While Sun Yat-sen and Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu were leading two quite distinct types of revolutionary thinking and organizations, they were introduced to the theory and practice of Bolshevism by Comintern and turned into dedicated revolutionaries. […]
A group of Chinese nationalists was strongly affected by the triumph of the Russian Revolution. They began translating the works of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin into Chinese to understand how the Bolsheviks had successfully thrown off centuries of czarist oppression. Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, and Mao Zedong were key people who led the change. […]
Once Hitler moved into Austria, and created one greater German Reich in 1938, Europe began to slide toward the outbreak of the Second World War. […]
Hitler believed that Germany was defenseless, surrounded by potential enemies in the center of Europe. So, he decided to renounce the Treaty of Versailles. […]
It was Nazi foreign policy, in particular Hitler’s very prominent association with it, that was one of the most popular aspects of the regime. […]
The Jews living in Germany faced various atrocities between 1933 and 1935. The Nazi regime wanted to force them to leave the Aryan land. […]
One of the controversies surrounding the racial policy before the Holocaust is, whether the Nazis were acting according to some sort of game plan devised by Hitler. […]
The Nazis handled the opposition to their regime with an iron hand. Just a mere suspicion would land someone in the headquarters of the Gestapo. […]
The Nazis could not win majority votes in the March 1933 elections. Nonetheless, they tried every possible means to establish dictatorship in Germany. And they succeeded. […]
In January 1933, the Nazis and Hitler manipulated the political circumstances in their favor. The party that had less than 3 percent of the vote in 1928, had managed to assume power in Germany. […]
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