Month: November 2017

The year 1848 saw Europe convulsed by a wave of revolutions which shook the political and social order to its foundations. The Revolutions of 1848 hold a very significant place…

The most important event in Russian history between the reforms of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905 was the abolition of serfdom. Serfdom was codified in the 17th…

Popular culture has received more and more attention in recent times –and has become a part of the broad definition of “culture”. The approach to study of the culture industry…

Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, poet, political theorist and the founding father of the Republic of China. He was born in 1893 in a well to…

Examine the various interests in the Chinese Trade. What according to you lead to the First Sino-British War?The First Sino-Anglo War of 1839-42 is an important landmark event in the…

Traditionally, China had been a closed society with a self-sufficient economy. Till the 19th century, it pursued limited relations with the western powers, who she believed to belong to a…

Throughout the last decades of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion. In this period of…

Explain in detail the term ‘Meiji Restoration’ with reference to the political and economic changes that it entailed. Is it appropriate to term it a ‘Revolution’? What were the consequences…

Russia had witnessed a revolution in 1917, which for the first time witnessed the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This revolution was accomplished in two stages: the first…

The proclamation of the Republic in Berlin in November 1918 appeared to most as marking the beginning of a new day for the German people and their nation. However, this…