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21French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars — ▪ European history a series of wars between 1792 and 1815 that ranged France against shifting alliances of other European powers and that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe. The revolutionary wars, which may for… …
22Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization — ▪ Balkan revolutionary organization Macedonian Vatreshna Makedonska Revolutsionna Organizatsiya , Bulgarian Vŭtreshnata Makedono Odrinska Revolutsionna Organizatsiya secret revolutionary society that operated in the late 19th and early… …
23Guinea, People’s Revolutionary Republic Of — (PRRG) After colonial rule by France ended in 1958, revolutionary leader Ahmed Sékou Touré oversaw the transition of Guinea to socialism and frequently propounded a Marxist course for the country. The experiment with socialism formally ended… …
24Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement — noun a Marxist Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia • Syn: ↑Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, ↑MRTA •… …
25political system — Introduction the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… …
26communism — /kom yeuh niz euhm/, n. 1. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. 2. (often cap.) a system of social organization in… …
27socialism — /soh sheuh liz euhm/, n. 1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. 2. procedure or… …
28colonialism, Western — ▪ politics Introduction a political economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European… …
29Mikhail Bakunin — This article is about the Russian anarchist. For the television character, see Characters of Lost. Mikhail Bakunin Born Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin May 30, 1814(1814 05 30) Pryamukhino (near …
30History of anarchism — Part of the Politics series on Anarchism …
