Search results for "List of Soviet leaders" - New World Encyclopedia
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- – January 12, 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- ) (January 20, 1948 - ) is a notable former Soviet dissident, human ... As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. He joined the U.S ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- conspiracy to eliminate the leadership of the Soviet Union. The plot ... The cult of personality that Stalin created was possible because there ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- 29, 1899 – December 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...19 KB (2,598 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- 21, 1978) was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin ... high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... refers to the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy. The nomenklatura ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... Although the three leaders arrived with differing objectives, the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- The Battle of Cheongsanri (Chingshanri in Chinese) was fought in October ... Although no dramatic change in the status of relations between the ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Apart from professional work in the field of logic, Zinovyev was renowned ... Once a dissident and an extreme critic of Communism (and successive ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city ... At the same time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the ... the next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
