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In "Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin" (2007), Wendy Z Goldman uses declassified arquives to argue that the purges in the USSR under Stalin were a much more bottom-up and de-centralized phenomenom than is usually thought in the popular view. Is this now considered the academic consensus?

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Male slave owners had sex with their female slaves often (Thomas Jefferson famously fathered several children with a slave woman, Sally Hemings, who was herself also a child of a slave owner and his slave). Did the same occur with female slave owners having sex with male slaves?

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JP Geary states that the state of being "roman" was a constitutional category, not an ethnic one, and that the state of being a "barbarian" was an invented category. What does this mean?

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How did the convention of naming revolutions after months (July, May, October, etc) originate, and why is it so popular?

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I'm trying to understand the hospitalitas system as described by Perry Anderson in Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism (1974). How did it function? How does it connect to the relationship between Germanic and Roman elites in the process by which the latter settled Roman lands?

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In "Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin" (2007), Wendy Z Goldman uses declassified arquives to argue that the purges in the USSR under Stalin were a much more bottom-up and de-centralized phenomenom than is usually thought in the popular view. Is this now considered the academic consensus?	175
Male slave owners had sex with their female slaves often (Thomas Jefferson famously fathered several children with a slave woman, Sally Hemings, who was herself also a child of a slave owner and his slave). Did the same occur with female slave owners having sex with male slaves?	16
JP Geary states that the state of being "roman" was a constitutional category, not an ethnic one, and that the state of being a "barbarian" was an invented category. What does this mean?	10
How did the convention of naming revolutions after months (July, May, October, etc) originate, and why is it so popular?	3
I'm trying to understand the hospitalitas system as described by Perry Anderson in Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism (1974). How did it function? How does it connect to the relationship between Germanic and Roman elites in the process by which the latter settled Roman lands?	1