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After the publication of Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" in 1968, theories of overpopulation surged in popularity. Is there a connection between the rise of neomalthusian ideology and the decline of eugenics after WWII?	25
What happened to anarchist and communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War in Franco's Spain? Were they persecuted and imprisoned? How would they have been treated?	21
It's often claimed that European global colonial and imperial domination was due to overwhelming technological superiority, but this is apparently false. What are some other factors that offer a more plausible explanation of why Europeans controlled over 90%+ of the earth's territory by 1914?	19
Why did the Soviets name so many things after anarchists like Kropotkin and Bakunin? Didn't they hate anarchists or something? Didn't they put an end their movement and suppress their writings?	16
Economically speaking, wouldn't you have been a lot better off being a poor person in the Soviet Union than the United States?	15
Is it true the United States adopted an "unofficial" multicultural and multiracial immigration policy in the 1960s because of competition with the Soviet Union for leadership of the "Third World"?	13
According to the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking societies. Is there any truth to this "racial exceptionalism"? Where does it come from?	10
Did most of the people living under Soviet rule want the Soviet Union to collapse? Just how widespread was popular discontent with Soviet rule?	9
Leo Tolstoy was the first person to combine religion with anarchism, creating "Christian anarchism." What was the Russian Orthodox Church's reaction to this highly unorthodox version of Christianity? Wouldn't Tolstoy and his followers have been persecuted in Russia for being heretics?	8
According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, after the mid-1920's, "anarchism was eliminated in the USSR." To what extent was this true? What would it have been like to live as an anarchist in Soviet society under Stalin and his successors?	7

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