When Chen’s faction refused to print Mao’s work on the revolutionary potential of the Chinese peasantry, “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan,” Qu wrote a preface to Mao’s essay and published it as a pamphlet. He by no means, however, completely sympathized ...
(Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) Active as a politico-military leader on various fronts during theCivil War of 1918–20, Stalin also held two ministerial posts in the new Bolshevik government, being commissar for nationalities (1917–23) and for state control (or workers...
Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin was a Russian Imperial Army officer and Cossack leader who was one of the first to organize military resistance against the Bolsheviks after their accession to power in Russia (October 1917, Old Style). The son of a Don Cossac
(Read Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Britannica essay on “Monuments of Hope.”) Abolitionism to Jim Crow Declaration of IndependenceImage of the Declaration of Independence (1776) taken from an engraving made by printer William J. Stone in 1823. ...