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… socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … Leap Forward (1958-61), when an estimated 16-45 million died. He doubts grew during the Cultural Revolution …

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … liberators in the age of revolution. Britons regularly bandied their slave trade ban as proof that they remained at … to remove humanitarian concerns from U.S. policy proved futile. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's realism …

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … 2011, residents of Sofia woke up to find the Soviet army soldiers reincarnated into American comic and pop art figures ( … symbols from medieval times with allusion of the glorious future of communism. Yet, after 1989, this monument …

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