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Vor 4 Tagen · The history of the Soviet Union is full of paradoxes, and one of these is that the radical republicanism of the communist system should have replicated so intensely the monarchical features of the social order that they had so violently overthrown. Ultimately, there appeared to be no coherent rationale to abandon the dates associated with the various leaders of the USSR. The quasi-monarchical ...
Vor einem Tag · Social control was also ubiquitous, with communist party members in particular being called upon to keep a close watch and report anything suspicious in their surroundings. Activities potentially threatening the normalization regime itself were then in the crosshairs of the secret police. The secret police also focused on monitoring of the supporters of the reformist faction of 1968 to a large ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Sakharov was also involved in an event with political consequences in 1964, when the Soviet Academy of Sciences nominated for full membership Nikolai Nuzhdin, a follower of Trofim Lysenko (initiator of the Stalin-supported anti-genetics campaign Lysenkoism). Contrary to normal practice, Sakharov, a member of the academy, publicly spoke out against full membership for Nuzhdin and held him ...
Vor einem Tag · The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain -producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia. [9] [10] Major causes include: the forced collectivization of agriculture as a ...
Vor 3 Tagen · German–Soviet Union relations date to the aftermath of the First World War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between Russia and Germany; it was signed on March 3, 1918. [1] A few months later, the German ambassador to Moscow, Wilhelm von Mirbach, was shot dead by Russian Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in an ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Recent scholarship on civil society and activism in Poland has challenged one of the core assumptions of the early post-communist studies literature – namely that what was emerging across CEE were autonomous and horizontal social networks, and a separate pillar from the state and the economy.
Vor einem Tag · By The Associated Press. BANGKOK — A senior Vietnamese official with the country’s labor ministry was arrested for “deliberately disclosing state secrets,” police announced on Thursday, a ...
