Search results for "Russians" - New World Encyclopedia
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- that the name comes from the period the Russians first encountered the people ... all of Central Asia. In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- * Milner-Gulland, Robin. The Russians. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0631218491 * [http://hudce7.harvard.edu/~ostrowski/pvl/ Online ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- moved from rural areas but also many ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who had been recruited to fill positions in industry and government. ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Stalin's time. The average lifespan of Russians has decreased by five years since the collapse of the communist system, and inadequate health care ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- The Horde exacted tribute from its subject peoples—Russians, Armenians, Georgians, and Crimean Greeks. The territories of Christian subjects ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 04:08, 24 May 2024
- died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. Being held in some crowded ... died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. A major epidemic occurred ...23 KB (3,359 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- exist, such as Poles (6.7 percent), Russians (6.3 percent), and Belarusians ... Lithuania in the Vilnius region. Russians are the second largest minority ...40 KB (5,567 words) - 16:38, 28 May 2024
- both of which were conquered by the Russians in the course of the sixteenth ... He said, "Without this river the Russians could not live." ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- of the symbolic nature of Katyń. Russians and Poles, tortured to death ... soil. However, in September that year Russians also raised the issue of ...47 KB (6,938 words) - 20:13, 4 June 2024
- War, 1656-1658, Riga withstood a siege by Russians. It remained the second ... Soviet republics into Riga, particularly Russians, changed the demographic ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Commonwealth, created in 1569. The Russians, led by Tsar Ivan the III ... jobs and bringing an influx of ethnic Russians into the republic. The borders ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Theresienstadt was liberated by the Russians. Baeck prevented his fellow inmates from killing their guards. His experience of the Holocaust ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- and over half of the Soviet population. Russians also dominated the Soviet ... of the Russian people in the 1990s. Russians on fixed incomes (the vast ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- draw at Eylau (February 7–8) forced the Russians to withdraw further north ... draw, but Napoleon eventually forced the Russians to back down, thus opening ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Poland were not negotiable—the Russians were to keep territory from the eastern portion of Poland and Poland was to compensate for that by ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- and outrage across Europe. It was the Russians, who saw themselves as friends and allies of the Slav population in the Balkans who were provoked ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- Tatars, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, and Russians, and arbitrarily drawn borders ... was used until the mid-1920s by the Russians to distinguish them from ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- Beginning with Peter I (the Great), the Russians occupied Moldavia ... The Russians granted autonomy in 1818 which remained until 1828. A ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- started waging a holy war against the Russians. Mansur hoped to establish ... Shamil remained successful while the Russians were occupied with the Crimean ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- all its men. At Tannenberg 92,000 Russians surrendered during the battle. When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20,000 Russians ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
