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1 day ago · The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, [3] was a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Nations, [4] [5] [6 ...
3 days ago · Website. jbs .org. The John Birch Society ( JBS) is an American right-wing political advocacy group. [1] Founded in 1958, it is anti-communist, [2] [3] supports social conservatism, [2] [3] and is associated with ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populist, and right-wing libertarian ideas. [12]
1 day ago · COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party USA, where Hoover ordered observation and pursuit of targets that ranged from suspected citizen spies to larger celebrity figures, such as Charlie Chaplin, whom he saw as spreading Communist Party propaganda.
5 days ago · The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a watershed moment in modern history. The once-mighty Soviet Union, which had dominated the region for decades and posed a formidable challenge to the capitalist West during the Cold War, disintegrated almost overnight.
4 days ago · Gorbachev’s reforms meanwhile weakened his own communist party and allowed power to shift to the constituent governments of the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, giving rise to 15 newly independent nations, including a Russia with an anticommunist leader.
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5 days ago · 1) It was a war in which 'Christianity was appropriated by Western propagandists and policy-makers for their anti-communist arsenal' (p. 2), nowhere more so than in the USA. But in addition, as this volume demonstrates, Christianity was not simply a tool of psychological warfare.
2 days ago · Mendes also traces the increasing opposition to Israel as Third Worldsism took hold on the non-Communist Left. He follows this with a fine analysis of Trotsky’s changing views and the development of Trotskyism’s anti-Zionism after Trotsky’s murder, providing something of a country by country analysis.
