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Marxist–Leninist founding and ruling party of the Soviet Union
Bolshevik and later Soviet policy systematically suppressed and persecuted Christianity across denominations: sources report executions of clergy (for example “28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,2...
The symbol was created in 1931 for the , a anti- organization in , and was explicitly intended to oppose Nazism and to be usable for covering swastikas in propaganda actions . Since the late 20th cent...
Historians reject the old antisemitic canard that Bolshevism was a “Jewish” movement, but a recognizable minority of prominent early were of Jewish origin — enough to fuel myths but far from constitut...
The claim that a legal ban on communists running for American office was formally “lifted” is misleading: key post‑1950s statutes like the Communist Control Act of 1954 remain on the books but have be...
The short answer is no: historical evidence does not support a claim that “the Jews” killed Christians in as a collective or organized group; rather, Christians in Russia suffered mass repression prim...
From 1925 onward the Soviet Union and, after 1991, the Russian Federation conducted overt military invasions, occupations or annexations of multiple countries and territories including Afghanistan , C...
There is no verifiable, independently confirmed ; what reporting documents is a high-profile investigation and purge of senior figures — most prominently — that has sparked intense speculation about f...
The released King–Levison wiretap materials consist primarily of verbatim and paraphrased telephone transcripts from FBI surveillance of Stanley Levison’s phones that record strategic planning, fundra...
The primary federal statutes that functionally barred members of the Communist Party from holding U.S. public office were the and the , with the latter explicitly declaring the Communist Party unlawfu...
Mahmood Mamdani is best described as a left-leaning academic whose scholarship engages with anti-colonial critique, nation-state critique, and structural analyses of violence and power; available repo...
Joseph Stalin presided over a one-party, communist dictatorship—commonly described as Stalinism—marked by centralized party control, state ownership of the economy, and pervasive political repression ...
The claim that the was a "" does not hold up against the balance of historical evidence: its formal institutions—one-party rule, controlled elections, and centralized appointment systems—systematicall...
The core legal barrier targeting Communists in U.S. public life was the , which sought to strip the Communist Party of legal standing and to bar party members from certain representative roles; howeve...
Large-scale communist systems were implemented most prominently in the Soviet Union (USSR) and in later 20th‑century states such as the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambo...
The n Revolution of 1917 was not the work of a single actor but a two-stage collapse: a broad social-political uprising in that toppled the tsar and installed a provisional government, followed by an ...
The claim " was never racist" is false as an absolute statement: ideology officially rejected racism, but Stalin-era policies and practices produced racialized outcomes—including , nationalizing of tr...
The fall of 20th‑century communist regimes resulted from a complex interplay of , not a single cause. Contemporary analyses emphasize that reformist Soviet policies under Mikhail Gorbachev (glasnost a...
The term "" names the 1917 seizure of power in by ’s and derives from the party name "Bolsheviks," itself from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning "majority," a label that emerged after an early split in ...
Primary documentary evidence for takes the form of (notably and 10th Party Congress policy), contemporaneous church communications and encyclicals (most famously ), used to arrest clergy, and later te...
Longstanding poll data and multiple analyses show that is among the countries with unusually high public favorability toward the , a trend noted in major surveys and summaries of bilateral relations ....