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  1. 18 hours ago · After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Georgia briefly emerged as an independent republic under German protectorate, but was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1922, becoming one of its constituent republics. In the 1980s, an independence movement grew quickly, leading to Georgia's secession from the Soviet Union in April 1991.

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  2. 4 days ago · Tsar Nicholas II, who ruled from 1894 until his forced abdication in 1917, was an ineffectual and indecisive leader who resisted calls for reform. Russia‘s political order was shaken by the humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the ensuing Revolution of 1905. Nicholas was forced to make political concessions, most ...

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  4. 18 hours ago · Malenkov [e] →. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Dzhugashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952, and ...

  5. 1 day ago · The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia or simply Russia, [e] [f] was a vast realm that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

  6. 2 days ago · Orlando Figes, A People’s tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London, 1996. Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets: the Russian People and their Revolution 1917-1921, London 1996. W.H.Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, (2 vols.), New York, 1965. The first edition was published in 1935.

  7. 4 days ago · Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Marxist theorist, the founder and for many years the leading exponent of the Marxist movement in Russia. A Menshevik, he opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917 and died in exile.

  8. 5 days ago · Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780719048371; 232pp. This is the third book on Russian women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century collectively authored by Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar of Southampton University. The two earlier volumes are respectively, Women and Work in Russia 1880-1930; A Study in ...

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