Search results for "Great Purges;" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • rather unsatisfactory method led to a great deal of private settling ... *Great Purges *Khmer Rouge ==Notes== ==References== * Albats, Yevgenia ...
    22 KB (3,197 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
  • by the representatives of Germany—Hitler, Great Britain—Neville Chamberlain ... were created in Poland, France, and Great Britain, coordinated by the ...
    21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
  • Because of the doubts before screening, and the great anticipation ... cancer in 1954, after surviving Stalin's purges. ===Influence=== ...
    19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
  • lead to its destruction, making occasional purges necessary. ... Union. This came to be known as the 'Great Turn', as Russia turned ...
    25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
  • who left Dvinsk in the wake of the Cossack purges, including two of his brothers. ... be an artist, especially at a time when the Great Depression was at its peak ...
    20 KB (3,031 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
  • Genghis Khan destroyed the city in 1219, although the great conqueror ... Tashkent was a center of espionage in the Great Game rivalry between Russia ...
    23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
  • George Kennan stated that the "purges made some sense" only ... as wellPatrick Salmon. Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940. (Cambridge ...
    51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
  • or "The Great Assassin" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract ... did not succeed. In many respects, the great powers were simply jealous ...
    27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
  • Titoism by Moscow, which encouraged purges against suspected "Titoites ... River Drina. These are times of hunger and great evil…. Serbs will fight ...
    26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
  • In the 1920s, there was a great debate between Bukharin, Tomsky and ... During this period, the first purges were initiated targeting many ...
    52 KB (7,308 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
  • Caligula was sent to live first with his great-grandmother, and Tiberius ... related to Julius Caesar. He was also a great-grandson of Mark Antony. ...
    28 KB (4,511 words) - 18:28, 25 November 2023
  • These purges had taken a toll on the Convention. Their overextension ... * Kropotkin, Peter. Trans. N. F. Dryhurst. The Great French Revolution ...
    26 KB (3,556 words) - 23:01, 28 October 2022
  • at Church Street, on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts ... graduated early—at age fifteen—from Great Barrington High School. He ...
    29 KB (4,549 words) - 21:59, 3 May 2023
  • Homer's great poems remained foundational works of art, not religious ... Odússeia) is the second of the two great epic poems ascribed to Homer ...
    27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
  • Lunacharsky turned out to be a brilliant orator and did a great deal ... during the Soviet era. During the Great Purges of 1936–1938, Lunacharsky ...
    35 KB (4,665 words) - 20:09, 31 August 2023
  • such as McCarthy's anti-communist purges and in wars such as thumb|right|Soviet Propaganda Poster during the Great Patriotic War. The text ...
    32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
  • disappeared in 1935 during the Great Purges. ===Split with Lenin (1903 ... Almost all of them perished in the Great Purges just a few years later. ...
    93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
  • Arbitrary imprisonment became common and purges were undertaken, both within ... Security Police (ÁVH) began a series of purges in which dissidents were ...
    73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
  • Kennan closely followed Stalin's Great Purges, which would profoundly ... Kennan's historical writings, and his memoirs, lament in great ...
    39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
  • the revolutionaries. This film garnered a great deal of criticism within ... 1932, who in early 1938, during the Great Purges was denounced, arrested ...
    36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
  • Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the First ... by Glushko's arrest during Stalinist purges in 1938. Similar work was ...
    39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
  • stable, developed countries (such as Great Britain, France, Spain, and ... (KGB) with sweeping powers and the Great Purges. Under Stalin the Soviet ...
    45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
  • that of the United States, called "great Satan" by the Iranians ... were not that far-fetched. Severe officer purges (including several executions ...
    36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
  • disturbed by Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, which began about 1936. He was also fearful for his own life, having noted the murder in Switzerland ...
    35 KB (5,145 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2023
  • Tsarist expansions in the so-called "Great Game" begun in the nineteenth ... the PDPA, conflicts resulted in exiles, purges, and executions. ...
    40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
  • The end of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age were marked by great ... Following the Great Northern War, the Swedish Empire lost Estonia ...
    40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
  • then caught up in Stalin's political purges. In any case, Theremin did ... белый Зал |publisher=Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic ...
    52 KB (7,562 words) - 23:57, 12 March 2023
  • the "formal role for a [male] 'great leader' as a cultural ... he began to encourage it following the Great Purges.Anita Pisch, The Personality ...
    57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
  • with the customary names of the other two great protest actions that occurred ... and Law marched to the eastern gate of the Great Hall of the People, which ...
    57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
  • grants this, and promises both riches and great power as well. As a demonstration ... with raw materials and craftsmen to build a great Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem ...
    60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
  • fate of many other Roman nobles during the purges of Tiberius' and Caligula ... proved to be an able administrator and a great builder of public works. ...
    58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
  • The Russian Federation emerged as a great power in the early twenty ... of industry were liquidated in the Great Purges. Purges in other Soviet ...
    137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
  • of rubble—mainly by hand—and rebuilt with great speed, one of the successes of the Three-Year Plan. The constitution of 1952 guaranteed universal ...
    65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
  • Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, defeated the Illyrians and ... In the 1054 Great Schism, the people of Duklja sided with the Catholic ...
    62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
  • Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August ... the nation's indivisibility and the great principles of freedom of ...
    73 KB (10,932 words) - 21:23, 26 December 2022
  • Reich, or literally translated "Great German Realm" often ... maltreatment in what the Russians call the Great Patriotic War. The Nazis ...
    65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
  • The Netherlands, present-day Germany, and Great Britain etc.); ... known as "la Grande Peur" (the Great Fear). In addition, plotting ...
    68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
  • was able to strengthen the Rhine border. A great invasion by Germanic tribes ... I prepared for war, but on December 20 the great powers imposed an armistice ...
    76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
  • In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to ... world history. Supporters regard him as a great leader and credit him with ...
    95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
  • of the Bulgars (often referred to as Old Great Bulgaria) who had their capital ... language was Old Slavonic, including a great deal of vernacular Ukrainian ...
    72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
  • The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ... #039;s entry into modern history as a European great power. ...
    163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)