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2 days ago · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
- The Russian Revolution
Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR: Sometime in the...
- Lenin and The Bolsheviks
In March 1918 the Bolshevik Party was renamed the Russian...
- Industrialization, 1929–34
Soviet Union - Industrialization, 1929–34: On the industrial...
- The Brezhnev Era
Soviet Union - The Brezhnev era: The new collective...
- Economic Policy
Soviet Union - Command Economy, Five-Year Plans,...
- The Communist International
Soviet Union - Communism, Revolution, USSR: Lenin and his...
- Kaliningrad
History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the...
- Baffin Island
Baffin Island, island lying between Greenland and the...
- The Russian Revolution
4 days ago · Leftist movements of various sorts had been common in European politics long before the revolution of Oct. 25, 1917 (which became Nov. 7 in the reformed Russian calendar), but Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks were different. They were not merely fanatical in their convictions but flexible in their tactics—and fortunate in their opponents.
5 days ago · The Russian Civil War stands today as one of the defining moments of the 20th century. While the Russian Revolution would overthrow nearly 400 years of Romanov rule and destroy the monarchy, the civil war cemented communist rule in Russia for the remainder of the century. The totality of the political and cultural fallout that stemmed from the ...
3 days ago · Date accessed: 16 April, 2024. For almost half a century, the classic description and analysis of Communist treatment of the nationalities question over the early years of the Bolshevik regime has been Richard Pipes magisterial The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917- 1923, published by Harvard University Press in 1954.
3 days ago · Bolshevik ideology can be understood, in part, as Marxist theory as Lenin applied it to Russia's social, economic, and political. the climate at the turn of the twentieth century. Revolution Upon revolution, the power needed to be handed from the Provisional Government to the Soviets. Internationalism At least initially, Bolshevik leaders ...
1 day ago · The Russian forces were known to be distracted by the ongoing Russian Revolution and the growing support for the Bolshevik faction, but Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government had remained in the war; Russia only withdrew after the final stage of the revolution on 7 November 1917.
