Robert Nisbet was an American sociologist and professor who wrote <em>The Quest for Community</em>. Nisbet argued that humans had an intrinsic desire for companionship and community, and that modern society often pushed people towards individualism, which made them unhappy. He also believed in the importance of traditions in order to maintain a sense of social unity and in the idea of an "intermediate society" with intermediate institutions. He also believed this to be the only defense of the common people against the centralizing power of the nation-state.
The Selective Service Act, or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, authorized the federal government to raise a national army through conscription for American entry into World War I.
Stalin unified the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin, although it should be noted that this "unification process" involved mass killings and deportations of people Stalin deemed to be enemies of the state.
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