I'm no historian, so I'm probably wrong but... the Bolslevik revolution in Russia in the early 1900's was a populist movement against the Tzar, and I believe the current Communist regime in China started as a populist movement as well.
But like I said, I could be wrong.
...Of course neither were Islamic. My bad.
But like I said, I could be wrong.
46 posted on 09/29/2004 5:42:33 PM EDT by johnd01
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Acrually, the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 was precisely an OVERTHROW of the previously-successful populist uprising, which had caused the Tsar to abdicate in March 1917 AND which had free elections in April 1917 (ALL WHILE LENIN WAS AWAY IN SWITZERLAND).
Consequently, in a very real sense the Communists had very little to do directly with overthrowing the Tsarist government, but simply stole power seven months later from a freely-elected government.
They did, they had mass support among the peasantry in China from 1920s to 1940s. The end result, after the revolution, was a regime which was unprecedently harsh on the rural people, and now has them in a sort of slavery.
Which is not surprising, if one studies history.