Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (The Bicycle--Ch. 2)

Kelly Cook (United States of America)
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  1. revolutionary
    markedly new or introducing radical change
  2. Fidel Castro
    Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
  3. Che Guevara
    an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army (1928-1967)
  4. Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)
  5. Arab
    a member of a Semitic people from the Middle East
  6. Mongol
    of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures
  7. imperialism
    a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
  8. philosopher
    a specialist in the investigation of existence and knowledge
  9. Rene Descartes
    French philosopher and mathematician
  10. Karl Marx
    founder of modern communism
Created on Tue Nov 05 09:14:01 EST 2013 (updated Sat Dec 14 18:50:23 EST 2013)

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