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Ukraine Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Ukraine Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Ukrainian Relations PEOPLEThe population of Ukraine is…

The World's Most Notorious Despots, Part 3

The World's Most Notorious Despots by Borgna Brunner Top Ten Despots TamerlaneIvan the TerribleRobespierreJoseph StalinAdolph HitlerMao ZedongFrancois DuvalierNicolae CeausescuIdi…

Slobodan Milosevic Biography

Slobodan MilosevicSerbian political leaderBorn: 8/29/1941Birthplace: Pozarevac, Yugoslavia A longtime Communist, Milosevic joined the Communist Party when he was 18. He studied law at the…

Randolph, Asa Philip

(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Asa Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader, b. Crescent City, Fla., attended the College of the City of New York. As a writer and editor of the black magazine The Messenger,…

Soares, Mário

(Encyclopedia) Soares, Mário (Mário Alberto Nobre Lópes Soares)Soares, Máriomäˈry&oobreve; swäˈrəsh [key], 1924–2017, Portuguese politician. Soares rose to prominence as a vocal critic of the…

Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley

(Encyclopedia) Schacht, Hjalmar Horace GreeleySchacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeleyyälˈmär shäkht [key], 1877–1970, German financier. He held executive positions in several major German banks before…

Schindler, Oskar

(Encyclopedia) Schindler, Oskar, 1908–74, German industrialist who saved more than a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. A Catholic and a member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party, Schindler…

Proud Boys

(Encyclopedia) Proud Boys, American political movement. Founded in 2016 by Vice Media cofounder Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys promotes the philosophy…

Fabian Society

(Encyclopedia) Fabian Society, British socialist society. An outgrowth of the Fellowship of the New Life (founded 1883 under the influence of Thomas Davidson), the society was developed the following…

Ludendorff, Erich

(Encyclopedia) Ludendorff, ErichLudendorff, Erichāˈrĭkh l&oomacr;ˈdəndôrf [key], 1865–1937, German general. A disciple of Schlieffen, he served in World War I as chief of staff to Field Marshal…