Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.

Scalawags. White southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.

Terrorism. Zealots. Cagoulards. Baader-Meinhof. Irish Republican Army. Hamas. PLO. Osama. Taliban. al-Qaeda.

Whig. 1834-54. US political party. Divided over slavery, most became Republican.

Aberhart, William. 1878-1943. Canadian Social Credit advocate.

Anti-Masonic Party. 1826. US party absorbed into Whigs 1838.

Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.

Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.

Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.

Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.

Bolsheviks. (“Majority”) 1903-52. Revolutionary faction of Social Democratic Workers Party for dictatorship of Proletariat. =Communist. Mensheviks.

Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.

Brandt, Willy. 1913-92. Pragmatic Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74.

Branting, Karl. 1860-1925. Founder of Swedish Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister 1920-4.

Bryan, William Jennings. 1860-1925. US Democrat vs Gold Standard. Scopes prosecutor.

Callaghan, James. 1912-. British Labour Prime Minister 1976-9.

Camorra. 1820-1911. Naples secret criminal society. Became political party.

Cavalier Party. 1660-88. Royalists. Became Tory.

CCF. 1932. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Canadian Socialist party. 1961 =New Democratic Party.

Central Committee. Governing body of USSR Communist Party.

Centre Party. 1871-1933. German Roman Catholic political party.

Chaykovsky, Nikolai. 1850-1926. Russian Socialist. Opposed Bolsheviks. Led counterrevolutionary government 1918-20.

Chicherin, Georgi. 1872-1936. Russian diplomat. Won recognition for Communist government.

Chou En-lai. 1898-1976. Chinese moderate Communist Prime Minister 1949-.

COMINFORM. Communist Information Bureau. 1947-56. Coordinated European party activities.

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