...Sarah Leonard; Yasmin El-Rifae This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. El-Rifae: I knew when I was working with Op-AntiSH that the story of the organization and its resistance to sexual violence during the revolution needed to be shared. It has been sort...

... justification. It was theory that led his followers to believe that the October Revolution would rapidly spread to Europe, and that it was their mission to help usher in a new era. So when the Spartacist uprising in Germany was unceremoniously crushed after a few days in January 1919, and when the revolutionary...

... is prologue, the difficulties will be resolved by the same bottom-up process that in the late 1980s launched the nation’s second revolution, producing a market economy. The first revolution of expelling the French in the 1950s and the Americans in the 1970s was led from the top down, as every Vietnamese...

..., Afrocubanas especially, are still fighting anti-black discrimination and working to create “a revolution inside a revolution.” Copyright © 2016 University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission 2016 Cuba racism revolution race “Against racial discrimination / social justice for all...

..., and revolution as becoming—represent a departure from the nonracial conciliatory “Rainbow Nation” project of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mandela, and the ANC and a new way of grappling with the outcomes of a history of patriarchy, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. Revolution...

... or riot police, appeared to be throwing their support behind the expatriated Syrian revolution, giving them time to organize and grow stronger in Turkey while Syrian forces continued to pummel their homeland. Mohammad Bassam Imadi used to be Syria’s ambassador to Sweden, but since November he has...

...Forrest D. Colburn In the 1980s, the Nicaraguan Revolution was widely held to be an exciting turning point in the history of Latin America. With the overthrow of a family dynasty, the Somozas, who had governed this small Central American country for 43 years, such claims seemed thoroughly...

... is simple: social media has effectively killed the politician. The Egyptian revolution and its aftermath demonstrated what happens to societies when they gain broad access to technology and connectivity. These capabilities can create a space for new political voices to be heard, while simultaneously...

... accomplishments will likely increase Chávez’s popularity. A survey by Hinterlaces, one of Venezuela’s leading pollsters, revealed that at the end of January, 64 percent of Venezuelans thought Chávez’s administration has been positive, while 59 percent believed the Bolivarian Revolution has helped the development...

... and the absence of men in the household means there is no income. Their lives, they say, had been miserable under Mubarak. But some of their neighbors—men desperate for money—had been paid during the revolution to act as Mubarak sympathizers or attack protesters. Now, they feel they are being ignored. Before...

... for me! How many mothers cried be cause someone forgot his con science? Get up! Let’s make a revolution! Our dignity’s been trampled. Now we must avenge it!” The lyrics are perhaps more hard-hitting than Tunisian rapper El Général’s celebrated anthem “Rais Lebled, ” a loud...

... 1939 established 1994 German occupation Velvet Revolution PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC When Czechoslovakia was part of the Soviet bloc, between 1945 and 1994, theto Zionism. museum was controlled...

... the reformists, however, Iranians who formists at every turn, even vetoing such lived through the revolution of 1979 dread ideologically neutral legislation as a conven­ a reprise of the bloody purges, show trials, tion on shipping with Slovenia. and summary executions that claimed tens Iran...

....” Martyrdom and sacrifice were stressed The unjust enemy as necessary components of the communist If he casts a sharp glance, revolution and resistance against the enemy: We will pluck out his eyes, “agents of the British,” “agents of colonial­ We...

.... Ukraine: Stranded between Two Worlds? M ichael Meyer At the critical moment in Ukraine’s Orange with a vengeance. Amid the turmoil, Revolution, the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, Kuchma was stalling, hoping time and John Herbst, received a frantic telephone cold weather would dissipate...