I guess not to be confused with afterlife beliefs, unless they mean physically a body walks again. That's what I'm really wondering about.

I've always wondered why this era featured such "strange" music.
Was it a movement within music, or a movement within the cinema industry that drove it?

I'm completely lost with this, so any book recommendations or links would be useful, especially looking at the interactions between the different states? Anything at all really though, even historical fiction!

I understand that the Cold War was a political struggle between the Western Bloc and the Communist Soviets/Eastern Bloc and the US and Russia directly fought, but how can it be "cold" when more than 3,000,000 people were killed in the Vietnam War alone?

The three wars I'm referring to are the Korean War (~2.5m Dead), Vietnam War (~3m+ dead), and Soviet-Afghan war (~1.5m dead).

Does it really just come down to the fact that no one dropped the bomb on the other?

We have some sort of standard dictionary like Webster now.

But when and how did the concept of having a dictionary for the 'correct spelling' happen?

Who was the first? Was he the only one?

When did some one authority let say this is how you spell the word "this".

What are your views about the Khojaly Massacre?

HELLO HISTORIANS!

I am drafting a reading-list for my upcoming class, which focuses on the Russian Revolution and its aftermath (roughly, 1917-1930) and I desperately want some recommendations from people more familiar with this era. I plan to be reading: John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), Orlando Figes' A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 (1996), Richard Pipes' series on the Russian Revolution, and Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution (1982). Leon Trotsky will be a central figure of study as well, but beyond this I get to decide what to study. Below is a list of (hopefully) relevant literature, recommendations and opinions about this list would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: Films and other recommendations are very welcome.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago (1973), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Alexandra Kollontai: (recommendations needed, have read some previous work and found it intriguing)

Andrei Bely: Petersburg (1913)

Isaac Deutscher: The Prophet Armed (1954), The Prophet Unarmed (1959), The Prophet Outcast (1963)

Leon Trotsky: My Life (1930), History of the Russian Revolution (1930), The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? (1937)

Mikhail Sholokhov: And Quiet Flows the Don (1928)

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I'm aware that when baby clothing was initially designed for each gender, pink was considered the masculine color and blue the feminine color, but obviously that perception has completely reversed.

I've read articles which say the change happened around the 1940s, but I couldn't find a good reason why. I'm just curious how such a perception could be completely turned on its head.

In terms of technology and innovations. I guess my main question is, were the indigenous people of North America shockingly anachronistic considering the era? (Not in contrast to the European explorers, just in general)

What kind of changes did the legion see that were direct effects of the large number of Germanic peoples in the army.