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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 ...

| order2 =First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union | term_start2 =1955 ... Stalin. He was made First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union by the victorious ...

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 ...

) (January 27, 1891 – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist ... Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began ...

; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...

(January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet ... However, the USSR may have over-reached itself during his watch. While ...

) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... As a trusted lieutenant, Stalin used Kaganovich to implement some ...

This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... ==De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era== After Stalin died in March ...

The Gang of Four ( s=四人帮|t=四人幫|p=Sì rén bāng ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's ...

| order2 = First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union ... was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ...

was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India ... what he saw as too close a relationship with the Soviet Union by improving ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...

(March 9 [O. S. February 25] 1890 – November 8, 1986) was a Soviet ... During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet leadership, after ...

East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ...

January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...

KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ...

military leader who was instrumental in the communist victory in the Chinese ... After the establishment of the People's Republic in October 1949 ...

The Great Purge ( Большая чистка , tr: Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political ...

– December 26, 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the ... His brother-in-law was Alexander Bogdanov, a close associate of Vladimir ...

May 15, 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving ... in Jeparit, Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western ...

(Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...

– March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician ... Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917 ...

The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated ... Together with the People First Party ( 親民黨) and Chinese New ...

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known simply as ... The Cultural Revolution was initiated by Party Chairman Mao Zedong ...

known under various other names, including the stage name Lan Ping (Chinese: ... On November 22, 1966, Jiang Qing was named first vice-chairwoman of ...

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...

former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... Despite this acceptance, post-Soviet Russia lacked the military and ...

was a North Korean politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of North ... In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership ...

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום ... ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim ...

The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... Pol Pot died April 15, 1998, having never been put on trial. The atrocities ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...

entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe ... The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...

politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in ...

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon ... of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ...

(July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...

was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...

revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the ... Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue ...