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Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (Traditional Chinese: 中國國民黨革命委員會Simplified Chinese: 中国国民党革命委员会 Pinyin: Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng Gémìngwěiyuánhuì) is one of eight registered minor political parties (in addition to the Communist Party of China) in the People's Republic of China.
Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action (in French: Comité Révolutionaire d'Unité et d'Action) was a militant group in Algeria fighting French colonial rule. CRUA regrouped former elements of OS and radical from MTLD.
Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist) Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist), was a communist group based in Punjab. RCCI(M) was formed in 1995, as the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist) was divided into two (the other faction was the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)).
Revolutionary Communist Group (Lebanon) The Revolutionary Communist Group (Tajammu' al-Shuyu'i al-Thawri (Arabic), Groupe Communiste RĂ©volutionnaire (French), or GCR) is a Trotskyist organisation in Lebanon, associated with the reunified Fourth International.
Revolutionary Communist Group (UK) The Revolutionary Communist Group is a communist group in the United Kingdom. It evolved from the "Revolutionary Opposition" in the International Socialists (forerunners of the Socialist Workers Party) during the 1970s.
Revolutionary Communist League (UK) The Revolutionary Communist League was a small Trotskyist political group in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1969 by two groups, one expelled from the International Marxist Group for wanting focus on entryist work in the Labour Party, and one from the Militant Tendency.
Revolutionary Communist League of Britain The Revolutionary Communist League of Britain was a Maoist political party in Great Britain. Its origins lie in the Joint Committee of Communists, founded in 1968 by former Communist Party of Great Britain members and from various youth organisations.
Revolutionary Communist Organisation, Nepal Revolutionary Communist Organisation, Nepal (in Nepali: क्रान्तिकारी कम्युनिष्ट सङ्गठन, नेपाल) was a communist faction in Nepal. The group operated in the Bagmati, Janakpur and Koshi zones.
Revolutionary Communist Organising Committee Revolutionary Communist Organising Committee (in Nepali: क्रान्तिकारी कम्युनिष्ट सङ्गठन समिति) was a communist group in Nepal. The organ of the group was Rato Jhanda (रातो झण्डा, Red Flag).
Revolutionary Communist Party (Chile) Revolutionary Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Revolucionario) was a pro-China communist party in Chile founded in 1966. The founders of PCR belonged to ESPARTACO (led by the ValparaĂ­so senator Jaime Barros PĂ©rez Cotapos), a group that had been expelled from the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), and Revolutionary Communist Union, another splinter group of PCCh.
Revolutionary Communist Party (Turkey) Revolutionary Communist Party (in Turkish: Devrimci KomĂĽnist Partisi) was a clandestine communist party in Turkey. DKP was formed following the third congress of Communist Party of Turkey/Unity (TKP/B), which was held in Greece in 1989.
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist political party, formed in 1944 and active until 1949, and publishing the Socialist Appeal fortnightly newspaper, a theoretical journal Workers International News and an entrist paper for its Labour Party fraction The Militant.
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) started as a Trotskyist political organisation in 1978 and slowly metamorphosed into a libertarian group. It was disbanded in 1997 but its ex-members are still active in a network of think tanks and media pressure groups.
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (RCPB-ML) is a British communist political party. It was originally named the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist), until it was reorganised after rejecting Maoism.
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (in Turkish: TĂĽrkiye Devrimci KomĂĽnist Partisi) is a clandestine communist party in Turkey. TDKP was founded as a party in 1980, but has its roots in a split from the People's Liberation Army of Turkey-United Struggle (THKO-MB) in 1976.
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey-Socialist Unity Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey-Socialist Unity (in Turkish: TĂĽrkiye Devrimci KomĂĽnist Partisi-Sosyalist Birlik) was a clandestine Marxist-Leninist political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1987, following a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP).
Revolutionary Communist Unity Centre (Marxist-Leninist) Revolutionary Communist Unity Centre (Marxist-Leninist), a communist group in India. RCUC(M-L) was formed by Asit Sen in 1970, who had left the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries in 1969.
Revolutionary Communist Workers Movement of Turkey Revolutionary Communist Workers Movement of Turkey (in Turkish: Türkiye Devrimci Komünist İşçi Hareketi) was a clandestine Marxist-Leninist group in Turkey. TDKİH was founded in August 1989, following a split in the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP).
Revolutionary Communist Youth (Sweden) Revolutionary Communist Youth (Revolutionär Kommunistisk Ungdom, abbreviated RKU) is the youth organization of the Swedish Communist Party. It was founded in 1994 as a successor of the Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists), which existed 1972-1978.
Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade The Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, first known as the Attica Brigade and then the Revolutionary Student Brigade, is the youth group of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Members of the group typically wear T-shirts with a large red star superimposed with the silhouette of a young person raising a rifle.
Revolutionary Communists Revolutionary Communists or Party of Revolutionary Communism (PRC) () was a party established in September 1918 by a group of Left Esers, split from their party after the failed Left Eser Uprising and sided with Bolsheviks.
Revolutionary Conservative Caucus The Revolutionary Conservative Caucus was a small, hard-right pressure group founded in late 1993 by Stuart Millson, an officer of the Western Goals Institute, and Jonathan Bowden, that attempted to introduce a new radicalism into British conservatism.Right Now!
Revolutionary Coordinating Junta The Revolutionary Coordinating Junta or JCR (Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria) was an alliance, formed in the mid 1970s, of communist parties in the Southern Cone region of South America that all waged urban guerrilla warfare. The JCR was composed of the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), the Argentine People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), the Uruguayan Tupamaros, and the Bolivian National Liberation Army (ELN).
Revolutionary Democratic Group The Revolutionary Democratic Group (RDG) is a tiny socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. They were founded in the early 1980s as a split from London and Scottish branches of the Socialist Workers Party.
Revolutionary Ensemble The Revolutionary Ensemble is a free jazz trio consisting of violinist Leroy Jenkins, bass violinist Sirone (Norris Jones) and percissionist/pianist Jerome Cooper. The trio was active from 1971-1977, and reunited in 2004.
Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Portuguese: Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente or FRETILIN) was a resistance movement that fought for the independence of East Timor, first from Portugal and then from Indonesia, between 1974 and 1998. It was originally the Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT).
Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador The Revolutionary Government Junta (Spanish: Junta de Gobierno Revolucionario, JRG) ruled El Salvador between October 15, 1979 and May 2 1982. It contained 2 colonels, Adolfo Arnaldo Majano Ramo and Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño, and 3 civilians, Guillermo Ungo, Mario Antonio Andino and Román Mayorga Quirós.
Revolutionary Guevarist Army The Revolutionary Guevarist Army is a small guerrilla group operating in Colombia. It does not operate nationwide and is not as large as the two main guerrilla groups in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation Army.
Revolutionary History Revolutionary History is a British journal dedicated to the history of the far left. It was founded in 1988 by Sam Bornstein and Al Richardson and has maintained an editorial board representing many strands of British Trotskyism.
Revolutionary Internationalist Contingent The Revolutionary Internationalist Contingent was a Maoist group in Britain, founded in 1986 by the merger of the Nottingham Communist Group and Stockport Communist Group. The basic programmatic document of the group was Break the Chains!.
Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (Spanish Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria) is a Chilean communist party founded on October 12, 1965. The group emerged from various student organizations and established a base of support among the trade unions and shantytowns of Santiago.
Revolutionary Left Movement (Peru) Revolutionary Left Movement (in Spanish: Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria), was a pro-Cuban, leftwing movement in Peru founded in 1962 by Luis de la Puente Uceda and his group APRA Rebelde. In 1965 MIR initiated guerrilla actions against the government.
Revolutionary Left Union Revolutionary Left Union (in Spanish: UniĂłn de Izquierda Revolucionaria), was an electoral front in Peru founded in 1980 by Communist Party of Peru (Red Fatherland), Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian) and National Liberation Front. UNIR participated on the lists of IU from the municipal elections 1980 to 1993.
Revolutionary movement Revolutionary movement is a specific type of social movement dedicated to carrying out a revolution. Charles Tilly defines it as a '[social movement] advancing exlusive competing claims to control of the state, or some segment of it' [Charles Tilly, European revolutions, 1492-1992, Oxford, p.
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence Revolutionary movement for Indian independence is often a less-highlighted aspect of Indian independence movement - the underground revolutionary factions. The groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category.
Revolutionary Mariateguist Party Revolutionary Mariateguist Party (in Spanish: Partido Mariateguista Revolucionario), was a political party in Peru founded in 1989, through a split in the Mariateguist Unified Party (PUM). Leaders of PMR included Agustín Haya de la Torre, Santiago Pedráglio and Miguel Azcueta.
Revolutionary Marxist Association - Communist Project The Revolutionary Marxist Association - Communist Project, in Italian Associazione marxista rivoluzionaria Progetto comunista, or AMR Progetto Comunista, was a Trotskyist grouping in the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) in Italy.
Revolutionary Marxist Group (Ireland) Revolutionary Marxist Group was a Trotskyist organization in Ireland during the 1970s.was founded in about 1971 as a split from the Socialist Labour Alliance], and it affiliated to the [[United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party (in Spanish: Partido Obrero Marxista Revolucionario), was a Trotskyist political party in Peru that was founded in 1970 by a dissident fraction of Vanguardia Revolucionaria. It was led by Ricardo Napurí and Jorge Villarán
Revolutionary Military Council Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic or Revvoyensoviet (Революционный Военный Совет, Реввоенсовет) was the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia. It was instituted by the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ("VTsIK") on September 2, 1918 (known as "Decree about Declaring the Soviet Republic the Military Camp").
Revolutionary Movement 8th October The Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro (Portuguese for Revolutionary Movement 8th October) is a left-wing Brazilian political movement, formerly an urban guerrilla faction. During the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), MR-8 was formed by people that disagreed the way that PCB (Partido Comunista Brasileiro - Brazilian Communist Party) faced the military government (PCB decided to not make part of the armed resistance and try to fight institutionally by the democracy in Brazil).
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario) is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.
Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Nuclei (Greek: Επαναστατικοί Πυρήνες; Epanastatiki Pyrines; formerly the Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas) is a far-left revolutionary group in Greece, formed in 1995. The group is estimated to have very few members and has very likely not been responsible for any attacks since 2000.
Revolutionary Organization 17 November November 17 (Greek: Επαναστατική Οργάνωση 17 Νοέμβρη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri), (also known as 17N or N17) is a now-defunct Marxist terrorist organization. The group was formed in Greece in 1973 to counter the ruling party and United States' influence in the country.
Revolutionary Party for Reunification Revolutionary Party for Reunification (RPR), now known as the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF), is an underground South Korean organization that is called a socialist political party by North Korea and a pro-communist spy group by the South.
Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification (in Spanish: Partido Revolucionario de Unification Democratica), a political party in El Salvador founded in 1957 by a sector of militaries and middle-class elements who favoured modernization. PRUD was later replaced by National Conciliation Party (PCN).
Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left The Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacionalista, PRIN) was a left-wing political party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1963 by the labor leader Juan LechĂ­n when leaders of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) did not nominate him for president.
Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Bases for Revolution Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Bases for Revolution (in Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado - Bases pela Revolução), a political party in Portugal led by Luis Cardoso. Founded on July 17 2002 as a refoundation of Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades.
Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades (in Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado -Brigadas Revolucionárias), is a political party in Portugal. The Revolutionary Brigades were founded in 1970 by Isabel do Carmo, Carlos Antunes and Pedro Goulart, and advocated armed struggle against the regime.
Revolutionary Party to Reform Vietnam The Revolutionary Party to Reform Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Canh Tân Cách Mạng Đảng) or Viet Tan in short, is an international, political organization whose objective is to end the Communist dictatorial rule in Vietnam and economically rebuild Vietnam.
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, (Turkish: Devrimci Halk KurtuluĹź Partisi/Cephesi or DHKP/C) is a militant Marxist-Leninist party in Turkey. It is in the terrorist organization lists in the U.
Revolutionary Road Revolutionary Road, the first novel of author Richard Yates, was a finalist for the National Book Award along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When it was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and the New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted...
Revolutionary spontaneity Revolutionary spontaneity, also known as Spontaneism and, within leftist circles, sometimes sponty, is a tendency to believe that social revolution can and should occur spontaneously from below, without the aid or guidance of a vanguard party, and that it cannot and should not be brought about by the actions of individuals or parties who might attempt to foment such a revolution. In his work What is to be Done?
Revolutionary Social Democratic Party The Revolutionary Social Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Social DemĂłcrata) is a minor political party of the Dominican Republic, despite winning 1.6 of the vote, without parliamentary representation after the 16 May 2006 election.
Revolutionary Socialist League (Germany) The Revolutionary Socialist League (German: Revolutionär Sozialistischen Bund, RSB) is a small Trotskyist group in Germany. It was formed in 1994 as a split from the Association for Solidarity Perspectives (VsP).
Revolutionary Socialist League (US) The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in the United States. It was founded in 1973 by a group of International Socialists members who developed a theory that the USSR and similar societies were not, as the IS held, bureaucratic collectivist but were state capitalist.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) [RSP(B)] was formed as a splinter-group from Revolutionary Socialist Party in Kerala in 2001. The party leader at the time of its formation was Baby John, formerly an important RSP leader in Kerala.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (marxist-leninist) Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (in Spanish: Partido Socialista Revolucionario (Marxista-Leninista)) was a political party in Peru founded in 1978 through a split in the Revolutionary Socialist Party. Its leaders included Antonio Aragón, Carlos Urrutia and Andrés Avelino Mar.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Peru) Revolutionary Socialist Party (in Spanish: Partido Socialista Revolucionario) was a political party in Peru formed in 1976. Its founders included several people from the Velasco Alvarado government, such as general Leonidas Rodríguez Figueroa, general Jorge Fernández Maldonado, Enrique Bernales and Alfredo Filomeno.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Portugal) The Revolutionary Socialist Party (in Portuguese: Partido Socialista Revolucionário, pron. , or PSR) was a small far-left Party in Portugal, founded in 1978 after the merger of two Trotskyist parties - the Internationalist Communist League (Portuguese: Liga Comunista Internacionalista or LCI) and the Workers Revolutionary Party (Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores or PRT).
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Sweden) Revolutionära Socialistiska Partiet (Revolutionary Socialist Party), a Swedish political party founded in 1945, as the Independent Labour Party (Oberoende Arbetarpartiet). It was founded by a group that had split from the Left Socialist Party (VSP), when VSP had developed in a pro-Western direction.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (UK) The Edinburgh-based Revolutionary Socialist Party was a Trotskyist group. It developed out of the British Section of the International Socialist Labour Party, a socialist grouping formed around the teachings of Daniel DeLeon which split from the Socialist Labour Party during World War I.
Revolutionary Struggle Revolutionary Struggle (Greek: Επαναστατικός Αγώνας, Epanastatikos Agonas) is a far-left Greek paramilitary group known for its attacks on Greek government buildings and the American embassy in Athens. It is widely described as a terrorist group by both the Greek government and the media.
Revolutionary Student Brigade The Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB) was a left wing student activist organization in the 1970s in the United States. The RSB was founded at a conference on June 15-17, 1974 which was attended by about 450 students from 80 campuses.
Revolutionary Students Unity of Bangladesh Revolutionary Students Unity of Bangladesh was the students wing of the Workers Party of Bangladesh. The organisation was founded in 1980 through the unification of 4 student movements, Jatio Chhatra Andolan, Jatio Chhatra Union, Jatio Chhatra Dal and Jatio Chhatra Dal.
Revolutionary Tribunal The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire) was a court which was instituted in Paris by the Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders, and became one of the most powerful engines of the Reign of Terror.
Revolutionary United Front The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. The RUF was rather unusual in that it had no true ideology outside of discontent and opposition to the current Sierra Leone government.
Revolutionary Unity Movement The Revolutionary Unity Movement (In Spanish: Movimiento de Unidad Revolucionaria - MUR) is a Nicaraguan political party, founded in 1988 as a new Marxist party by defectors from the Marxist-Leninist Party of Nicaragua (PMLN), Nicaraguan Communist Party (PCdeN), and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Ex-FSLN member, Moisés Hassán, Managua's former Sandinista major, was the leader of the organization.
Revolutionary Vanguard Revolutionary Vanguard (in Spanish: Vanguardia Revolucionaria) was a political party in Peru founded in 1965 by various Marxist groups. Leaders included Ricardo NapurĂ­, CĂ©sar Benavides, Ricardo Letts and Edmundo Murrugarra.
Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian) Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian) (in Spanish: Vanguardia Revolucionaria (Proletario Comunista)) was a Maoist-oriented political party in Peru founded in 1977 by Eduardo Figari and Julio CĂ©sar Mezzich. It formed through a split in Revolutionary Vanguard.
Revolutionary Voices Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, edited by Amy Sonnie, is an anthology created by and for radical queer youth, committed specifically to youth of color, young women, transgender and bisexual youth, (dis)abled youth, and poor/working class youth. It was published in 2000 by Alyson Publications and was a finalist in two categories for a Lambda Literary Award.
Revolutionary Wealth Revolutionary Wealth is a book written by social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler, first published in 2006 by Knopf (ISBN 0-375-40174-1). The book argues that institutions—public, private and social—left over from an era of mass production are unsuited to a new civilization being built by the United States.
Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey Türkiye İhtilâlci İşçi Köylü Partisi (Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey), a pro-Chinese communist party in Turkey. TİİKP was founded in 1971 by the Proleter Devrimci Aydınlık (Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment) group, that had broken away from Dev-Genç (Revolutionary Youth).
Revolutionary Workers Ferment The FOR is a small revolutionary communist tendency based on the ideas of Grandizo Munis a leader of the Trotskyist movement in Spain during the Civil War. He founded the FOR after his release from prison for anti-Franco activities.
Revolutionary Workers League of Sweden Revolutionary Workers League of Sweden (in Swedish: Sveriges Revolutionära Arbetarförbund), initially known as Revolutionary Workers League (Revolutionära Arbetares Förbund), was Trotskyist organisation in Sweden. The group was formed in 1975.
Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire The Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire was a Canadian Trostkyist party formed on August 8 1977 by the fusion of the Revolutionary Marxist Group and its Quebec counterpart, the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionnarie with the League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière. The organization marked the reunification of the Canadian section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International and had a membership of several hundred people.
Revolutionary Workers Party (Sri Lanka) Revolutionary Workers Party, initially known as Revolutionary Samasamaja Party is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formed in 1968, as a split from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary).
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia) The Revolutionary Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR) is a Trotskyist political party in Bolivia. At its height in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the POR was one of the few Trotskyist parties in history to gain a mass working-class following.
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Nicaragua) The Revolutionary Workers' Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores - PRT) is a left-wing Nicaraguan political party with Marxist and Trotskyist tendencies founded 1971 by students including Bonifacio Miranda.
Revolutionary Youth League Solidarity Revolutionary Youth League Solidarity (in Swedish: Revolutionära UngdomsFörbundet Solidaritet) was a local leftist youth group in Katrineholm, Sweden that existed around 1986. According to its programme RUFS was 'a counter-wight to MUF, FPU and other slimy upper-class youth leagues as well as an alternative to the established left-wing youth leagues KU and SSU'.
Revolutionary Youth Movement The Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) was the section of Students for a Democratic Society that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party. Most of the national leadership of SDS joined the RYM in order to oppose PLP's party line and what they alleged to be its attempted takeover of the SDS leadership structure, particularly at the 1969 SDS convention in Chicago.
Revolutions of 1848 The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution, were a revolutionary wave which erupted in Sicily and then, further triggered by the revolutions of 1848 in France, soon spread to the rest of Europe and as far afield as Brazil. These European revolutions were the violent consequences of a variety of changes that had been taking place in Europe in the first half of the 19th century.
Revolutions of 1848 in France The February 1848 revolution put an end to the July monarchy (1830-1848), replaced by the Second Republic (1848-1852), while the June Days Uprising gave a lethal blow to the hopes of a "Social and Democratic Republic" ("la République sociale et démocratique", or "La Sociale"). On December 2, 1851, Louis Napoleon put an end to the Republic by a coup d'état proclaiming the Second Empire (1852-1870) the next year.
Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas From March 1848 through July 1849, the Habsburg's Austrian Empire was threatened by revolutionary movements. Throughout the empire, multiple national movements attempted to step outside the power of the Habsburg rulers in Vienna.
Revolutions of 1989 The Revolutions of 1989, sometimes called the "Autumn of Nations," were a revolutionary wave that swept across Central and Eastern Europe in the autumn of 1989, ending in the overthrow of Soviet-style communist states within the space of a few months.E.
Revolutions per minute Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, r/min, or min−1) is a unit of frequency, commonly used to measure rotational speed, in particular in the case of rotation around a fixed axis. It represents the number of full rotations something makes in one minute.
Revolver (magazine) Revolver is a monthly hard rock and heavy metal magazine published by Future US. The magazine is structured in a manner similar to publications such as Spin while covering many avenues within the heavy metal subculture.
Revolving auditorium A revolving auditorium is a mechanically controlled seating area within a theatre which can be rotated in order to manipulate the change of scenery and stage sets during the performance. Revolving auditoriums are favoured by open-air theatres in particular, because they are ideally suited for the use of natural scenery as an integral part of the set.
Revolving door syndrome Revolving door syndrome is an informal expression which refers to recidivism; any ongoing or frequent contact of recidivists with the criminal justice system is compared to the operation of a "revolving door".
Revolving Door (television advertisement) "Revolving Door" is a famous negative television commercial made for the 1988 United States Presidential Campaign. Along with the Willie Horton "Weekend Passes" advertisement, it is considered to be a prime factor in Michael Dukakis' defeat by George H.
Revolving Loan Fund A Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) provides small business loans to people who have no credit history or access to commercial bank loans. Borrowers tend to be small producers of goods and services — typically farmers and artisans — and many are women.
Revolving stage A revolving stage is a mechnically controlled platform within a theatre that can be rotated in order to speed up the changing of a scene within a show. The first western theatre to feature a revolving stage was the Residenztheater in Munich, installed in the last decade of the twentieth century.
RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti "RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti" (2006-7), a unique and powerful fictional dramedy co-written with "Deer Hunter" writer, Quinn Redeker, with a theme by "Rocky" composer Bill Conti, directed and starring Bret Carr, Kumar Pallana (Terminal, Royal Tennenbaums), Burt Young (Rocky 1-6), Starla Benford (Flight 93, Law and Order), Ernest Mingione (Law and Order), Suzanne Didonna (Sex and the City, etc.), Jon Jacobs.
Revs Revs is the tag name of a New York graffiti artist whose wheat paste stickers, roller pieces, murals, sculptures, and spray-painted diary entries have earned him over the course of two decades the reputation of an artist provocateur. Revs, whose real name remains a mystery, is perhaps most widely known for his collaborating in the 90’s with another graffiti writer, Adam Cost, of Queens.
Revsund Court District Revsund Court District, or Revsunds tingslag, was a district of Jämtland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca.
Revue Archeologique La Revue Archéologique, published in Paris is one of the oldest, longest-running scientific journals. First appearing in 1844, it is neither the organ of an institution nor of any school, but has complete independence, under the guidance of its current editor, Martine Fourment.
Revue Studios Revue Studios was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live shows. The partnership of NBC and Revue extends as far back as September 6, 1950, with the television broadcast of Armour Theatre, based on radio's Stars Over Hollywood.
Revueltosaurus Revueltosaurus ("Revuelto lizard") was a prehistoric pseudosuchian reptile from Late Triassic New Mexico and Arizona. It was originally described as an ornithischian dinosaur based on several discoveries of teeth, but was reclassified when a partial skeleton was discovered in 2004.

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