Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

The gouvernement provisoire de la République française, or GPRF, operated under a tripartisme alliance of communists, socialists, and democratic republicans.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

In politics, a red-green alliance is an alliance of " red " social-democratic or democratic socialist parties with " green " environmentalist parties.

A Red-Green alliance is an alliance between Green parties and social democratic parties.

Article 1 of the State Constitution describes China as " a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship " meaning that the system is based on an alliance of the working classes — in communist terminology, the workers and peasants — and is led by the Communist Party, the vanguard of the working class.

Elsewhere, the Constitution provides for a renewed and vital role for the groups that make up that basic alliance — the CPPCC, democratic parties, and mass organizations.

Thucydides tells that in April 431 BC, an armed force of 300 Thebans commanded by two leading Theban generals / politicians were admitted after dark on a stormy moonless night into Plataea by two private citizens who expected the Theban force to immediately capture and kill the democratic leaders and bring Plataea into alliance with Thebes.

The International Democrat Union ( IDU ) is a centre-right international alliance of conservative, Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political parties.

The Liberal Reformist Party ( PRL ) and the regionalist Francophone Democratic Federalists ( FDF ) started the alliance in 1993, and were joined in 1998 by the progressive Christian democratic Citizens ' Movement for Change ( MCC ).

Prime Minister Bhutto began facing considerable criticism and increasing unpopularity as his term progressed, the democratic socialists alliance who had previously allied with Bhutto began to diminish as time progresses.

However, in the midst of their travels, Lafiel and Jinto ( along with the Abh ship Gothlauth, aka Gosroth ) find themselves at the very beginnings of a war between the Abh Empire and the Four Nations Alliance of humankind — an anti-Abh alliance of the democratic nations of the United Mankind, the Federation of Hania, the Republic of Greater Alcont, and the People's Sovereign Union of Planets.

The Project of this alliance also clearly reflected his belief in necessity of democratic development for Czechoslovakia and other European states as well.

One of the most important political consequences of the Nazi experience in Western Europe was the establishment of new, human rights-based political alliances which eventually became the European Union and an international military alliance of democratic European countries known as NATO to counterbalance the Soviets ' Warsaw Pact and Comintern until communist rule in Eastern Europe ended in the late 1980s.

National Unity () was a Peruvian center-right, mainly Christian democratic electoral alliance.

In December 2011, the major setback was suffered by Peoples Party when its leading democratic socialists and senior members, for instance, Shah Mahmood Kureshi and Malik Ali Khan left the Peoples Party, saying that " they did not agree with how President Zardari was leading the party particularly with regards to an alliance with centre-right PML ( Q ) and the foreign policy.

Specifically, many realist critics claim that the effect ascribed to democratic, or liberal, peace, is in fact due to alliance ties between democratic states which in turn are caused, one way or another, by realist factors.

Rosato ( 2003 ) argues that most of the significant evidence for democratic peace has been observed after World War II ; and that it has happened within a broad alliance, which can be identified with NATO and its satellite nations, imposed and maintained by American dominance ( see Pax Americana ).

In March 1990 the first democratic alliance, called Ardchilsan Kholboo, launched a hunger strike urging that the communists resign.

Britain's Road to Socialism proposes that socialism can be achieved in Britain by the working class leading the other classes in a popular democratic anti-monopoly alliance against monopoly capital, and implementing a left-wing programme of socialist construction.

* Red-green alliance, an alliance of " red " social democratic or democratic socialist parties with " green " environmentalist parties

Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

Man, through democratic institutions of government and economic freedom, was master of his destiny.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

left In keeping with his democratic ideals, Mackenzie refused the offer of a knighthood three times, and was thus the only one of Canada's first eight Prime Ministers not to be knighted.

Historians differ on which of them was responsible for which institution, and which of them most represented a truly democratic movement.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

But any stepping forward into the democratic limelight was risky and if someone chose ( another citizen initiator ) they could be called to account for their actions and punished.

Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).

In 317 BC he returned with an army of mercenaries under a solemn oath to observe the democratic constitution which was then set up.

In March 1989, Sakharov was elected to the new parliament, the All-Union Congress of People's Deputies and co-led the democratic opposition, the Inter-Regional Deputies Group.

* Christian Reformists ( Cristiano Riformisti ) was a minor Christian democratic faction.

This federalist, democratic constitution was heavily influenced by the U. S. model.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Finally, on 10 November 1989, at the November plenum of BCP Todor Zhivkov was dismissed as a long-time party leader and head of state and the communist regime gave way to democratic elections and government.

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

In the 1960s, relations with Cuba were broken by the Bolivian dictatorship following Castro's rise to power but resumed under the Paz Estenssoro Administration in 1985, which was elected through democratic elections.

During 1782, Vergennes committed French troops to put down a democratic revolution in the Republic of Geneva, which had broken out the previous year.

By early 1940, however, Gollancz had broken with the CP, a process documented in the articles collected in Betrayal of the Left in early 1941, and from then on the club took a strongly democratic socialist line until its demise in 1948.