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The British Welfare State after the Beveridge Report (1942–1951)

1942 - 1948

Thatcherite Welfare Reforms and Marketization in Britain (1979–1997)

1979 - 1997

Tenement Reform and Urban Progressive Movements in New York City (1867–1934)

1867 - 1935

Swedish Social Reform and Welfare Expansion (1932–1970)

1932 - 1965

Swahili Coast and East African Slave Trade (c. 9th–19th centuries)

801 - 1897

Stalin's Soviet Union (1924–1953)

1922 - 1953

Spice trade centered on the Banda Islands and the Moluccas (16th–17th centuries)

1494 - 1667

Spartan Helot System (c. 8th–4th century BCE)

369 - 743

Somalia under Siad Barre (1969–1991)

1969 - 1991

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–present)

1976 - 2023

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Tito (1945–1980)

1943 - 1980

Slavery in the Ancient Near East: Assyria, Babylon, and Legal Codes (c. 2000–539 BCE)

9110 BCE - 539 BCE

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