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Events with high posterior probability

Qamar Zaman Kaira	His career in the national politics started in 2002 on a platform of Pakistan Peoples Party and has pioneered many articles on political philosophy while at same time, raised voice for the democracy in the country.
William Z. Foster	At the same time the Party's newspaper, then known as The Worker, published a flattering article about Foster in 1923 that identified him as a Communist, something he had to that point avoided admitting.
Suharto	With Suharto increasingly seen as the source of the country's mounting economic and political crises, prominent political figures, including Muslim politician Amien Rais, spoke out against his presidency, and in January 1998 university students began organising nation-wide demonstrations.
Anton Heinrich Springer	The liberal tone of these lectures brought him into disfavour with the ruling authorities, and in 1849 he left Bohemia and passed some time in England, France and the Netherlands.
Konstantinos Raktivan	The Goudi coup of 1909 and the subsequent entry of Eleftherios Venizelos in Greek public life marked a decisive turning-point in Raktivan's life, as he soon became one of the Cretan politician's closest collaborators.
Hassan Hattab	Hattab left the GIA in 1996, rejecting its takfir ist policy of massacring Algerian civilians en masse and accusing it of being infiltrated by the Algerian secret services.
Rosa Luxemburg	In an article published just before the October Revolution, Luxemburg characterized the Russian February Revolution of 1917 as a'' revolution of the proletariat'', and said that the'' liberal bourgeoisie'' were pushed to movement by the display of'' proletarian power.''
Sophie Adlersparre	Adlersparre became interested to involve actively in feminist questions after her friend Rosalie Roos, a woman highly interested in social matters, had returned to Sweden in 1855 after years of travels abroad.
Boris Pahor	He grew closer to Liberal Democratic positions and in 1966, together with fellow writer from Trieste Alojz Rebula, he founded the journal Zaliv (The Bay), in which he sought to defend'' traditional democratic pluralism'' against the totalitarian cultural policies of Communist Yugoslavia.
Georgy Arbatov	In his 1992 autobiography'' The System : An Insider's Life in Soviet Politics'', Arbatov credited himself as one of those individuals who had worked to implement reform'' from the inside, and not from the outside, of the system'' that laid the groundwork for the reforms implemented in the 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Ali Khamenei	In his speeches Khamenei regularly mentions many familiar themes of the 1979 revolution : justice, independence, self-sufficiency, Islamic government and resolute opposition to Israel and United States, while rarely mentioning other revolutionary ideals such as democracy and greater government transparency.
Kurt Weill	Weill was active in political movements encouraging American entry into World War II, and after America joined the war in 1941, Weill enthusiastically collaborated in numerous artistic projects supporting the war effort both abroad and on the home front.
Elena Cuza	She remained, however, very devoted to her husband in their public life, and was responsible for securing his flight from the country in 1848, after Prince Mihail Sturdza began arresting participants in the Moldavian revolutionary movement.
Jan Romein	In 1927 he left the communist party, but he remained interested in Marxism and in the political development of the Soviet Union and of Asia.
Karl Kautsky	Following the death of Engels in 1895, Kautsky became one of the most important and influential theoreticians of Marxism, representing the mainstream of the party together with August Bebel, and outlining a Marxist theory of imperialism.
Guy Debord	In the early 1960s, Debord began to direct the SI toward an end of its artistic phase, eventually excluding members such as Jorn, Gallizio, Troche, and Constant, the bulk of the ` artistic' wing of the SI, by 1965.
Robin Cohen	In The new Helots (1987), he suggested that Marx had underestimated the continuing salience of migrant labour, a feature that allowed capitalism to thrive and thereby evade the fundamental confrontation between worker and employer that Marx predicted.
Alceste De Ambris	Although linked to the beginnings of Fascism through his attitude in 1914 and the support he gave D'Annunzio, De Ambris became a vocal opponent of Partito Nazionale Fascista and Mussolini's dictatorship.
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon	In 1848 the revolution in France let loose fresh elements of discord, which culminated in an abortive insurrection, and for a lengthened period Ireland was a prey to more than her wonted symptoms of disaffection and disorder.
Paolo Orano	Orano became a strong critic of democracy, seeing it as the cause of Italy's ills and his rhetoric, along with that of fellow syndicalists such as Filippo Corridoni and Angelo Olivetti, was by 1914 very similar to that coming from the Italian Nationalist Association.
Angela Davis	When she returned to the United States her socialist leanings increasingly influenced her understanding of race struggles within the U. S. In a New York City speech on July 9, 1975, Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn told an AFL-CIO meeting that Davis was derelict in having failed to support prisoners in various socialist countries around the world, given her stark opposition to the U. S. prison system.
Franti?ek Ladislav Rieger	Rieger's first venture into the political scene of Czech politics came with the Revolution of 1848.
Ivan Franko	One of his articles, Sotsiializm i sotsiial-demokratyzm (Socialism and Social Democracy), a severe criticism of Ukrainian Social Democracy and the socialism of Marx and Engels, was published in 1898 in the journal Zhytie i Slovo, which he and his wife founded.
Margaret Sanger	After World War I, Sanger shifted away from radical politics, and she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) in 1921 to enlarge her base of supporters to include the middle class.
Hans Martin Sutermeister	As school director, he promoted comprehensive school s. Although he had a reputation as a progressive within his party, he also stirred some concern both inside and outside the party by fiercely criticizing The Little Red Schoolbook, an educational manifesto deriving from the 1968 student protest movement that urged students to reject societal norms.
David R. Courtney	It was in 2004 that he started to make the transition from street level political activism to partisan politics.
Huber Matos	Matos had opposed Batista since the general's effective coup in 1952, which he regarded as unconstitutional, but became increasingly critical of the movement's shift towards Marxist principles, and closening ties with leaders of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
Amadeo Sabattini	Around 1952 he begin a pragmatic alliance with other opposing groups, after the increasingly autocratic Perón's seizure of a number of critical newspapers and his detention of prominent opponents.
Avetis Sultan-Zade	A radical turn of the Communist International away from temporizing with non-communist nationalist movements paved the way for Sultan-Zade's return to the political leadership of the Persian Communist Party in 1927.
Jean Malaquais	(Beginning in 1942 and continuing after the war, he was a member of the Left Communist group Gauche communiste de France ; in the United States, he was loosely affiliated with a number of non-Communist left groups.)
Irving Babbitt	From a position of high prominence in the 1920s, having the effective but questionable support of The Bookman, New Humanism experienced a drop from fashionable status after Babbitt died in 1933 and modernist and progressive currents became increasingly dominant in American intellectual, cultural and political life.
Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild	Because he concentrated his business activity in Switzerland and was rarely part of the extravagant social life his cousins Elie, Guy and Alain led in Paris, his bank avoided nationalization when the Socialists led by François Mitterrand came to power in France in 1980.
Nicola Barbato	He joined the socialist movement around 1878 and in the then prevailing positivist climate he devoted himself to study psychiatry.
Mao Zedong	Helping to organise workers' strikes in the winter of 1920 -- 21, he was involved in the movement for Hunan autonomy, hoping that a Hunanese constitution would increase civil liberties in the province, making his revolutionary activity easier ; although the movement was successful, in later life, he denied any involvement.
Osend? Afana	Details of his activity in the period that followed are sketchy, but Osendé Afana seems to have made several visits to the extremely poor Moloundou region, where he made contact with the local people, mostly Baka s. On 1 September 1965 a small party led by Asana entered Moloundou, mainly aiming to educate the people rather than start an uprising, but was forced to leave quickly.
Antonio Maceo Grajales	Maceo, with the experience and wisdom gained from previous revolutionary failures, argued that there were a number of impediments to military success in a brief but intense epistolary exchange with Martí, warning about the causes of the partial defeat in the Ten Years' War (1868 -- 78).
Emil Isac	While Goga, defended by Endre Ady during his political imprisonment of 1912, soon disappointed the group with his antisemitic rhetoric and his uncompromising stance, Isac remained close to the liberal or left-wing Hungarian circles.
August Cieszkowski	Marx, who was a friend of and collaborator with Hess from a few years from 1841 onwards, owes various aspects of his thought on alienation and the nature of and transition to communist society to Cieszkowski, including that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in revolutionary praxis.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	The rumors and constant talk of his, and his family's corruption greatly damaged his reputation and lead to the creation of the Pahlavi Foundation in the same year and the return of some 2,000 villages inherited by his father back to the people often at very low and discount prices, however it can be argued that this was too little too late as the royal family's wealth and corruption can be seen as one of the factors behind the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Avraam Benaroya	In Thessaloniki he had a difficult political life, especially after the Liberals' more nationalist turn by the end of the decade, and the repeated coups d' État of 1935 that destroyed the Republic as well as the hopes of the democratic left.
Ousmane Tanor Dieng	Since 1988, he developed interest in politics as a result of being the President's speech writer ; thus, he began to invest so much in his village.
Abd al-Karim Qasim	The 1958 Revolution can be heralded as a watershed in Iraqi politics, not just because of its obvious political implications (e. g. the abolition of monarchy, republicanism, and paving the way for Ba’athist rule) but due to domestic reform.
George F. Kennan	In June 1948, Kennan proposed covert support of left-wing parties not oriented toward Moscow and to labor unions in Western Europe in order to engineer a rift between Moscow and working-class movements in Western Europe.
Matti Vanhanen	In his column in Suomenmaa in 1985, Vanhanen condemned the Baltic independence movement both for'' wishing to change the Soviet system'' and for'' indifference towards the post Second World War reality.''
Avetis Sultan-Zade	after 1922 Sultan-Zade no longer was the decisive figure in determining the political line of the Persian Communist Party.
Allan Nairn	In 1980, Nairn visited Guatemala in the middle of a campaign of assassination against student leaders amidst a chaotic counterinsurgency campaign against Marxist guerrillas active in both urban and rural areas.
Konstantin P?ts	During the 1905 Revolution, he was considered to be a socialist, as many of the progressive ideas were considered socialist at the time.
S. S. Van Dine	A Germanophile, Wright did not support America's decision to join the Allied cause in World War I, and he was blackballed from journalism for more than two years after an over-zealous secretary (erroneously) accused him of spying for Germany, an episode that became a much-publicized scandal in New York in November 1917 and cost him his friendship with Mencken and Dreiser.
Bernardine Dohrn	-LSB-... -RSB- We discovered thru our own experiences what revolutionaries all over the world have found -- that Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution, the revolutionary ideology of the working class, our guide to the struggle -LSB-... -RSB-'' According to a 1974 FBI study of the group, Dohrn's article signaled a developing commitment to Marxism-Leninism that had not been clear in the group's previous statements, despite their trips to Cuba and contact with Vietnamese communists there.
Mary of Teck	As queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the First World War, his ill-health and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war and the rise of socialism and nationalism.
Anthony Powell	Despite a holiday trip to the Soviet Union in 1936, he remained unsympathetic to the popular-front, Leftist politics of many of his literary and critical contemporaries.
Jules Baroche	After 1848, however, he became associated with right wing politics and particularly with the purge of leftist and royalist judges from the French courts and with the defense of the many press censorship laws passed as the republic became increasingly authoritarian.
Gustavo Cochet	Cochet became more politically involved afterwards, and from 1935 participated in the Iberian Anarchist Federation, speaking and reflecting on the rights of artists in what he considered an era of revolution.
Carol Brouillet	Carol Brouillet was deeply affected by the terrorism events that took place in the United States on September 11, 2001.
S?ndor Festetics	After a spell away from politics, Festetics, who had become convinced of Nazism, took charge of the tiny Hungarian National Socialist Peoples Party in 1933, using the fortune he had inherited from his uncle Prince Tasziló to seek to expand the group.
Antonio Albadran	He started college in Iraq in late 1988, where he had lived through the Iran-Iraq war and the U. S. invasion of Iraq, as well as being subjected to political abuse from the Saddam Hussein regime as he was jailed for his political differences with the Baath party ideology during his college years.
Evgen Gvaladze	In spite of continuing social activity under the Soviet government, he never abandoned his political positions and led, from 1926, the underground conspirative group of the Georgian national political organization Tetri Giorgi.
Maurice Spector	Spector was influenced by Trotsky's work The Bolsheviki and World Peace, which was published in the Toronto Mail and Empire in January 1918, and by Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDP) Dominion Secretary Isaac Bainbridge who introduced him to Lenin's writings and inspired him to join the SDP.
Carlos Fuentes	Initially a supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, Fuentes turned against Castro after being branded a'' traitor'' to Cuba in 1965 for attending a New York conference The Guardian described him as accomplishing'' the rare feat for a leftwing Latin American intellectual of adopting a critical attitude towards Fidel Castro's Cuba without being dismissed as a pawn of Washington.''
Denis Fahey	Fahey had been closely involved with Edward Cahill's An Ríoghacht study group, although following Cahill's death in 1941 this organisation became more mainstream and less concerned with conspiracy theories.
Thol. Thirumavalavan	He began growing interested in politics in 1982, when he was still a student, in reaction to reports from refugee s of Sri Lankan military atrocities against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Michel Foucault	Foucault did so in 1950, but never became particularly active in its activities, and never adopted an orthodox Marxist viewpoint, refuting core Marxist tenets such as class struggle.
Ion Luca Caragiale	Ion Luca Caragiale also associated with Junimeas mouthpiece, Convorbiri Literare, and continued to contribute there even after 1885, when the society began to decline in importance.
Alexandru Macedonski	In 1874 that he came to the attention of young journalist future dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale, who satirized him in articles for the magazine Ghimpele, ridiculing his claim to Lithuanian descent, and eventually turning him into the character Aamsky, whose fictional career ends with his death from exhaustion caused by contributing to'' for the country's political development''.
Dick Spring	However, he did conduct, for the first time, a public consultative process that involved a wide range of citizenry and social groups as well as members of the diaspora, in the re-shaping of Irish foreign policy through the first ever White Paper on Foreign Policy in 1996.
Alfred Richard Orage	In the privately published Third Series of writings, Gurdjieff wrote of Orage and his wife Jessie, ″ his romance had ended in his marrying the saleswoman of' Sunwise Turn,' a young American pampered out of all proportion to her position... ″ In May 1930, Orage returned to England and became seriously involved with political issues and was paramount in re-sparking interest in the Social Credit Movement.
Mehdi Ben Barka	Ben Barka was exiled in 1963, becoming a'' travelling salesman of the revolution'', according to the historian Jean Lacouture.
Mehdi Bazargan	Bazargan co-founded the Liberation Movement of Iran in 1961, He was seen as one of the democratic and liberal figureheads of the revolution who came into conflict with the more radical religious leaders -- including Khomeini himself -- as the revolution progressed.
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie	His well-intentioned policies, especially the doctrine of lapse, contributed to a growing sense of discontent among sectors of Indian society and therefore greatly contributed to the Great Indian Uprising of 1857, which directly followed his departure from India.
Robert Blatchford	By 1889 Blatchford's influence was beginning to be fully felt and the Clarion movement was having a profound effect on the Labour movement.
Takeo Arishima	In 1922, Arishima implemented the socialist philosophy he had been developing by renunciation of the ownership of a large tenant farm in Hokkaidō, which he had inherited from his father, publicly stating that he wanted to distance himself from the petit bourgeois in the coming revolution.
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare	thumb | upright | left | Statue overlooking the Main Building of Cardiff University The defeat of the Liberal government in the following year terminated Lord Aberdare's official political life, and he subsequently devoted himself to social, educational and economic questions.
Michael Puntervold	He became an important person in the labour movement in 1904 when publishing the pamphlet Antimilitarismen via Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund.
Germain Metternich	In 1850 he immigrated to the United States as part of a larger wave of politically active Forty-Eighters, following the defeat of that movement in continental Europe, and remained politically active in his new, democratic homeland.
Alecu Constantinescu	At the end 1902 he departed for Paris, France, however he kept contacts with Romanian workers' movement, occasionally sending articles for the socialist newspaper 1 Mai ('' May Day'').
Jomo Kwame Sundaram	His father Shree Kaliana Sundaram died in February 1974 after a distinguished military record in Europe, Africa and Asia during the Second World War and subsequent civic activism including the independence, cooperative and labour movements.
Alexandre del Valle	In an article published in April 2002, French far-left-trotskyst organisation Ras l'front claims that Alexandre Del Valle had originally set out its arguments in far right-wing circles, especially during lectures at meetings of the ultra right or the New Right.
Julio Argentino Roca	Roca did not participate in the 1890 revolution, which was instigated by Leandro N. Alem and Bartolomé Mitre (Unión Cívica, later Unión Cívica Radical).
Otto von Bismarck	As the debate continued, Wilhelm became increasingly interested in social problems, especially the treatment of mine workers who went on strike in 1889, and keeping with his active policy in government, routinely interrupted Bismarck in Council to make clear his social policy.
William Lane	The defeat of the 1891 Australian shearers' strike convinced Lane that there would be no real social change without a completely new society, and The Worker became increasingly devoted to his New Australia utopian idea.
Rob du Bois	Many of the demonstrators, such as Louis Andriessen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg, and Peter Schat were Bois's close friends and, a month or two after the Nutcracker Action, Bois led -- together with Konrad Boehmer and Sytze Smit -- working groups mobilised under the general leadership of Mengelberg in support of `` a radical and democratic renewal of musical life'' (Beer 1994).
Inky Mark	Ideologically, Mark may be defined as a fiscal conservative with some leanings toward social conservatism (although he has not emphasized the latter in his speeches or campaigns), holding progressive views on issues involving cultural change within Canada as evidenced by the 2001 bureaucratic bumble which lead to the controversial deportation of the Sklarzyk family.
Faisal II of Iraq	Faisal attained his majority on 2 May 1953, commencing his active rule with little experience and during a changing Iraqi political and social climate, exacerbated by the rapid development of pan-Arab nationalism.
Desmond Fennell	His principal themes in the Connemara period (1968 -- 79) were the'' revolution'' of the Gaeltacht or Irish-speaking districts (which he helped to initiate and in which he participated, drawing on Maoist ideas) and advocating, in imitation of the revival of Hebrew, migration of the nation's scattered Irish speakers to the Gaeltacht to build there the base for the restoration of Irish ; the pursuit of a settlement in Northern Ireland at war ; decentralisation of Irish government to regions and districts ; and a'' Europe of Regions''.
Claude Lefort	Differences of opinion brought about a schism within Socialism or Barbarism, and Lefort sided with Henri Simon, one of the founders of'' Informations et liasions ouvrières'' (Workers News and Affairs) in 1958.
David Moriarty	In his political views he ran counter to much of the popular feeling of the time, and was a notable opponent of the Fenian organization, which he denounced strongly, particularly following the uprising in 1867 in his diocese where in an infamous sermon he attacked the Fenian leadership brandishing them criminals, swindlers and God's heaviest curse Still, he was a great Irish patriot of the type of Daniel O'Connell, for whom he had a great admiration.
Ibrahim Imam	A year later, he joined Aminu Kano's Northern Elements Progressive Union and in 1956, he became the patron of the Borno Youth Movement, a young organization that had grown out of its members disappointment with the native authority in Borno and the scandal of the Waziri, Mohammed.
Avraham Shlonsky	thumb | 200px | right | Avraham Shlonsky, 1936 Gradually, he became the representative of the'' rebel'' group that rebelled against the poetry of Bialik and his generation, expressing a particular aversion to what was seen as their characteristic clichés.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle	His pro-European views expressed in 1928 were soon followed by closer contacts with employers' organizations, among them Ernest Mercier's Redressement Français, and then, at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, with some currents of the Radical Party.
Nicholas Roerich	Peaks and passes named in honor of the Roerich family After the February Revolution of 1917 and the collapse of the tsarist regime, Roerich, a political moderate who placed spiritual values and Russia's cultural heritage above ideology and party politics, played an active part in artistic politics.
Jarallah Omar	When Jarallah returned to the country in 1995, he developed a reputation as a leading advocate of human rights and political freedoms in the authoritarian political climate of Yemen.
Googoosh	After the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, Googoosh, like other artists, had been forbidden from performing and her material had been banned.
Edogawa Ranpo	Over the course of World War II, especially during the full-fledged war between Japan and the US that began after in 1941, Edogawa was active in his local patriotic, neighborhood organization, and he wrote a number of stories about young detectives and sleuths that might be seen as in line with the war effort, but he wrote most of these under different pseudonyms as if to disassociate them with his legacy.
Arthur Meyer (journalist)	Meyer converted to Catholicism in 1901 without ceasing to be the target of the anti-Semitic activist group Action Française.
Huber Matos	In July 1959, Matos made public denunciations of the direction the revolution was taking, with openly anti-communist speeches in Camagüey.
William David McCain	After 1953, McCain threw himself into developing the moribund organization into an influential force in Mississippi and Southern politics, and a valuable personal political power base.
Carl Eduard Hellmayr	After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, he was arrested and briefly jailed for reasons that are not fully known but probably related to his unsympathic views toward the Nazi party (Hellmayr did not make political statements in public, but his interest -- as an amateur historian -- in the French Revolution shows that he was more than casually interested in such topics).
John Saville	Breaking his affiliation with the cluster of British Marxist historians known as the Communist Party Historians Group, Saville emerged as one of the supporters of the New Reasoner group of dissident Marxists who condemned the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956.
Brice Lalonde	Lalonde was a student leader during the May 1968 student uprisings in France, when riots and upheaval scared the French population away from Revolution and the old Left, but toward an adaptive and calmer socialism.
Jorge Sampaio	After the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, Sampaio funded Movimento de Esquerda Socialista (MES) (Portuguese acronym for Socialist Left Movement) but abandoned the political project soon after.