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1 day ago · Silesia tension between the Poles and Germans. In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII). It was relatively short, yet featured many social, political ...
5 days ago · Mikhail Markovich Borodin was the chief Comintern agent in China in the 1920s, who built the loosely structured Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) of Sun Yat-sen into a highly centralized Leninist-style organization. Borodin joined the Bolshevik party in Russia in 1903. In 1906 he was arrested and
5 days ago · The French Revolution was sparked by the financial crisis and the discontent of the people towards the monarchy and the privileged classes. The Revolution was marked by several key events, including the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793, and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. 8.
3 days ago · This book is an overview of Russian conservative ideology from roughly 1500 to the First World War. Richard Pipes, the now Emeritus Baird Professor of History at Harvard, has written or edited more than twenty books on Russian history, and his latest work is in many ways a summary of his conclusions about why Russia developed differently from the countries of Western Europe.
5 days ago · The cataclysmic effects of the First World War meant that most of Europe faced similar dilemmas over the immediate post-war years. While the jurisdictional fate of much of the ex-tsarist empire was taxing the Bolshevik leadership, the political disposition of the remainder of eastern and central Europe was being determined by the Allied ...
2 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
4 days ago · Cuman–Kipchak Confederation. Mixed results, mostly Kievan Rus' victories. 1065–1069 [16] Rebellion of Vseslav of Polotsk [16] Sieges of Pskov and Novgorod (1065–1067) [16] Battle on the Nemiga River (1067) [16] Kiev uprising of 1068 [16] Polish intervention, restoration of Iziaslav I of Kiev (1069) [16] Principality of Kiev.
