liberal democracy

  1. Is it possible for a French-style revolution to succeed anywhere?

    This is one of the things that I've been interested in since, well, you know, the modern world has fulfilled the goals* of all but the most radical of the revolutionaries, but only long after they themselves collapsed into bloodshed, chaos, and dictatorship. What I'm asking is if the very first...
  2. Have Revolutionary France be remembered like the USSR

    This is an idea that's been floating in my head for a while. I know that they're not the same, but there were some similarities between the two, and I've seen people draw parallels between them (the terrors, degenerating into dictatorship, etc), and I was thinking of what might be necessary to...
  3. Politicians that could have lived longer

    Which politicians that died in the 20th and 21st century could have lived longer? How would their survival affect Historical events? I want to limit the discussion to politicians whose death was caused by Murder, accident or disease. Authority figures in dictatorships should be counted as...
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