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I swear for the past few months, I haven't seen a single question get answered, every time I check all the comments have been deleted. Maybe it's just me but I haven't seen a single answer

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So far-right populists like Eric Zemmour in France have described themselves as Bonaprtists, and place that ideology within the context of far-right populism and radicalism. Would the Bonapartists of the 19th century understood themselves to be far-right?

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Is the Russian expansion into Siberia and Central Asia romanticized into a genre in the same way the American Western frontier is?

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Why did so many artists and writers in the decadent/aesthetic movement end up converting to Catholicism?

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Was Augusto Pinochet’s rule Chilean fascism?

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If Jacobitism was mostly a movement for an absolute, Catholic, divine right monarchy in England, why was it able to win such popular support?

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What was life like in the Second French Empire? Would it have been similar to life in other far-right authoritarian regimes like Imperial Germany, or the Fascist states of the 20th century? Was it unique in its own right?

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How did political ideologies that we are familiar with today; like conservatism, liberalism, socialism etc. differ in the year 1900, then how we understand them now. Would a conservative or liberal party advocate for different things than they would now?

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Was Napoleon III’s regime in France the prototype for fascism?

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Why is there a pop cultural association of the balkans/Eastern Europe with gothic horror tropes such as vampires, dark forests, werewolves etc?

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I swear for the past few months, I haven't seen a single question get answered, every time I check all the comments have been deleted. Maybe it's just me but I haven't seen a single answer	3949
So far-right populists like Eric Zemmour in France have described themselves as Bonaprtists, and place that ideology within the context of far-right populism and radicalism. Would the Bonapartists of the 19th century understood themselves to be far-right?	168
Is the Russian expansion into Siberia and Central Asia romanticized into a genre in the same way the American Western frontier is?	91
Why did so many artists and writers in the decadent/aesthetic movement end up converting to Catholicism?	61
Was Augusto Pinochet’s rule Chilean fascism?	25
If Jacobitism was mostly a movement for an absolute, Catholic, divine right monarchy in England, why was it able to win such popular support?	19
What was life like in the Second French Empire? Would it have been similar to life in other far-right authoritarian regimes like Imperial Germany, or the Fascist states of the 20th century? Was it unique in its own right?	18
How did political ideologies that we are familiar with today; like conservatism, liberalism, socialism etc. differ in the year 1900, then how we understand them now. Would a conservative or liberal party advocate for different things than they would now?	14
Was Napoleon III’s regime in France the prototype for fascism?	9
Why is there a pop cultural association of the balkans/Eastern Europe with gothic horror tropes such as vampires, dark forests, werewolves etc?	9