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- ) (November 15, 1925 – December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident ... Fred Coleman, The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire : Forty Years ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—Franklin D. Roosevelt ... concern did not translate into action. The Soviet leader refused to travel ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- ) (January 27, 1891 – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist ... Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei ... went under-appreciated by contemporary Soviet critics (who found some of ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- were incorporated into the great Mongol Empire and in the fifteenth century ... the region became an Autonomous Soviet Republic in 1919. This became ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- both of which were satirical treatments of Soviet power. Zinoviev coined the ... ==After the fall of the Soviet empire== Zinoviev changed his critical ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- – January 12, 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman ... of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- Curtain” separating Western Europe and Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe ... south, the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam was strong. The ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... in creating heavy industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 2023
- – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ... and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire, Isaac Babel survived the ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- significant role in the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and ... only in Poland, a satellite state of the Soviet Union ruled (in practice ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- treaty concluded between the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom ... between the mother land and the Muslim empire in the South. Some subsequent ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the split, the ... Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- by carving up former German and Ottoman Empire possession among themselves ... managed to inflict a defeat on the 11th Soviet Army and capture the North ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- to build what was to become a successful journalism empire. ... the brothers continued to expand their empire, and purchased the Sunday ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- theory was further discredited when the Soviet empire, which occupied the Heartland ... valid since the collapse of the Soviet Empire, conflicts between communist ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, ... to engineer advantages for his "empire," his successors needed ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- and finally KGB during the history of the Soviet Union. The agency became ... became a symbol of repression in the Soviet bloc as well, and as such ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- Rebuilt as the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 C.E. by Constantine ... known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Constantinople ("City ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- 428, briefly being annexed to the Roman Empire by Trajan from 114 to 118 ... The region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and eventually taken ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Cherkasy Oblast, ... In 1844, distressed by the condition of Ukraine in the Russian Empire ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- to wage the war against the Eritreans with Soviet assistance. With Soviet and ... with massive military assistance from the Soviet Union and Cuba. Ethiopia ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an empire. He has a reputation of inveterate ... Gediminas established Lithuania as an empire, controlling trade, military ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- were killed, and has been part of the Soviet empire. Moldova is one of the ... at the time Chişinău was part of the Russian Empire. The city is ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- alone in opposition to Hitler until the Soviet Union and the United States ... Republic of China had been fighting the Empire of Japan since 1937. ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- early twentieth century. As part of the Soviet Union, the central government ... to struggle from the after-effects of Soviet occupation and civil war ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... was passed. The following day, the Soviet elected a Council of People ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- forced to stay in Karafuto after the Soviet invasion typically go by ... Aside from migration within the Empire of Japan or its puppet state ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early ... After the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union was too poor for any ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- in the history of Georgia, the era of empire, military exploits, and remarkable ... still remains controversial. Several Soviet-era historians of Georgia ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- is intent on establishing a new, worldwide empire based on military power. ... industries and political structures of the Soviet Union, and it has also been ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- it was incorporated into the Russian Empire. A brief period of independence ... archaeology). After the fall of the Roman Empire, of which most of south-eastern ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- way he managed the dismantling of the Soviet empire, allowing the Berlin ... * Remnick, David. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- up to and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, that considers Russia ... West, but identifies with the Byzantine Empire rather than with Central ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- which caused great conflict with Soviet authorities. His great courage ... he won the gold medal in the first ever Soviet Union competition for young ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- to Judea during the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.E.). With ... prey to the ambition of the growing Roman Empire. In 63 B.C.E., the military ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgi Malenkov ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- during the Cold War both American and Soviet agencies used journalists ... as those between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. On January 1 ... successor states of Austria-Hungary, whose Empire had been slowly losing ground ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- in content," became the basis for all Soviet art and made heroes of previously ... renamed Gorky in his honor during the Soviet era but restored to its original ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the period following ... all remnant religious institutions in the Soviet Union. He also supported ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... Eastern European states that were in the Soviet sphere of influence after ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire ... #039;s efforts failed and when the Soviet empire, which occupied the Heartland ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ... The immediate roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the Qing Empire, ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- forces of the United States and the Soviet Union since the end of World ... up to that point had been occupied by the Empire of Japan, was divided along ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent ... became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the split, the ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty ... support. From 1881, the finances of the Empire were supervised by the Ottoman ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- She is credited with helping develop the Soviet library system. ... was also fundamental in the development of Soviet librarianship. Her relationship ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- – December 6, 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, ... the revolution. They were executed by the Soviet regime (one in 1918, the ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- War II. The East had been a member of the Soviet bloc, the West was allied ... that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the East German ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- the imperial government and later by the Soviet Union, but flourished in ... repression and collectivization under the Soviet Union reduced the numbers ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 22:47, 29 January 2023
- #039;s satiric short stories of the Soviet state and his masterpiece ... The play was a compulsory work in Russian literature lessons in Soviet ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred to themselves as ... United States had declared war against the Empire of Japan. Japan had been ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- assigned to be the first ambassador to the Soviet Union. She served there briefly ... on behalf of Hungarians being deported by Soviet authorities, saying, "My ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- ancient monarchy, the Ethiopians enjoyed Soviet Union support until the end ... For long periods it was under the Ottoman Empire before becoming an Italian ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- the first Christian nation. The Roman Empire did not adopt Christianity ... sphere of influence of the Roman Empire ended the peace since the ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- The city came under Soviet rule in 1918. During World War II, it accommodated ... and water sources, the result of the Soviet Union testing almost 500 ...17 KB (2,420 words) - 08:16, 23 July 2023
- from the ancient capital of the Parthian Empire. Some of the earliest traces ... Soviet rule was established, lost, and then regained in 1917, and ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- When the Soviet Union threatened to intervene on behalf of Egypt, ... and was a milestone in the decline of the British Empire. ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- Menshevik. On March 1, 1917, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers ... official accounts of the revolution by the Soviet Union would depict the events ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. Prior to the nineteenth ... literature came under the control of the Soviet policy of Socialist realism ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- activity between the United States, the Soviet Union, and allies on both ... and recruiting Americans to the Soviet cause. According to Kalugin ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- outpost and harbor of the Sassanid empire. During the fifth and sixth ... became part of the Russian Empire. The region was embroiled in Caucasian ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- , Vitebsk gubernia (province) of Russian Empire. Lossky undertook post-graduate ... Philosophers' ship (in 1922) from the Soviet Union as a counter-revolutionary. ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- the break-out from the besieged Jiangxi Soviet that began the 6,000-mile ... Song Jiaoren "to overthrow the Manchu empire and to restore China to the ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 15:28, 3 December 2022
- ), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician. He was an Old Bolshevik ... authored a letter that claimed the Soviet Union was using the Labor ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 2023
- However, the heavy use of agrochemicals during the era under the Soviet ... 500 B.C.E. as vassal state in the Persian Empire. Later it passed into the ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- , the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves ... dynasty. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Koreans in Russia ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- the end of the war, however, the Ottoman Empire no longer ruled any European ... of Croatia (925-1102) and the Serbian Empire and kindled the desire to ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Truman Administration policy, led Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin to conclude ... the Cold War would be won by isolating the Soviet Union and ensuring that the ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- history, invaders included the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, Muslim ... Kabul during his conquest of the Persian Empire. The city later became part ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- to December 1st, 1943, following the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was ... Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by invading the Soviet Union. Shortly after the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- Sassanid Persians, the Eastern Roman Empire, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Safavid ... Widespread population resettlements under the Russian Empire, and ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ... During Soviet times, Baku was a vacation destination where citizens ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- A Vision Unfulfilled: Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century ... a command economy like that found in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, but rather ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- becoming little more than an editor for Soviet newsreels. ... Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire, he Russified his Jewish ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- Heifetz was an outspoken critic of the government of the Soviet Union ... Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. There is controversy over ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- whose government was backed up by the Soviet armies of occupation in 1947; ... full independence from the Ottoman Empire (Treaty of Berlin, 1878) ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- with life in Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. The Bridge on the Drina ... then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Originally named Ivan, he ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- in 1365, and became the capital of the empire of Timur, during which time ... of agrochemicals during the era under the Soviet Union, when diversion of ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Decades of environmental neglect during the Soviet era combined with ... With the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, a provisional government ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... full-time, becoming one of the many Soviet politicians who took part ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- The Ottoman Empire often treated prisoners of war poorly. Some 11 ... in large numbers while in captivity. The Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- |combatant1=Russian Empire |combatant2=German Empire |commander1=Alexander ... a decisive engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- Russians during the early stages of the Soviet occupation of Sakhalin. In ... During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Empire of Japan controlled the ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- polity. Faced with Ottoman expansion, the empire then disintegrated into a ... and sent into internal exile within the Soviet Union. There is no evidence ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- were constructed on the Volga during the Soviet era. They are: ... lower reaches of the Volga. Later their empire divided into the Khanate ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. A Russian Provisional Government ... and made a proposal to the Petrograd Soviet to form a coalition government ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- ====Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia==== The Soviet Union was a totalitarian state and the Communist Party ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- around the site in the 1970s, before the Soviet invasion of 1979 once again ... The Ghurid Empire's glory waned after the death of Ghiyath ud ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar ... the leadership struggle, representing the Soviet Union in the League of Nations ...35 KB (4,665 words) - 20:09, 31 August 2023
- ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic ... Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. A Russian Provisional Government ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- formerly been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from becoming part of Czechoslovakia ... Czechoslovakia also had a treaty with the Soviet Union, and Stalin indicated ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... under Cossack, Austrian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet rule. ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ... but through conquest became the largest empire in history, spanning from ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. ... in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Soviet Ministry of Culture made ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Socialism in Germany under Hitler and the Soviet-style developed by Lenin ... said to have eventually won over the Roman Empire by their attitude and exemplary ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- March 27, 1886 – December 1, 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik ... Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
