The origin of the word "soporific" would be Latin, since it comes from the Latin root word "sopor", which means sleep. This gives way to the current definition which means to induce sleepiness.
The Russian revolutionaries wanted something more than famine and injustice -- and that's much of what existed in Russia at that time. They wanted equality for all persons. That was a big goal of the communist agenda, and the Russian Revolution was a communist endeavor. They wanted to achieve that equality both in terms of wealth/property and in terms of political status and rights.
Was it dangerous? Absolutely. The reign of the tsars had gone on in Russia for centuries, and military victory over the tsar's armies had to be won for the revolution to succeed. And it was not going to be easy to make the nation better off, even after the revolution. The people would expect results from the new government. Those results were going to be hard to achieve.
Over time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which was the nation brought about by the Russian Revolution, has to become more and more authoritarian and repressive to keep its agenda going. And eventually that agenda failed, when about 75 years after the revolution, the USSR's government collapsed.
It was way to harsh on the Germans. It made them take full responsibility for the war and set up the stock market crash and brought the world into a depression. And pretty much was one of the may causes for world war 2
In 1914, the Philippines were under the control of the United States. Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the US replaced Spain as the colonial power and continued to engage in hostilities with the native Filipinos who wanted complete independence.
The term Aryan originally meant something completely different. In an old Indian language it means 'noble' and describes the upper class of ancient Indian society. The Nazis linked he word 'Aryan' with the German word 'Ehre', which means 'honour' and said Aryan meant 'the honourable people'.
