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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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
The single largest immediate civilian death toll under Bolshevik rule occurred during the Russian Civil War, widely estimated in secondary sources at roughly 7–12 million deaths, most of them civilian...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik state's subsequent actions were central to the break-up and dispersal of the Romanovs’ Fabergé imperial eggs: the state nationalized valuables, many eg...
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...
The precise number of Christians imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag solely "for practicing their faith" cannot be fixed from available sources; contemporary estimates of Christians imprisoned for conscien...
There is no single authoritative roster of "still-missing" Imperial Fabergé eggs because contemporary sources disagree about how many of the Imperial series remain unlocated and which specific example...
The Kuomintang was not simply a "left-wing" party in any single, stable sense; it contained genuine socialist and leftist currents—especially in its early, Soviet-aligned phase and in factions led by ...
Two different "Popular Front" entities appear in the reporting: the historical Popular Front movement of the 1930s in Britain (an electoral/political alliance shaped by Comintern policy) and the conte...
Perestroika sought to rescue and modernize Soviet socialism by introducing decentralization, market-like mechanisms and political openness, but by 1991 it had both undermined core socialist institutio...
Spain carried out a negotiated, legalistic dismantling of Francoism between 1975 and the early 1980s that combined top-down leadership from King Juan Carlos and reformers like Adolfo Suárez with negot...
Congress did not fully repeal the Communist Control Act of 1954; lawmakers dismantled and repealed much of the enforcement architecture that made the statute operational in the late 20th century, but ...
Federal and state courts since the 1970s have largely rebuffed efforts to use the Communist Control Act (CCA) of 1954 and mid‑century loyalty statutes as instruments to exclude political parties or ba...