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1 day ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time.
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
1 day ago · While in the 1990s some Soviet-era city names commemorating communist leaders were changed (e.g., Leningrad reverting to Saint Petersburg and Kalinin, also named after Mikhail Kalinin, reverting to Tver), Kaliningrad remains named as it was, though the city is sometimes colloquially referred to as König or Kyonig (Russian: Кёниг).
- 223.03 km² (86.11 sq mi)
- 1 September 1255
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Russia
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1 day ago · Starting from 1954, some of the convictions were overturned. Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other generals convicted in the Trial of Red Army Generals were declared innocent ("rehabilitated") in 1957. The former Politburo members Yan Rudzutak and Stanislav Kosior and many lower-level victims were also declared innocent in the 1950s. Nikolai Bukharin ...
- 1936–1938
- 700,000 to 1.2 million, (higher estimates overlap with at least 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system)
Apr 27, 2024 · The Pomgol Central Commission (Центральная комиссия помощи голодающим при ВЦИК) established by the Soviet government ( VTsIK) existed during July 1921 — October 1922. It was headed by Mikhail Kalinin, chairman of VTsIK. It coordinated all related to the famine relief.
1 day ago · His growing influence was reflected in naming of locations after him; in June 1924 the Ukrainian mining town of Yuzovka became Stalino, and in April 1925, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad on the order of Mikhail Kalinin and Avel Enukidze. In 1926, Stalin published On Questions of Leninism.
would guess most bolshevik leaders that you see lead the Russian Socialist Republic / Soviet Union would be the HoG, not HoS (considering people like Stalin who were head of the Central Committee of the communist party and held most real power were HoG, whilst Mikhail Kalinin was head of the Central executive committee and therefore HoS, but ...
May 9, 2024 · Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and prose writer whose meticulously crafted works provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political upheaval within the Soviet Union from the postwar era to the fall of communism. She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.
