1. Do Asian Need Democracy
With the impregnable shadow transposed by the iron curtain gone, Eastern Europe was quick to open her doors, once again, to Western businessmen. ... Modern Romanian architecture has a lot of Western influence in it. ... Just a little further down the street there is an older movie theatre, an old communist residence, complete with columns by the front door, and a gothic cathedral "one of few that survived the communist regime. ...
The American Revolution A History In this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. One thing is quite certain, the American Revolution cannot be understood as simply battles won and oppression t...
In 1938 the Popular Front Party was created through a coalition of Communists, Radicals, and Socialists. ... His policies were similar to those of Aguirre, but the Popular Front coalition came apart soon after. ... He became the first constitutionally elected Marxist in the Western Hemisphere. ...
After his liberation Mandela traveled to Western governments, urging them to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa and to raise funds to help the ANC function as an "above-ground" political party. ... When the government restricted blacks from sitting at the front of buses, they became fed up and decided to take action, which initiated the bus boycott. ...
Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...