20th Century History

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2012-02-09 European History - Russian Revolution: Black Army:

Hi Margot - well what a great and if I may be so bold - an unusual question.  Are you looking at work on a project of family history etc?  During the post war period I think the civil war could more aptly

2012-01-23 RMS Titanic - Homework help for an interested student:

How many passengers were aboard the ship when it left on April 10th?  1,324    How many employees and crew members were working on the Titanic?  892 were listed on the Titanics crew list    About how much

2011-12-26 RMS Titanic - The Titanic:

The Titanic had been publicised as an 'unsinkable ship' after the collision many of the passengers did not believe that the ship could sink and preferred to stay on a warm ship, therefore many of the lifeboats

2011-12-20 European History - trotsky, lenin, stalin:

It's not as though in some years they wouldn't have wanted to do that, but even today, with the technology available now, you can't listen to everybody, everywhere, all the time. Not to say it wasn't a

2011-12-20 European History - trotsky, lenin, stalin:

In 1917 Russia I would have been pulling for the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party. They favored the Bolshevik program: end the war, land to the peasants, factories to the workers, but were less authoritarian