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9780691037387. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy ( ISBN 9780691037387) is a 1993 book written by Robert D. Putnam (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti). Published by Princeton University Press, the book's central thesis is that social capital is key to high institutional performance and the maintenance of democracy .
President Harry S. Truman directed U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to 1953. His main advisor was Dean Acheson. The main issues of the United States foreign policy during the 1945–1953 presidency of Harry S. Truman include: [1] Final stages of World War II included the challenge of defeating Japan with minimal American casualties.
Principles of Communism (German: Grundsätze des Kommunismus) is a brief 1847 work written by Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of Marxism. It is structured as a catechism, [1] containing 25 questions about communism for which answers are provided. In the text, Engels presents core ideas of Marxism such as historical materialism, class struggle ...
The plan's original title was 10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country. It regards the idea of reunification with South Korea under a pan-national unified state, a Federation, leaving the two systems and governments intact while opening the borders.
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." [1] The doctrine originated with the primary goal of countering the growth of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, [2] and further developed ...
Democracy. In Marxist theory, a new democratic society will arise through the organised actions of an international working class, enfranchising the entire population and freeing up humans to act without being bound by the labour market. [1] [2] There would be little, if any, need for a state, the goal of which was to enforce the alienation of ...
On New Democracy is a 1940 essay by Mao Zedong in which he established the concept of New Democracy during the Second Sino-Japanese War. History of text [ edit ] Mao wrote On New Democracy in early 1940 [1] : 36 while the Yan'an Soviet was developing and expanding during the Second Sino-Japanese War .
Fish was a fervent anticommunist; in a 1931 article titled The Menace of Communism, he described communism as "the most important, the most vital, the most far-reaching, and the most dangerous issue in the world" and believed that there was extensive communist influence in the United States.