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On January 9, 1905, a vast but orderly crowd of Russian workers approached the Winter Palace to present Czar Nicholas II with a list of both economic and political grievances. The petition included among its demands an eight-hour workday, increased wages, improved working conditions, and an immediate end …
Like most revolutions, the Russian Revolution of 1917 had a combination of political and social causes. At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was the last of the great powers to retain an autocratic system of government. Educated Russians, many of them influenced by liberal ideas from …
Fernando (Nicola) Sacco (1891–1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) are best remembered as the victims of injustice following the wave of U.S. antiradical persecution in the years immediately following World War I. Both men were Italian immigrants with revolutionary anarchist political beliefs. It is in the context of this …
Prince Saionji Kimmochi (or Kinmochi) was born into the Takudaijii kuge (Japanese court nobility) and was later adopted by the Saionji kuge. He grew up near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and was a childhood friend of the emperor Meiji. Saionji participated in politics from an early age, …
António de Oliveira Salazar was prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 and the creator of the New State (Estado Novo). Salazar was born on April 28, 1889, in Santa Comba Dao, near Viseu, in central Portugal, the son of an estate manager. He received his education …
The San Remo Treaty was signed at the San Remo Conference in April 1920 following World War I. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles ended World War I but did not resolve many complex issues surrounding the end of hostilities. The San Remo Conference, held in April 1920, was …
Augusto César Sandino was the supreme chief of the Defending Army of Nicaraguan National Sovereignty (Ejército Defensor de la Soberanía Nacional de Nicaragua), which waged a rebellion against U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua from May 1927 to January 1933. To his supporters, Sandino was a patriotic hero and …
The Sarekat Islam (Islamic Association), established in 1911, was one of the earliest political parties to have broad appeal in Indonesia.There was need for an organized merchant association in the face of competition from the Chinese mercantile community. A religious motivation was also present because of increasing proselytizing …
The Schlieffen Plan was one of the most controversial military plans ever conceived. Devised as imperial Germany’s blueprint for victory in World War I, it ironically contributed to Germany’s defeat. The Schlieffen Plan was named after its creator, Count Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1912), third chief of the German …
Often known as the “Monkey Trial,” this face-off between free speech and state educational prerogatives pitted “modern” science against “old-time” religion. A major fault line in U.S. society was exposed when two of the United States’ most famous figures—lawyer Clarence Darrow and three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan—clashed …
The Scottsboro Boys, as they were called by American newspapers, were nine young African-American men, all of them between the ages of 13 and 21, who became the defendants in an infamous, overtly racist criminal case. On March 25, 1931, a fracas broke out between white and black …
The practice of slavery has occurred in many civilizations throughout human history and was caused by social stratification, economic factors, and high population density. Perhaps most noteworthy of places it occurred were ancient Egypt, China, India, Greece, and the Roman Empire. During the Roman Empire alone, it is …
The term Southeast Asia came to be used during World War II, when the region was placed under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900–79). It includes the area to the east of the Indian subcontinent and to the south of China. In 2006 the countries of the …
Small-n and case studies are two methods of qualitative research used in political science and other social sciences. Small-n studies (with n referring to the number of subjects or cases in a study) are the opposite of large-N quantitative projects that involve significant amounts of data or observations. …
Tafari Makonnen was born in Ethiopia in 1892, the son of a general who was a trusted adviser and grand-nephew of Menelik II. In 1911 he married Wayzaro Menen. As Ras (prince) Tafari, he quickly became a rival of Menelik’s grandson for the throne. The grandson was unreliable …
Known as the father of classical economics, Scottish economist and rhetorician Adam Smith (1723–1790) was one of the two leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment. The other was his close friend, David Hume. Smith is best remembered today for his groundbreaking work, An Inquiry into the Nature and …
Leopold Senghor was born into a wealthy merchant family in 1906 in a small fishing village south of Dakar in present-day Senegal. He was educated in Catholic mission schools. Senghor studied in Paris on a state scholarship and during the 1930s taught in several French lycées. He was …
Social cognition is the study of how people make sense of other people and themselves. As an area of study, social cognition relates directly to the study of attitudes, persuasion, stereotyping, and small group behavior. Political cognition, a subset of social cognition, is the study of how people …
Shandong (Shantung) is a province on China’s northern coast. It is the birthplace of two great sages, Confucius and Mencius, and is therefore called China’s Holy Land. Dramatically weakened after its defeat by Japan in 1895, Germany set off the “scramble for China” in 1898 by seizing Jiaozhou …
Why do some communities function well, while others do not? The concept of social capital recently flourished in political and social sciences, because it provides an explanation for prosperous and democratic social development. The definition of social capital is somewhat ambiguous, but an accepted definition is that it …
