American Government Study Guide Theocracy - a system of government in which God himself rules personally or through chosen representatives. Autocracy - rule by one whose will is supreme. Absolute Monarchy - a government headed by a hereditary ruler whose power is limited by a constitution and ...
There was a strong Communist influence during the Japanese Occupation which was a political awakening for the people of Singapore in view of the defeat of the British at the hands of the Japanese and the exploitative intents of the Japanese, and this communist influence helped Singapore to realize that colonial powers would never place a colony as its first priority and the best candidates to run a country were none other than its own people. ...
The "political awakening occasioned by the Algerian war" fomented "the birth of a new form of political thought and subjectivity in France, whose accomplishment was the great political, philosophical, and intellectual ruptures of the end of the 1960s" (p. 38). ...
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...
