AskHistorians

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Did the rise of television as a source of entertainment cut into the profits of movie studios?	3
How long after the invention of the lightbulb do we see electric power tools commonly used?	3
I’m a Muslim, Kazakh peasant conscripted into an infantry battalion from my collective farm in 1943 to help defend the USSR from the German invaders. How accommodating will the Red Army be towards me and my faith? What type of allowances will the grant me?	3
I’m a hardworking Moscow resident whose small, family apartment is currently infested with bedbugs/cockroaches. Who do I call to take care of this problem? Are there state run extermination agencies I can turn to?	3
Aren’t peasants/rural folk ALWAYS migrating to urban areas? Why does this population movement feature so heavily in histories of Europe?	3
Many West German intellectuals on the Left excoriated the Bonn Republic for not reckoning with its Nazi past and the crimes of Hitler. Despite that, the Holocaust and the Jews seem conspicuously absent in much of the criticism I’ve read. Was this intentional or am I missing something?	3
How common was rape in the GULAG camps? NSFW	3
Why did the Roman Empire seem more concerned with entertaining its idle citizens, in the form of Colosseum for example, then it’s contemporary Han empire in China?	3
How did feminists react to Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power as the first female prime minister of the UK?	3
One of the fastest ways to get people’s blood boiling today is to show them pictures or videos of animals that have been abused by humans. But read about the treatment of animals as early as the 19th century you can see drastic differences in what was considered abuse. What changed?	3

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