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French Revolution
[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp] Primary Source: Declaration of the Rights of Man (Approved by the National Assembly of France, 1789) -
Decembrist Revolt
Primary Source: "Decembrist Revolt" by Vasily Timm -- Timm was a German-Baltic painter, most notable for his documentation of battle scenes through painting and his romantic style. He also often accompanied Tsar Nicholas I on his official state foreign trips. -
July Revolution
Primary Source: "Liberty Leading the People" (1830) by Eugène Delacroix.
Eugène Delacroix was the most famous French Romantic painter of his time, who's dark, moody, and neoclassical style is a hallmark for the art time period. -
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Russian Revolution
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/bolsheviks-seize-power/bolsheviks-seize-power-texts/lenin-urges-the-immediate-seizure-of-power/ Primary source: VLADIMIR LENIN, LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. NOVEMBER 6, 1917 -
Fall of Communist Romania
https://youtu.be/D8DQ-Axi1V0
Primary Source: Death of a Dictator - ABC News - 1990 (Broadcast/journalistic footage of the communist fall in Romania, as well as commentary on other Soviet Union Satellite States)