Unfortunately, Stalin made that statement in 1926 and by “armed revolution” he was not referring to the Chinese Red Army, which had yet to be born at that time: He was taking about the Northern Expedition under the command of Chiang Kai-shek as he crushed the warlord forces of northern ...
related phrase at the pinnacle of sth.; the pinnacle of academic achievement Example 1 A walker fell 80 feet from a rocky pinnacle. Example 2 She was still at the pinnacle of her career. 23 adhere to (formal English) to keep in doing something synonym stick to; insist on; cling to rel...
In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their critical views ...
Engels organized Marx’s notes on the “Theories of Surplus Value” and this was later published as the “fourth volume” of Capital. Recommended Works The Communist Manifesto The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 Anti-Dühring The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the...
We start way back in about the year 60 CE, with BOUDICA of the British Iceni tribe, who led a rebellion against the occupying Romans. We don’t know a whole lot about her, since the victorious Romans wrote the history books, so she became a bit of a blank slate for imperialist projec...
There were huge and fierce discussions for 50 years before the Second World War about whether Zionism was a solution to antisemitism or a capitulation; to the BUND – the Revolutionary Jewish Labour League in Lithuania, Poland and Russia – it seemed to be giving in to the racists rather tha...
1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety; and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".He was born in York, grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. ...
Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth. He also studied Swahili and linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in 1934. His political activities began with his involvement with unemployed workers and anti-imperialist ...