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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | | A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The Soviet system of Gulag slave labour camps is introduced, under the control of the secret service, the Cheka | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Mussolini's Fascist party rapidly acquires an aggressive presence, thanks to his gangs of armed thugs in their blackshirt uniforms | |
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| 1921 |
| | | With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed | |
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| 1927 |
| | | In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder | |
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