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One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 - April 14, 1973) was born in Timisoara, then in Hungary, to a family of some landed property. At the University of Budapest he followed a program in classical philology with a doctorate on Plato and Longinus and aesthetic theory in Antiquity, and read widely. In the following years he taught in Hungary at the secondary school level, travelled in Greece and Italy and followed courses at Greifswald, Heidelberg and the Univer ...

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Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. Bertolt Brecht - Life and career. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Brecht studied medicine and worked briefly as an orderly in a hospital in Munich during World War I. After the war he moved to Berlin where an influential critic, Herbert Ihering, brought him to the attention of a public longing for modern theater. Brecht's first two plays, Baal and Drums in the Night< ...

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• Bertolt Brecht - Major works
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Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. The term has come back into fashion since the collapse of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West. The region is generally considered to contain (from North to South): Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Slovenia and more rarely Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovi ...

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• Central Europe - Culturally Central-European
• Central Europe - Central Europe behind the Iron Curtain
• Central Europe - The new members of the European Union
• Central Europe - Remnants of the Holy Roman Empire

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The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. Communist Party of Great Britain - Formation. The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communist parties across the world. The CPGB was formed by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties: the British Socialist Party, the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist Labour Party and the South Wales Socialist Socie ...

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• Communist Party of Great Britain - Formation
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• Communist Party of Great Britain - The 1940s and 50s
• Communist Party of Great Britain - 1960s and 1970s: Decline of the party
• Communist Party of Great Britain - 1977-1991: breakup of the party

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The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK; Korean chosŏn'gŭl: 조선로동당; hanja: 朝鮮勞動黨; McCune-Reischauer: Chosŏn Rodong-dang; revised: Joseon Rodong-dang) is the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea. It is also called the Korean Workers' Party (KWP). The WPK has been the ruling party in the DPRK since 1946, and has had only two leaders, Kim Il-sung (1946–1994) and his son, Kim Jong-il (since 1994). The party is widely viewed by foreigner ...

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• Workers' Party of Korea - Origins
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• Workers' Party of Korea - Purge of the Domestic faction
• Workers' Party of Korea - The August Incident and aftermath
• Workers' Party of Korea - Sino-Soviet Split and North Korea
• Workers' Party of Korea - Juche and Kim Il-sung as supreme leader
• Workers' Party of Korea - The rise of Kim Jong-il
• Workers' Party of Korea - Structure
• Workers' Party of Korea - Symbol
• Workers' Party of Korea - External link

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Wolf Biermann (15 November 1936 -) is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident. He was the son of a German Communist killed by the Nazi government during World War II. In 1953, at the age of 17, Biermann decided to emigrate from West to East Germany where he believed he could live out his Communist ideals. In 1960 Biermann met composer Hanns Eisler, who adopted the young artist as a protégé. Eisler used his influence with the East German cultural elite to promote the songwriter's career, but his death in 19 ...

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Arthur Koestler (Hungarian: Kösztler Artur; September 5, 1905 – March 3, 1983) was a journalist, novelist, political activist, social philosopher, and science writer. Born Hungarian and a naturalized British subject, he wrote a number of popular books, including Arrow in the Blue (the first volume of his autobiography); The Yogi and the Commissar (a collection of essays, many dealing with Communism); The Sleepwalkers (A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe); The Act of Creation; and Including:

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• Arthur Koestler - Women
• Arthur Koestler - Mixed legacy
• Arthur Koestler - Politics
• Arthur Koestler - Journalism
• Arthur Koestler - Science
• Arthur Koestler - Judaism
• Arthur Koestler - Cultural influence
• Arthur Koestler - Bibliography
• Arthur Koestler - Autobiography
• Arthur Koestler - Biographies
• Arthur Koestler - Books by Koestler excluding autobiography
• Arthur Koestler - Writings as a contributor

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations ...

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• Christian communism - Origin of Christian communism
• Christian communism - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Christian communism - True Levellers
• Christian communism - Christian communists
• Christian communism - Thomas J. Haggerty
• Christian communism - Controversy
• Christian communism - Communism or Communalism
• Christian communism - Free will
• Christian communism - Government
• Christian communism - Establishing Christian communism

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Votes are people of Votia in Ingria (part of modern day northwestern Russia, roughly (south)west of Saint Petersburg, near, and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva). Their own ethnic name is Vadjalain (plural: Vadjalaizõt). The Finno-Ugric Votic language spoken by Votes is close to extinction. As a distinct people, Votes have become practically extinct after Stalinist dispersion to Soviet provinces far away — as punishment for alleged disloyalt ...

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Animal Farm is a satirical novel (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm they live on and run it themselves, only to have it corrupted into a brutal tyranny on its own. It was written during World War II and published in 1945, although it was not widely successful until the late 1950s. Animal Farm is a thinly veiled critique and satire of Soviet totalitarianism. Many events in the book are based on ones from the S ...

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• Animal Farm - Plot references to real events
• Animal Farm - Characters
• Animal Farm - The pigs
• Animal Farm - The humans
• Animal Farm - The other animals
• Animal Farm - Significance
• Animal Farm - Post-publication views of the book
• Animal Farm - ISBN numbers

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Socialism Part of the Politics series History of socialism Democratic socialism Christian socialism Communism Libertarian socialism Social democracy Egalitarianism Democracy Equality of outcome Class struggle Proletarian revolution Marxism Anarchism Trade unionism Internationalism Utilitarianism Mixed economy Socialist economics Soci ...

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• Socialism - A note on usage
• Socialism - What distinguishes the various types of socialism
• Socialism - An economic system
• Socialism - A state that exists or has existed or may exist
• Socialism - Socialism as transition from capitalism
• Socialism - Socialism and the mixed economy
• Socialism - Opposition and criticisms of socialism; arguments for and against
• Socialism - References and further reading

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Korea refers to South Korea and North Korea together, which were a unified country until 1948. It is situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, bordering China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is populated by a homogeneous ethnic group, the Koreans, who speak a distinct language (Korean) and use the unique script Hangul. Korea was partitioned into two halves following World War II. South Korea is now a capitalist liberal democracy, and sometimes referred to simply as "Korea". North Korea remains a Communist state, of ...

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• Korea - Culture and philosophy
• Korea - History
• Korea - Gojoseon
• Korea - The Three Kingdoms
• Korea - Balhae and Unified Silla
• Korea - Goryeo
• Korea - Joseon
• Korea - Japanese occupation
• Korea - Division
• Korea - Civil war and hopes for reunification
• Korea - Geography
• Korea - Demographics
• Korea - Korea in sporting events
• Korea - Further readings
• Korea - Special characters

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In comparative religion, fundamentalism has come to refer to several different understandings of religious thought and practice, including literal interpretation of sacred texts such as the Bible or the Quran and sometimes also anti-modernist movements in various religions. In some ways religious fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon, characterized by a sense of embattled alienation in the midst of the surrounding culture, even where the culture may be nominally influenced by the adherents' religion. The term can also re ...

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• Fundamentalism - Mormon views
• Fundamentalism - Islamic views
• Fundamentalism - Non-Abrahamic religions
• Fundamentalism - Non-religious fundamentalism
• Fundamentalism - Arguments in favor of fundamentalist positions
• Fundamentalism - Criticism of the fundamentalist position
• Fundamentalism - Fundamentalism and politics

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History of communism Schools of communism Marxism · Leninism Trotskyism · Maoism Council communism Religious communism Communist parties Communist International World Communist Movement Communist revolution World revolution Communist states The Soviet Union People's Republic of China Cuba · Vietnam Laos · North Korea Related subjects Socialism Planned economy Historical mater ...

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• Communism - Criticism of communism
• Communism - Comparing Communism to communism
• Communism - Schools of communism
• Communism - Organizations and people

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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising or simply the Hungarian Revolt, was an anti-Soviet revolt in Hungary lasting from 23 October to 4 November 1956. The revolt was suppressed by Soviet troops, and to a much smaller degree the Hungarian ÁVH (Államvédelmi Hatóság, 'State Protection Authority'). Anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000 Hungarian rebels and 7,000 Soviet troops were killed, thousands more were wounded, and nearly a quarter of a million left the country as refugees. The revolution le ...

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• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - Overview
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• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - What happened
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - Prelude
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - 23 October to 3 November
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - 4 November onwards
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - Why it happened
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution - Motivations

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The airbrush is a small, highly precise spray gun for applying paint. It was invented in 1879 by Abner Peeler, in Iowa, USA. This first airbrush used a hand-operated compressor, and the inventor patented it "for the painting of watercolors and other artistic purposes". However this first device was rather crude and it took a number of years of further development before a practical device was developed, which was marketed by Liberty Walkup. The first modern type airbrush came along in 1893, presented by Thayer and Chandler art materia ...

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• Airbrush - Spray guns

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Anti-communism is the opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either an ideological or pragmatic basis. Anti-communism is a catch-all phrase which defines any opposition to communism as a philosophical basis for a political and social alliance. The term came to have a global meaning during the Cold War, when the powers of Western society sought to coordinate an opposition to the apparent militarist expansion of the Soviet Union. For much of the period between 1950 and 1991 anti-communism was one of the ...

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• Anti-communism - Background
• Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists
• Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism
• Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War
• Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism
• Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism
• Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists
• Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism
• Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory
• Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories
• Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments
• Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism
• Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists
• Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists
• Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents
• Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders
• Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement
• Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists

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Witold Lutosławski (IPA: /vitɔld lutɔswavski/; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century. He was possibly the most significant Polish composer since Chopin, and was the pre-eminent musician of his country during the last three decades of the century. During his lifetime he earned a large number of international awards and prizes, includ ...

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• Witold Lutosławski - Maturity
• Witold Lutosławski - International renown
• Witold Lutosławski - Final years
• Witold Lutosławski - Music
• Witold Lutosławski - Folk influence
• Witold Lutosławski - Pitch organisation
• Witold Lutosławski - Aleatory technique
• Witold Lutosławski - Late style
• Witold Lutosławski - Selected compositions
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• Witold Lutosławski - Concertante Works
• Witold Lutosławski - Vocal/Choral Works
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• Witold Lutosławski - Film Music

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Louis Pierre Althusser (October 16, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading academic proponent of the French Communist Party and his arguments were a response to multiple threats to the ideological foundations of that socialist project. These included both the threat from an empiricism which was beginning to invade Marxist sociology and economics, and a threa ...

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• Louis Althusser - The 'Epistemological Break'
• Louis Althusser - Practices
• Louis Althusser - Contradiction and Overdetermination
• Louis Althusser - Ideological State Apparatuses
• Louis Althusser - Influence

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In the communist or Marxist-Leninist movement, an anti-revisionist is one who favors a strict interpretation of the ideology in accordance with the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. The term is generally seen as positive, not pejorative, and used in self-description by the "anti-revisionists" themselves. To an anti-revisionist, the populist/People's War core of Maoism and the anti-fascism of Stalin's policies are seen as fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism that cannot be abandoned lest the principles of communism ...

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