I am making a game over the Russian Revolution for english class. I want to make this game a somewhat accurate representation of the Russian Revolution. I have been able find the answers to all of my questions accept for a very important one. What was the troop ratio between the red and the white...

I have a conjecture that Fascism occurred in states where the welfare state grew especially rapidly or unevenly. See the mediterrian countries with large regional differences. Or Argentine wheat export dependence creating regional conflicts, or other historical Fascist movements which lacked thes...

Here in Canada we presently have the CUPW engaged in a strike which is disrupting mail delivery. I talked to one of my friends in the US, and he was surprised to hear of a strike. Apparently they don't have strikes there for the mail service, or he's never heard of one happening. I have been ...

Every state has a secret service and an intelligence service. However, one of the horrors of communist East Germany during the Cold War was the Stasi state apparatus. I recall being horrified to discover just how many people were involved in keeping their domestic population under surveillance. ...

Google employees have stages a mass strike over sexual harassment. This obviously fits into a tradition of labour disputes and contemporary mores. My interest in the era of the internet is with surveillance technology. It's uses, misuses and abuses. Given the direct complicity of tech companies...

The conditions of the armistice were very unfavourable for Germany: The naval blockade continued, prisoners of war were not released, but parts of Germany were occupied and Germany lost the practical means to continue the war. This may be to naive, but why did Germany not just stop fighting or s...

Apart from the Battle of Coronel and Falklands, were there any major engagements of the First World War outside Europe? Land, Air or Sea engagements/battles?

In this question, I would like to make a comparison between two settlements that occurred in the Early Middle Ages in Europe, that seem to be very similar, however they had very distinct outcomes linguistically speaking. The settlements in question are the Gothic/Vandal invasion of Iberia and th...

I can see rationing ended in 1954 and I can see some indication of what was being rationed per person during the war but was the ration post war? ie food ration per month per person in 1950

Why havent anyone referenced the bible's 240+ scriptures in regard to the Geocentric Non-Rotaing Earth?

The Haitian Revolution was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection between 1791 and 1804 and led by Toussaint L'Ouvrture. Haiti paid reparations to French slave-holders set in 1825 at 150 million francs, and then reduced in 1838 to 60 million francs. In today's money this is ar...

A few days ago I was in a cafe where I picked up a leaflet on Labour disputes which went in some detail about Fred Hampton. He was a African-American activist in the Black Panther Party (BPP), in fact the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers and the deputy chair of their nationa...

Chomsky recently pointed out that the mass migration seen on our TVs from Central America has its roots in USA meddling in the governance of countries south of its border. For example the military coup in Honduras in 2009 overthrowing the government of Manuel Zelayo and Haiti in 2004 and 2010. ...

This is a very crude historical analysis. However I'm not really sure of the exact answer except I'm pretty sure that the answer is heavily skewed towards Middle-Eastern governments being meddled with by Western ones. However, it would be nice to have the exact figures. The period I'm looking...