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Vanguard Group (anarchist)
The Vanguard Group was an anarchist political group active during the 1930s, which published the periodical ''Vanguard Journal, Vanguard: Journal of Libertarian Communism'', led by Sam Dolgoff (aka Sam Weiner, editor of ''Vanguard''). Vanguard was for a time, during the 1930s, the leading English-language anarchist youth organization in New York City. History In 1927, the Rising Youth Group was founded in New York City, New York by Sara and Elizabeth Goodman, two young Jewish anarchism, Jewish anarchists frustrated with the older generation. By 1929 the group had dissolved and were succeeded by the Bronx-based Friends of Freedom, which became the Vanguard Group in 1932. Despite this new group's inheritance of its predecessor's frustration with their elders, the articles published in their periodical still bore a resemblance to those being published by ''Road to Freedom (journal), Road to Freedom'' and they were themselves inspired by older Jewish anarchist theoreticians such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Youth Group
Rising or RISING may refer to: Film and TV * "Rising", 2001 television series episode, see List of Dark Angel episodes, list of ''Dark Angel'' episodes * Rising (Stargate Atlantis), "Rising" (''Stargate Atlantis''), television series episode * Rising (web series), ''Rising'' (web series), an American daily news and opinion web series Music Albums * Rising (Donovan album), ''Rising'' (Donovan album), 1990 * Rising (Great White album), ''Rising'' (Great White album), 2009 * Rising (Mxmtoon album), ''Rising'' (Mxmtoon album), 2022 * Rising (Rainbow album), ''Rising'' (Rainbow album), 1976 * Rising (Stuck Mojo album), ''Rising'' (Stuck Mojo album) or the title song, 1998 * Rising (Yoko Ono album), ''Rising'' (Yoko Ono album) or the title song, 1995 * ''Rising'', by the Go Set, 2008 * ''Rising'', by Seraphim (band), Seraphim, 2007 * ''Rising'', by the Up, 2010 Songs * "Rising", by Lhasa from ''Lhasa (album), Lhasa'', 2009 * "Rising", by Lovebites from ''Clockwork Immortality'', 2018 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Revolution
Social revolutions are sudden changes in the structure and nature of society. These revolutions are usually recognized as having transformed society, economy, culture, philosophy, and technology along with but more than just the political systems. Overview Theda Skocpol in her article "France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions" states that social revolution is a "combination of thoroughgoing structural transformation and massive national and class upheavals". She comes to this definition by combining Samuel P. Huntington's definition that it "is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government activities and policies" and Vladimir Lenin's, which is that revolutions are "the festivals of the oppressed... ho actas creators of a new social order". She also states that this definition excludes many revolutions, because they fail to meet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consequences Of The Attack On Pearl Harbor
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,40people were killed Its most significant consequence was the entrance of the United States into World War II. The US had previously been officially neutral and considered an isolationist country but subsequently entered the Pacific War, and after Italy's declaration of war and Germany's declaration of war shortly after the attack, the Battle of the Atlantic and the European theatre of war. Following the attack, the US interned 120,000 Japanese Americans, 11,000 German Americans, and 3,000 Italian Americans. American public opinion prior to the attack From the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, to December 2, 1941, the United States was officially neutral, as it was bound by the Neutrality Acts not to get involved in the conflicts raging in Europe and Asia. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, public opinion in the United States had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalinism
Stalinism (, ) is the Totalitarianism, totalitarian means of governing and Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953), 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Satellite state#Post-World War II, Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalinism included the creation of a Rule of man, one man totalitarian police state, rapid Industrialization in the Soviet Union, industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, forced Collective farming, collectivization of agriculture, intensification of the class struggle under socialism, intensification of class conflict, a Joseph Stalin's cult of personality, cult of personality, and subordination of the interests of foreign Communist party, communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which Stalinism deemed the leading Vanguardism, vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. After Stalin's dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Challenge Group
The Challenge Group is an international air cargo group. It employs 850 staff members across several countries and has a fleet of eight Boeing 747 and Boeing 757, 767 aircraft. The group comprises three airlines, Challenge Airlines IL, Challenge Airlines BE and Challenge Airlines MT. Challenge Airlines IL, (International Air Transport Association, IATA code: 5C; International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO code: ICL) established as CAL Cargo Airlines in 1976 is an Israeli cargo airline based in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. Challenge Airlines BE (International Air Transport Association, IATA code: X7; International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO code: CHG) established as ACE Air Cargo Europe and in 2018 rebranded as ACE Belgium Freighters, is a Belgian cargo airline based at Liège Airport. The carrier operates air cargo services throughout Europe, America, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Challenge Airlines launched service operations in mid-2019. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Bluestein
Abraham Bluestein (1909–1997) was an American anarchist who participated in the Spanish Civil War. Life and career Abraham Bluestein, known as Abe, was born in Philadelphia on November 1, 1909, to Russian immigrants Mendel (Max) and Esther Bluestein. His parents had been active Russian revolutionaries and fled the country after his father killed a tsarist soldier. In the United States, they were involved in the organization of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and often discussed anarchism at home. While in grade school, his parents transferred him to the Stelton Modern School on the anarchist Ferrer Colony in New Jersey. He attended public high school in New Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated from City College of New York. In college, he joined the anarchist Vanguard Group, where he met Selma Cohen, who became his wife. In the 1930s, he edited Vanguard's self-titled ''Vanguard'' publication and ''Challenge''. After college, Bluestein worked as a teacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich (August 4, 1931 – February 16, 2006) was an American historian specializing in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for his entire career, from 1961 to his retirement as distinguished professor of history in 1999. He wrote ten books, mostly about anarchism, including topics such as the 1886 Haymarket Riot, the 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti case, the 1921 Kronstadt naval base rebellion, and an oral history of the movement in the United States. As an ally of the movement's major figures, he sought to challenge the portrayal of anarchists as amoral and violent, and collected papers from these figures that he donated as a 20,000-item collection to the Library of Congress. Early and personal life Paul Avrich was born August 4, 1931, in Brooklyn to parents of Jewish and Ukrainian heritage from Odessa. His parents – Rose (née Zapol) Avrich and Murray Avrich – w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe. The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The treaty was the culmination of negotiations around Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–1941)#1938–1939 deal discussions, the 1938–1939 deal discussions, after tripartite discussions between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France had broken down. The Soviet-German pact committed both sides to neither aid nor ally itself with an enemy of the other for the following 10 years. Under the Secret Protocol, Second Polish Republic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, also referred to as the American Communist Party mainly during the 20th century, is a communist party in the United States. It was established in 1919 in the wake of the Russian Revolution, emerging from the far-left wing of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). The CPUSA sought to establish socialism in the U.S. via the principles of Marxism–Leninism, aligning itself with the Communist International (Comintern), which was controlled by the Soviet Union. The CPUSA's early years were marked by factional struggles and clandestine activities. The U.S. government viewed the party as a subversive threat, leading to mass arrests and deportations in the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920. Despite this, the CPUSA expanded its influence, particularly among industrial workers, immigrants, and African Americans. In the 1920s, the party remained a small but militant force. During the Great Depres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party Of America
The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899. In the first decades of the 20th century, the SPA drew significant support from many different groups, including trade unionists, Progressivism, progressive social reformers, Populism, populist farmers and immigrants. Eugene V. Debs twice won over 900,000 votes in presidential elections (1912 United States presidential election, 1912 and 1920 United States presidential election, 1920), while the party also elected two United States House of Representatives, U.S. representatives (Victor L. Berger and Meyer London), dozens of state legislators, more than 100 mayors, and countless lesser officials. The party's staunch American entry into World War I#In the United States, opposition to America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
