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The Vietnamese famine of 1945 (Vietnamese: Nạn đói Ất Dậu – famine of the Ất Dậu Year or Nạn đói năm 45 – the 1945 famine) was a famine that occurred in northern Vietnam in French Indochina during World War II from October 1944 to late 1945, which at the time was under Japanese occupation from 1940 with Vichy France as an ally of Nazi Germany in Western Europe.
Dec 3, 2020 · Of the many factors leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union, a rapidly failing post World War II economy and weakened military, along with a series of forced social and political reforms like perestroika and glasnost, played major roles in the fall of the mighty Red Bear.
Nov 30, 2021 · Collapse. The Fall of the Soviet Union. by Vladislav M. Zubok. 576 Pages, 5.00 x 7.75 in, 30 b-w illus. + 2 maps.
Oct 1, 2021 · How It Happened. By Kristyna Foltynova October 1, 2021. On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a sovereign state. Its collapse was gradual and, some would say, even inevitable ...
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [a] was the highest organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between two congresses. According to party statutes, the committee directed all party and governmental activities. The Party Congress elected its members.
August 18, 1991 - December 31, 1991. Collapse of the Soviet Union - Aftermath, Coup, Repercussions: The coup failed for several reasons. Army and KGB officers declined to carry out orders to storm the White House. The plotters did not cope with Gorbachev's refusal to cooperate, and failed to arrest Yeltsin before he was able to rally support.
The ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet Union covers the years 1922 to 1991. After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took control. They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin.
