Puritans facing religious persecution in England set out for the New World, ... to be colonized by the English in the first half of the 17th century, New England, ... Puritans demanded reforms that undermined the traditional festive culture. .... What aspects of later American political values do you see in it? ...
I believe it is the first one.
The official definition of a republic is any state that doesn’t have a monarch. That said, republicanism and republics have been closely affiliated with democracy, because the reason most people hated monarchs in the first place, was because they were not elected by the population.
So while Stalin was right on paper, it is quite misleading because it might lead to some people believing Stalinist Soviet Union was democratic, when in fact it was a dictatorship.
In 1936, Hitler marched 22,000 troops into the Rhineland
The Dorians moved into the Greek world and reigned for about 400 years and left no written record. They were known to have a diverse way of life, and their social organization was diverse as well.