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What do Historians think of the theory that Lavrentiy Beria killed Joseph Stalin?	57
How accurate are Chapter 27 and 28 of Marx's Capital: Volume 1? Did wage-labor become generalized because of separation of free persons from their soil through legal expropriation?	56
Peter Kroptkin stated that people in many medieval cities had a higher standard of living than workers in all of Europe in the first half of 19th century. Is this correct?	56
What do historians think of Peter Temin's book 'Inside Roman Market Economy'?	54
In the US, only 13 percent of the population lived in suburbs before the Second World War. What was the socio-economic characteristics of the population and how was life like for them?	54
In an article on Slate.com, John McCain's captor is quoted as saying that he "greatly contributed to promote Việt Nam-US relations". What role did he play in this and what were his motivations for doing so?	53
In Denmark in 60s and Sweden in 70s the concept of wage-funds was introduced by left-wing political economists as a way to gradually socialise industry and empower trade-unions but it went no-where. Why did unions fail to mobilise? Did rank-and-file workers not care about the issue?	53
Were native people who lived in extremely remote areas of the USSR (e.g. Eastern Siberia) affected by Stalin's purges?	52
Most Native American societies before 1491 are often portrayed as having a communal/social economies. Did any of them have a fully fledged and developed market economy like Northern Italy during Renaissance?	52
Gamal Abdel Naseer called himself a Socialist and the Government nationalized vast swaths of private Companies in 1961 and embarked on a Five Year Plan. How "Socialist" was Egypt really during his reign?	52

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