Leading leader of moderate socialism, after the fall of the tsarist monarchy was minister of justice and war of the provisional government led by Prince Lvov. In June of 1917 he was named head of the government, position that held until the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution in November of that year. Biography of Alexander Kerensky Born:- 4 May 1881, Ulyanovsk, Russia Died:- 11 June 1970, New York City, New York, United States Education:- Saint
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Biography of Joseph Stalin
Soviet leader that governed ironically the USSR from 1929 (year when it was erected like successor of Lenin after the exile of Trotsky) until his death in 1953. At the price of bloody repression and immense sacrifices imposed on the population. Stalin was able to convert semi feudal Russia into an economic and military power capable of contributing decisively to the Allied victory in World War II (1939-1945). In the
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Biography of Vladimir Lenin:- In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the abyss between Czar Alexander III, defender of Byzantine absolutism of his ancestors, and the cultivated class had been so aggravated that the struggle against Tsarism had become, among the educated Russians , a duty and an honor. The political opposition and the revolutionary movement grew under the impulse of an “intelligentsia” that made acolytes in schools, in
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Biography of Gamal Abdel Nasser: – Political and military Egyptian, president of the Egyptian republic between 1954 and 1970. Son of a postal officer attended primary school in al-Khatatibah, a village in the Nile delta the one that had been destined. He continued his studies in Cairo and participated in frequent anti-British and anti-monarchist demonstrations, which led to his first admission to prison at age 17 accused of conspiracy. After
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José Lladro Dolz was born in 1928 in the small village of the Valencian garden of Almassera, son, together with his older brother, Juan (1926), and Benjamín, Vicente (1932), farmers Juan Lladro Cortina and Rosa Dolz Pastor. Biography of Jose Lladro Occupied in the agricultural work from the fourteen years, the two majors managed to study, however, the primary school and at the age of fifteen they went to work
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Biography of Quincy Jones: – As a musician he dedicated himself to rhythm and blues, and in the rest of his facets he has touched so many styles of music that it would be long to list them: they range from jazz to rap, going through everything imaginable. Biography of Quincy Jones Born:- 14 March 1933 (age 84), Chicago, Illinois, United States Children:- Rashida Jones, Kidada Jones, Jolie Jones Levine Spouse:- Peggy Lipton (m. 1974–1990), Ulla Jones (m. 1967–1974), Jeri
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Socialist thinker and revolutionary activist of German origin. Rarely has a philosopher’s work had such vast and tangible historical consequences as that of Karl Marx: from the Russian Revolution of 1917 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, half of humanity lived under political regimes that declared themselves heirs of his thought. The gradual and almost obvious failure of the supposed practical applications of his political and economic
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Italian political leader who established the fascist regime in Italy (1922-1943). After World War I (1914-1918), the crisis of liberal democracies, aggravated by the economic crash of 1929, favored a phenomenon that would characterize Europe between the two wars: the rise of totalitarianism. Its first manifestation was fascism, denomination that comes from the fasci di combattimento created in 1919 by Benito Mussolini, who seized with the power in 1922 and
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Western philosophy is based on the work of the three great Greek philosophers of antiquity: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. In spite of the unique relationship that united them (Socrates was teacher of Plato, who was in turn of Aristotle), the orientation of his thought took different ways, and it would correspond to Aristotle to finish the efforts of its teachers and to exert the most lasting influence , not only
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Biography of Nicolas II:- Last czar of Russia, in which the Romanov dynasty was extinguished. He acceded to the throne in 1894, happening to its father, Alexander III of Russia . In general he followed the autocratic policy of his predecessor, although it seems to have shown little interest and null aptitudes for the tasks of government. See Also: Biography of Solomon Due to incapacity or weakness, she fell under
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