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…installing himself as generalissimo of a new regime in 1923. Sun increasingly relied on aid from the Soviet Union, and in 1924 he reorganized the Kuomintang on the model of the Soviet Communist party. Sun also founded the Whampoa Military Academy…

…The fall of the Communist regime and adoption of Democracy in the Soviet Union was more than just a political affair. The resolute bond between economics and politics, which was the central characteristic of the state socialist system, created a unique…

…. Nicholas under pressure tried to make concessions in an effort to shore up support from the intelligentsia and professional sections of Russian society. He tried to meet the peoples demands by introducing the October Manifesto of 1905, which tried…

…telling us it’s for our own good yet we are the criminals. Yes I am a criminal! My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker and this is my manifesto. You can stop me…but you can’t stop us all. Does this frighten you? Does this make you paranoid knowing…

…roles in the universe through their writings. Pico Della Mirandola’s “Oration on the dignity of man”, which glorifies humanity and praises the human ability to reason. If there is such a thing as a "manifesto" of the Italian Renaissance, "Oration…

…manifestos. By age five, he was quite proficient at playing the violin and was studying Latin and French at age six. As if this wasn’t amazing enough, he enrolled at Oxford when he was twelve and, presumably, four years later was granted admittance into the Bar…

…what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C…

…the men in Virginia forming an unpleasant colony. In 1676, Bacon’s “Manifesto” attacks the present Governor (Berkeley), accusing him of “[sucking] up the public treasure” as the “juggling parasites [undergo] sudden advancement” (Bacon, 5). Bacon believes…

…and sailors mutinied, most famously on the Battleship Potemkin of the Black Sea fleet. To this was added the complete defeat of Russia in the Russian Japanese War. The “October Manifesto” split the revolutionaries. Many of the Mensheviks favoured participation…

…. Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed a manifesto assuring voters that a vote for Harding was a vote for the League. But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations. Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865…