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1 day 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 Russian Revolution
Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR: Sometime in the...
- Lenin and The Bolsheviks
After the abortive Bolshevik July rising the chairmanship of...
- 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
3 days ago · One hundred years ago today—November 7, 1917—what began as a celebration of International Women’s Day six months earlier culminated in the radical left government, led by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party, taking complete power over the vast Russian Empire, nearly one-sixth of all the earth’s land, controlled for three centuries by ...
3 days ago · Date accessed: 19 May, 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.
6 days ago · Lucy Worsley concludes her history of the Romanov dynasty, investigating how the family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final century. She shows how the years 1825-1918 were bloody and traumatic, a period when four tsars tried - and failed - to deal with the growing pressure for constitutional reform and revolution.
2 days ago · The Bolshevik program was summed up in one slogan, “Bread, Peace, and Land”. On June 18th, A Russian offensive resulted in 400,000 casualties, massive desertions, and a collapse of the army’s morale. In July the soldiers and sailors mutinied who were joined in the street by workers with Bolshevik support.
2 days ago · Before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917; thousands joined after the Revolution.
13 hours ago · Topographic map of the Russian Empire in 1912 Map of the Russian Empire in 1745. By the end of the 19th century the area of the empire was about 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi), or almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass; its only rival in size at the time was the British Empire. The majority of the population lived in European ...
