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Introduction
| Barbarism Did you know?• In 1900, New Zealand was the only country where women were allowed to vote in elections (since 1893). Australian women got the vote in 1902. • In Petrograd, the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power cost the party only five casualties. In Moscow, they lost dozens of activists in six days of bitter street fighting. • The film of the storming of the Winter Palace during the 1917 October Revolution in Russia was staged after the event – the actual seizure of power was never filmed. • Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries (posthumously published in 1996) tell the story of his motorcycle trip around Latin America in the early 1950s. • At the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, August 1968, the radical Yippie youth group put forward a pig, called Pegasus, as their alternative presidential candidate. It was confiscated by the police. • At the Mexico Olympics in October 1968, two winning black sprinters – gold medallist Tommie Smith and bronze medallist John Carlos – gave revolutionary clenched-fist salutes in solidarity with Black Power. • When feminist Germaine Greer published a selection of her journalistic writings in 1986, she called her book The Madwoman's Underclothes. • The German Green Party won 5.6% of the vote in the 1983 general election, and has been represented in the Bundestag ever since. See also A century of conflict and A century of contrasts |
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