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The People's Party, usually known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...
People's Party, with both presenting small farmers (the peasantry in Europe) as the foundation of society and main source of societal morality. [2] According to Eatwell, the narodniks "are often seen as the first populist movement". [3] Ilya Repin's painting, Arrest of a Propagandist (1892), which depicts the arrest of a narodnik.
During the 1880s, American railroads experienced what might today be called a "bubble": investors flocked to railroads, and they were greatly over-built. [ 4 ] One of the first clear signs of trouble came on 20 February 1893, [ 5 ] twelve days before the inauguration of U.S. President Grover Cleveland , with the appointment of receivers for the ...
Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence. Prince Metternich, Austrian chancellor and foreign minister, as well as an influential leader in the Concert of Europe. The Concert of Europe describes the geopolitical order in Europe from 1814 to 1914, during which the great powers tended to act in concert to avoid wars and revolutions and generally maintain the territorial and political ...
If ever the hard right in Europe needed a set of jumper cables to rev up their electoral engine again in the wake of last month's major setback in Poland, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands provided it.
The League of the Three Emperors or Union of the Three Emperors (German: Dreikaiserbund) was an alliance between the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, from 1873 to 1887. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took full charge of German foreign policy from 1870 to his dismissal in 1890. His goal was a peaceful Europe, based on the balance of ...
The French president decided to dissolve part of parliament. What it means and what's next.
In the 1892 U.S. presidential election, the Populist ticket of James B. Weaver and James G. Field won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried four small Western states. Despite the support of labor organizers like Eugene V. Debs and Terence V. Powderly, the party largely failed to win the vote of urban laborers in the Midwest and the Northeast ...