It retained its focus on direct action and syndicalism; this meant that revolutionary currents in Spain were no longer on the fringe, but very much in the mainstream.

When Kasyan Goleizovsky was invited in 1925 to the Bolshoi, "revolutionary currents in dance tried to penetrate that company," he says.

He felt de Staël had portrayed a Germany of "poets and thinkers", dreamy, religious, introverted and cut off from the revolutionary currents of the modern world.

The ties that bound Washington to the Emperor unraveled in the revolutionary currents that swept Africa in the 1970's.

In the radicalized times at the end of World War I, democratic reforms were often seen as a means to counter popular revolutionary currents.

Sweden's power elite was, however, preoccupied with Sweden's democratization that was recently commenced by a conservative cabinet in order to quench the revolutionary currents among Swedish workers.

The congress was marked by opposing positions towards the concepts of the revolutionary and reformist currents.

In the French revolution, as in its American and English forerunners, a new revolutionary current was emerging in the opposition to the dynasty.

Such relationships allowed him to recite poems by other writers as well as gain experience with the political climate and revolutionary currents of the day.

The Batiniyya, Qarmatians and other later revolutionary currents of Islam may also be connected to Mazdakism and were often equated with it by contemporary authors.