Communist Revolutions Communist Revolutions The Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik) — also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (Münchner Räterepublik) — was a short-lived revolutionary government in the German state of Bavaria in 1919 that sought to replace the fledgling Weimar Republic in its early days. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bavarian Soviet Republic"
The Chinese Civil War ( ) was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CCP). It began in 1927 during the Northern Expedition when the right-wing faction of the KMT, led by newly-appointed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, purged the Communists from a KMT-CCP alliance. It ended in 1950 with an unofficial cessation of major hostilities, with the Communists controlling mainland China (including Hainan Island) and the Nationalists restricted to their remaining territories of Taiwan, Penghu, and several outlying Fujianese islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese Civil War"
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ( ; often abbreviated to 文化大革命 wénhuà dà gémìng, literally "Great Cultural Revolution", abbreviated to 文革 wéngé) in the People's Republic of China was a revolutionary upsurge by Chinese students and workers against the bureaucrats of the Chinese Communist Party. It was launched by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 to secure Maoism (known domestically as Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought) in China as the state's dominant ideology and eliminate political opposition. Though Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the term is today widely used to also include the period between ...more on Wikipedia about "Cultural Revolution"
The Hungarian Soviet Republic was the political regime in Hungary from March 21, 1919 until the beginning of August of the same year, and it is the second Communist (or soviet) government in world history, after the one in Russia ( 1917). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hungarian Soviet Republic"
Li Zhensheng (born September 22, 1940) is a Chinese photojournalist who captured some of the most telling images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, or better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Li Zhensheng"
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. The October Revolution was led by Bolsheviks under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky and marked the first officially Communist revolution of the twentieth century, based upon the ideas of Karl Marx. The crucial revolutionary activities in Petrograd were under the command of the Petrograd Soviet headed by Leon Trotsky and the Military Revolutionary Committee headed by Adolph Joffe. the revolution was widely regarded as a reaction to the strains that had been placed upon tsarist russia as a result of the great war. ...more on Wikipedia about "October Revolution"
A proletarian revolution is a social and/or political revolution in which the working class overthrows (or attempts to overthrow) capitalism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proletarian Revolution"
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The Slovak Soviet Republic (in Slovak: Slovenská republika rád = literally: "Slovak Republic of Councils" - the name originated before the Russian word soviet (council) became widespread in Slovak and other languages) comprised a short-lived communist state in south and eastern Slovakia from 16 June to 7 July 1919, with its capital in Prešov, and headed by the Czech journalist Antonín Janoušek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slovak Soviet Republic"
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