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Argentinian-born Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara (1928 - 1967), Cuban Minister of Industry, dressed in military fatigues, smokes a cigar and appears on the CBS current affairs program 'Face the Nation,' New York, New York, December 14, 1964. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

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Che Guevara

Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, the controversial Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, was a central figure in the Cuban Revolution, serving as second in command to Fidel Castro. 

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Reichstag fire, WWII Berlin, Germany

Reichstag Fire

HITLER’S RISE By the late 1920s, Adolf Hitler and his Nationalist Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party were gaining strength due to growing popular dissatisfaction with the ruling Weimar Republic. Germany’s economic woes in the early 1930s threw the government into further chaos, with President Paul von Hindenburg forced to replace several chancellors within a short […]

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Construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Belomorkanal). The canal was constructed between 1931 and 1933 by forced labor of Gulag inmates. According to official records and accounts in the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, between 12,000 and 240,000 laborers died during the construction of the canal, Russia, 1933.

Gulag

 What Is a Gulag? The word “Gulag” is an acronym for the Russian phrase Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, took control of the Soviet Union. When Lenin died of a stroke in 1924, Joseph Stalin propelled his way to […]

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A portrait of Stalin, 1933. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Great Terror

Motives for the Great Terror Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevik party, died in 1924. Stalin had to fight his way to political succession, but ultimately declared himself dictator in 1929. Upon Stalin’s rise to power, some members of the former Bolshevik party began to question his authority. By the mid-1930s, Stalin […]

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How George H.W. Bush Finished What Reagan Started in Ending the Cold War

Ronald Reagan may have spearheaded the build-up that led to the demise of the Soviet Union, but George H.W. Bush quietly saw it through.

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Why Were the Rosenbergs Executed?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only spies executed during the Cold War and some question whether their sentence was fair.

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A Beijing demonstrator blocks the path of a tank convoy along the Avenue of Eternal Peace near Tiananmen Square during protests for freedom of speech and of press from the Chinese government. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Who Was the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square?

Tank Man, a protester who tried to stop Chinese tanks moving through Tiananmen Square, has never been identified.

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Singer Frank Sinatra posing for a mug shot after being arrested and charged with "carrying on with a married woman" in 1938 in Bergen County, New Jersey. A scan of this mugshot was included in Sinatra's FBI file.

Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File

The FBI documented Old Blue Eyes’ every move for 40 years.

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1963

Tito is made president of Yugoslavia for life

1960s
1848

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

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1935

Mao’s Long March concludes

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1934

The Long March

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1950

Joseph McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore is a Soviet spy

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1952

McCarran-Walter Act goes into effect, revising immigration laws

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