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What are the most salient examples throughout history of people believing things that caused harm, for example through killing innocent people, or applying ineffective or counterproductive interventions?

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Is there an equivalent online, History encyclopaedia resource to AskPhilosophy's Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy?

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In your period and area of study, what were the effects of actions/implementing policies, based on beliefs that were later proven to be wrong and/or harmful to society?

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Are there any particular historians or materials that discuss the concept of imbalance re: societal pendulum swings of extremes re: either entrainments of arguably immoral attitudes and behaviours (the victim group turning into the oppressors), or drastic changes in attitudes and behaviour?

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What were the prime causes of the Cold War? And how much, if at all, was it down to ideological differences between Capitalism and Communism?

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What are the most salient examples throughout history of people believing things that caused harm, for example through killing innocent people, or applying ineffective or counterproductive interventions?	5
Is there an equivalent online, History encyclopaedia resource to AskPhilosophy's Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy?	5
In your period and area of study, what were the effects of actions/implementing policies, based on beliefs that were later proven to be wrong and/or harmful to society?	1
Are there any particular historians or materials that discuss the concept of imbalance re: societal pendulum swings of extremes re: either entrainments of arguably immoral attitudes and behaviours (the victim group turning into the oppressors), or drastic changes in attitudes and behaviour?	1
What were the prime causes of the Cold War? And how much, if at all, was it down to ideological differences between Capitalism and Communism?	1