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Why didn't Mao Zeodong try to take back Hong Kong from Britain after the PRC was created?	257
What was it like to work in a bank in the USSR and other Socialist countries of the Eastern block? How did their day to day work differ from the ones in Capitalist countries?	229
How did one go about getting a job in the USSR? Were there interviews for "White Collar" jobs like in Western countries?	227
Given Khruschev's dislike for Stalin, how did he manage to avoid getting purged and even rise up in the Party hierarchy during Stalin's rule?	225
How bourgeois were the bourgeois revolutions (American, French etc) in reality? Did the bourgeois have clear consciousness and act as a "class for itself" in a Marxian sense or was it projected as such by Marx and others?	220
What were the people who plotted the 1991 Soviet coup attempt planning to do once they gained power? Would their economic policies be different from the ones pursued later by Yeltsin?	209
I have read that Netherlands had one of the most advanced financial sector in 18th and 19th century. How did high finance develop to such an extent there?	208
Many historians and economists have blamed retained Colonial structures and institutions for under-development of Sub-Saharan Africa even after countries gained independence. What exactly does this mean?	208
The Italian region of Emilia Romagna is famous for having a very large and successful cooperative sector that is highly competitive on world markets. Are there any good reads covering their history and on how they managed to achieve that?	191
I have seen many people bring up memes/articles during debate on Libya that claim that under Gadaffi the government gave free housing to newly weds, carried the largest irrigation project, implemented universal healthcare etc. Was Libya really a successful welfarist state?	190

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