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Is the notion of progress especially technological progress uniquely European idea? Did other civilisations (Mayans, Incas, Ancient Egypt) have their own version of it? Did they believe that other societies must/would evolve to become like them?	10
Was child labour ever used in the Soviet Union? If so, under what circumstances and were the conditions better than it was in Capitalist countries?	10
How was Russian modernizer Sergei Witte viewed in the Soviet Union? Did Stalin try to appropriate him like Peter the Great as a progressive figure?	10
What do historians think of David Beito's From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967?	10
How did the minority Alawites (Assad family) come to power in Syria where there is a Sunni majority?	10
Today historians and social scientists disagree with the "civtree" model and ideas of progress and social evolution stressing contingency and particulars. How do they explain generalised trends like the decline of foragers and rise of agriculture, growth of capitalism across the world?	10
Recently I learnt that there was a neo-Nazi party formed in Iran in 1952 (SUMKA). How did it take root in non European country? Did the Nazis view Iranian cultures and peoples positively?	9
How were Indian students studying in elite Colleges and Universities of Britain treated by their native counterparts in the 19th century?	9
How did Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi develop a close relationship despite having very different political views and ideology?	9
Engels noted that the Centralized State in India and other Asiatic countries acted as an entrepreneur by providing irrigation facilities without which Agriculture as not possible. What were the origins of this system and how did it develop?	9

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