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by the Bolsheviks and replaced by the Soviet during the October Revolution. ... and was elected vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. He simultaneously became ...

the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet established a Revolutionary ... Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet assigned to combat counter ...

a Menshevik. On March 1, 1917, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and ... ::Petrograd Soviet formed. March :1st – Order No.1 of the Petrograd Soviet ...

to protest against the way in which the Soviet system tied science with ... researcher. He graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute ...

inculcate the values of the newly emerging Soviet socialist system. Like a ... with the suppression of the old Petrograd Imperial Academy of Arts ...

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 ...

| order2 = Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet ... [[File:Grigory Zinoviev, Chairman of Petrograd Soviet among the Political ...

The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors ... and as a guardpost for the approaches to Petrograd, now Saint Petersburg 35 ...

– August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent ... headed by Adolph Joffe and the Petrograd Soviet, led by Trotsky, staged ...

twentieth-century Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Mayakovsky was considered ... WWI, and during 1915—1917 worked at the Petrograd Military Automobile School ...

1998) was regarded by many as the greatest Soviet ballerina of the twentieth ... Ulanova studied in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) under Agrippina ...

supported by the socialist-dominated Petrograd Soviet. According the will ... the October Revolution) through the Petrograd Soviet and the Military Revolutionary ...

Guchkov and made a proposal to the Petrograd Soviet to form a coalition ... both the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet. ...

same time, socialists also formed the Petrograd Soviet. In the Mariinsky Palace ... socialist parties re-established the Petrograd Soviet, first created during ...

) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations ... Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet) on the proposal of ...

– January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ... In 1915, Babel graduated and moved to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg ...

The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... Uritsky and the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. ...

Classic Series, 1990, ISBN 086091528X). Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin regarded ... bureaucratic government. Kautsky saw the Soviet state as a tyrannical political ...

and in the post-World War II world, the Soviet were a super-power in their ... managed to inflict a defeat on the 11th Soviet Army and capture the North ...

quot; organization operating outside of Soviet institutions and a haven ... In the summer of 1923, Bogdanov was arrested by the Soviet secret ...

Revolutionaries who dominated the Petrograd Soviet believed that Russia ... Kerensky panicked and turned to the Petrograd Soviet – including its Bolshevik ...

of the precursor organizations to the Petrograd Soviet. He joined the board ... army in July 1917, considered the Petrograd Soviet responsible for the ...

revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar ... the leadership struggle, representing the Soviet Union in the League of Nations ...

since age ten. Also a student at the Petrograd Conservatory of Music, he studied piano and composition as well. At 20 years of age, Balanchine ...

) was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir ... production. Between 1918 and 1920, Petrograd lost 70 percent of its ...

The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... was passed. The following day, the Soviet elected a Council of People ...

Philosophers' ship (in 1922) from the Soviet Union as a counter-revolutionary. ... philosophy teacher at the University of Petrograd or University of St. Petersburg ...

Rechka" (near Vladivostok), Soviet Union | occupation = poet ... other significant figures of Russian (and Soviet) culture among its alumni ...

and for the creation of an international soviet republic as a transition ... had 583,105 members, excluding its Soviet membership. William Henry ...

his legacy for their own purposes. During Soviet times, the official position ... put up in several location of the former Soviet Union associated with his ...

fellow journalist Louise Bryant, were in Petrograd, Russia when the October ... to learn that the American ambassador in Petrograd was inclined to believe ...

Latvia, and Saint Petersburg (then called Petrograd), and witnessed the Russian ... ideology, and the internal workings of the Soviet Union. In 1950, a Research ...

Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, for a brief period ... Party). He travelled a lot, including to Petrograd and to Moscow. He came ...

Revolution, and the first leader of the Soviet Russia. Lenin's legacy ... and the structural architect of the Soviet system is evidenced by the ...

he would come into conflict with the Soviet authorities, especially during ... because of worries of the enemy capturing Petrograd (the new name for Saint ...

by Hearst during and after her trips to Petrograd and Moscow, appeared in ... the dock and told her to prepare to go to Petrograd four days later to cover ...

half of the peninsula was supported by the Soviet Union, the southern half ... The Soviet Union and its allies challenged the United Nations resolution ...

– March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician ... charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state. After a show trial ...

9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet Union period. He had a complex ... allowed to enter the Saint Petersburg or Petrograd Conservatory, then headed ...

Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Soviet government, but soon resigned ... of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, and "for the rest ...

Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, Trotsky was elected ... Comrade Trotsky, the President of the Petrograd Soviet. It can be stated with ...

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

divorced. Maria Davydova later married the Soviet diplomat Nikolai Iordansky; ... (Freedom) and Petrogradskii Listok (The Petrograd Leaflet). While welcoming ...

to the October Revolution but remained in Petrograd (the renamed St. Petersburg ... in Germany and Estonia) began to appear in Soviet Russia. In December Fimiamy ...

his comrades from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd in April 1917. Furthermore ... 10, but the uncertain situation in Petrograd stalled the plan. After ...

revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted ... at the Genoa Conference, and was Soviet ambassador to London and ...

Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ... ===Bolshevism in the Soviet Union=== The Soviet Union made extensive ...

In 1899 the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute was founded on his initiative ... executive committee of the St. Petersburg Soviet were arrested. The Minister ...

and history at the University of Petrograd, where she discovered Edmond Rostand, Friedrich Schiller and Fyodor Dostoevsky. She also was captivated ...

Leningrad and Petrograd redirect here. {{Infobox Settlement ... formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991; ...

power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 and his ... Comrade Trotsky, the President of the Petrograd Soviet. It can be stated with ...

Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) ... superpower. The country is considered the Soviet Union's successor state ...

great hardship for Balmont who, living in Petrograd (with Elena Tsvetkovskaya ... poetry and abused the trust of the Soviet government." Condemning ...

The theremin was the product of Soviet government-sponsored research ... founded Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd, and the next day he invited ...

theory, composition, and advanced piano at the Petrograd Conservatory, graduating in 1923. During this time, he worked with the corps de ballet of the ...

Soviet historiography, as represented by Boris Rybakov and Lev Gumilev ... of Slavonic Philology, II, 1 (Petrograd, 1915), XXVIII, cited in ...

shared power with the socialists of the Petrograd Soviet. This division of power led to confusion and chaos both on the front and at home, and the army ...