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5 days ago · The Glorious Revolution [a] is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694.
4 days ago · Celâl Bayar (born May 15, 1882/83, Umurbey, near Bursa, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey]—died Aug. 22, 1986, Istanbul) was the third president of the Turkish Republic (1950–60), who initiated etatism, or a state-directed economy, in Turkey in the 1930s and who after 1946, as the leader of the Democrat Party, advocated a policy of private ...
14 hours ago · Experts have differing theories on why she became a cold-blooded killer - maybe a hatred of communism after her family lost their money in the Bolshevik revolution, or that she had been seduced by ...
3 days ago · v. t. e. Rosa Luxemburg ( Polish: Róża Luksemburg, [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ⓘ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ⓘ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the ...
2 days ago · The revolution ultimately led to the creation of the Soviet Union and significantly altered the course of the 20th century, polarizing opinions on socialism and communism worldwide.
2 days ago · ] Out of six members of the original Politburo during the October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge, Stalin himself was the only one who remained in the Soviet Union, alive. Four of the other five were executed; the fifth, Leon Trotsky , had been forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in 1929, but was assassinated in Mexico by ...
1 day ago · A neighborhood in the Kozhukhovsky Bay of the Moskva River with a large sign promoting the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, 1975. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party ...
