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How did New York City recover from near bankruptcy in 1975 to prosperity by the end of the 1990s?	41
How was the Russification and Germanification of Poland during the partitions attempted? Did they succeed in "changing" Poles to Germans/Russians? Could they have completely eliminated Polish identity this way?	26
What was different between American political machines like Tammany Hall and their contemporary European political parties, and what was similar?	23
Did government agents infiltrate the Bolsheviks, CCP, Viet Minh, or other successful revolutionary parties? Did they do anything to try to foil the revolution? How did these parties avoid being undermined?	23
What was the relationship between 20th Century American unions and Conservativism?	17
How did sectoral bargaining arise in some parts of Europe? Why do we have enterprise bargaining instead in Anglophone countries?	15
In War & Peace, there is a scene showing how, in the Russian army of 1805, the aristocratic Prince Andrei has in some sense more authority than people who outrank him. Was this the case? Was it typical of European armies of the time?	15
How do historians deal with presentism, in terms of conceptual frameworks, coloring their views of history?	13
The Communist League (for whom the Manifesto was written) was a secret, international party. Bakunin also was involved in secret political parties. What did these parties and others like them do, if they had to stay secret, and how did they recruit members?	11
Were KPD members really voted to the Weimar Parliament strictly for obstruction? Is that what people who voted for them wanted? Were the actual delegates themselves OK with joining Parliament just to gum up the works or were any of them frustrated with that?	11

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