VI. B. Eastern Europe and the People’s Democracies
→ The people’s democracies around the USSR —the USSR sets up communist regimes in the Central European states (Romania in 1945, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland in 1947, Czechoslovakia in 1948 …
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Work for the American Indians according to Tocqueville
Excerpt from De la démocratie en Amérique, by Tocqueville, on the conception of work by the Indians Illustration from 1914 of native North Americans “Men who have once given themselves …
II.A. The world is divided between two blocks
II. The cold war Cold War: A latent conflict (not fully manifested), marked by a bipolar rivalry and confrontation without leading to a general war.the Cold War is less a …
Summary of Multiculturalism, Charles Taylor
Multiculturalism is an increasingly important concept in today’s societies. The author Charles Taylor dedicates to it a book entitled “Multiculturalism. Difference and Democracy”. Here is a summary of the book. …
Alexis de Tocqueville – Wealth and Poverty
Why is Alexis de Tocqueville Often classified on the right? These extracts will give you the beginning of an answer. Solidarity between poor and rich in the future In a …
General Knowledge: Democracy
Abraham Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, gave this famous definition of democracy: ” Government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ While this image of democracy has remained …