepared to argue that he was a fascist, but others see in Perónism, which long retained the support of the Argentine working class, real elements of a social justice movement combined with severely compromised leadership.