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Challenges to Social Order throughout European History
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Thomas Hobbes Publishes "Leviathan"
"Leviathan" becomes an extremely influential treatise on society, politics, and forms of government. It is very forward thinking for its time as Hobbes espouses equality between people and a 'social contract' between a government and its citizens. -
French Revolution, Robespierre's On the Principles of Political Morality
The bloody French revolution begins to face the Reign of Terror under Robespierre. Robespierre publishes this essay which outlines his goals for the Revolution and France. -
British Reform Act of 1832
The British Reform Act of 1832 was a landmark piece of legislation that wideley expanded the electorate, giving more representation to more people than ever before. Prominent among these were the new large industrial cities. The House of Commons was dramatically altered. -
Karl Marx Publishes the Communist Manifesto
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Founding of the British Labour Party
Prominent Socialist groups in the UK decide that they should form a national party. They come together to form what becomes known as the Labour Party, under Keir Hardie. -
Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government.
Lenin and his followers the Mensheviks achieve a formal degree of power. Lenin claims to be fighting for the values of a Communist Russia, but many within his ranks fear he is seeking personal power as a "Dictator of the Proleteriat".
