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Russian history dates back to 862AD. By mid-1200, the Russian territory spanned current-day Poland to the Pacific coast. By the 20th century, Russia became one of the superpowers and is now a major contributor to world policies.
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No, the Mensheviks were led mostly by Jules Martov. Trotsky was part of the Menshevik faction and one of its best theoreticians,...
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Stalin was glad to be rid of Lenin so that he could now take over the Communist Party and the Soviet Union himself. Stalin had...
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The Army that he marched into Russia was destroyed and had less than 10% effectives when it returned to France.
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It certainly influenced the ability of Napoleon's Army to operate from a position as a cohesive unit having lost most of their...
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At first, Lenin wanted a society where the factories and land would be owned by a central government, i.e., socialism. Eventually...
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1. He had facial hair. 1. He was only partially Russian by blood. He was part Russian, Mongolian, Swedish and German. He was...
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The Russian Revolution Didnt Fail. If Anything It Sucseeded. The Tsar St Nicholas II Got Scared When He Found Out That He...
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Yes, Belarus was part of the initial four republics that entered into the Treaty of the Soviet Union that created the USSR. The...
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Russia has a rich technological history. In 1914, before World War 1, Russia was more industrialized than the United States. When...
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He failed to close with the Russian Army in a timely fashion which over extended his supply lines and brought him face to face...
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He disliked the British and Vlad vile.
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No, Lenin was a socialist who believed that the government should control all markets. He was a dedicated anti-capitalist and...
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Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky masterminded the October Revolution.
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The Empress Elizabeth, who was on the heavy side- even portraits on coins show her as a plump czarina. Elizabeth died on...
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Treaty of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
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There were and likely still are literally thousands of Michael Romanovs however I believe the question asks who was Grand Duke...
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The major enlightened despots were Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia and Joseph II of Austria.
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Lenin's personality is not as prominent as many other historical figures. (Such as Stalin for example). Lenin was a closed,...
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Prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution, they were called "Boyars".
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If the question writer means, what is the Russian equivalent of the English interrogative "what," the Cyrillic rendering is...
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The Palace of Livadia in the Crimea and around the gulf of Finland on their yacht
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Yes, V.I Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870.Lenin changed his name for the same reason many other revolutionaries did...
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Yes. Stalingrad was a City.
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Julius Martov was a Menshevik rather than a Bolshevik. The major difference between the two factions was that Martov believed the...
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Well I'm not really sure:(
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The soon to be tsar was called a tsarsevitch.
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born in 1870 (Originally born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
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Lenin formed the Bolshevik Party in 1903.
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He died July 17, 1918. See attached link for more info:
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Russia in Russian is Rossija (=Russia)
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The Soviet Union was a communist government in WW2
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Josef Stalin intentionaly caused the starvation death in the Ukraine (the Holodomor)of up to 10 million people in 1932-3 by...
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Building St .Petersburg, he did this so that Russia could have a port close to the western world. The capital at Moscow was...
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Russia is so large and is inhabited by so many culturally and ethnically diverse people that there is no single answer to your...
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Bolsheviks led by Lenin 100% positive
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Lenin launched the New Economic Policy, which re instituted aspects of capitalism in agriculture and small businesses.
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They believed their country was a paradise and knew that if people were emigrating it would make them look bad. But the excuse...
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No, Vladimir Lenin was the Soviet state's first Marxist leader.
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Ruusians got there by migrating eveywhere and they were really dumb because a lot of ppl got killed
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Stalin took many risks through-out his career, from drawing reserves to bail Stalingrad out to daring to take control of the...
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Kutzenesov or a similar name was a Russian aircraft engine maker- akin to, roughly Curtiss-Wright or Pratt and Whitney, but of...
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Trotsky was not exiled to any particular country. He was first exiled to Alma Atta in Siberia then ordered to leave the country,...
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Almost certainly Vladimir Lenin. Mikhail Kudrin, as part of a detail of men under the command of Yakov Yurovsky, is generally...
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The first Russian revolution came in 1905. It is plausible to say that it resulted from Russia's hard defeat in the...
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Obviously there were different units in the Armed forces- also the IKGB who were the Imperial Equivalent of the much later KGB....
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They are defiantly left wing because they believe in socialism, equality, have new ideas and are anti capitalist, these are all...
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The more well off peasant farmers were known as kulaks.
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Hard to say. If Anna Anderson was Anastasia Romanov, then she is buried under the name " Anna Anderson ".If Anna Anderson was not...
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Catherine The Great, also Mother Russia, the mother of Russian Cities, which she visited while accompanied with her protective...
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"Anastasia is about the lost princess of the tzar empire of russia. When the princess was little, the commoners started a civil...
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Assume she survived ( many say she did not) well it does seem logical she may have had ( possibly by diplomatic incentive)...
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Why did the Soviet Union simply go out of existence in 1991? Beacause communism fell.
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launching the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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No one led the February Revolution in Russia in 1917. It was a spontaneous and unorganized general protest demonstration city...
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her main goals in life were to stay ruling her kingdom and to be the best their is
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The Kremlin is basically the office of the president. It also holds important meeting's!Believe me i live in Russia for 11 years!!
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The constituent nations of the USSR that became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991...
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None of them. Some years later a woman claimed to be Anastasia Romanov and that she had survived the execution of the Romanov...
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There was never a "take over." Russia was at war with Japan in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War (in which Japan consistently...
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Tsar Nicholas II was responsible for touching off the first part of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution. Russian...
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Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov May 18 1868- July 17 1918 ( aged 50 ) Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR Reign: October 20 ( O.S. 1...
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Lenin had been exiled from Russia for fomenting unrest with the Czar. He was living in Switzerland during most of the war. The...
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Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the radical faction of the Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party known as the Bolshevik...
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It was less to obtain Alaska then to remove all Russian claims in North America which was important with the western migration...
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The three monarchs were commonly known as "Enlightened Despots." This was because they reigned during the Age of the...
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Rossiyskaya Federatsiya is the name of the Russian government. It tends to be translated into English as 'Russian Federation'....
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No, Tsar Peter the Great is credited with westernizing Russia.
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For hundreds of years russia had been ruled by the czars, monarchs, but as the czars slowly dragged russia back to the dark ages,...
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tsar,a lot of events turned the people against the tsar, but the significant turning point was bolldy Sunday and lenin coming...
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William July, II (now Dr. William July) was one of the leading authors in an era of groundbreaking author-entrepreneurs during...
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After the October Revolution and during the Russian Civil War, Trotsky was the Commissar of War. He organized the Red Army for...
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Yes, and that was a major part of Leninism. Whereas Marx anticipated a revolution of a united force of factory workers, Lenin...
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Since his remains were only found in 2007 and not officially identified until 2008, the burial procedure is still to be finalised.
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"Russia" was never divided into separate republics to become the Soviet Union. In 1922, Russia joined with Ukraine, Belorussia...
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Most countries went of the us so they would keep people from going to the us when it first started. Also because they wanted a...
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His over extended supply lines, Russia's scorched earth tactics and the winter weather.
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Tsar Nicholas II, of the Romanov imperial line, was the catalyst for the Russian revolution.
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It was overthrown in the 1917 Russian Revolution (famously called the "February Revolution"). Over a year later in July 1918,...
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No, its a noun(place) A noun is a person, place, or thing
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The way was clear for the Communists ( reds) to take over Russia, which they did. the last vestiges of Red/White military action...
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This probably refers to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a rather humiliating treaty, to which Lenin had to agree in order to end...
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No he did not. Lenin was dedicated to turning Russia from a capitalist country into a socialist country. Communism would come...
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Crushing Roubles with his BEAR HANDS! NB: He had the hands of a bear
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They centralized the government They were fierce, but allowed Russian people to follow their own religion. Russia was isolated...
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Through blood they were distant cousins, but through marriage they were first cousins. Wilhelm was the first cousin of Nicholas'...
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In a word, no. Marx believed in a Proletarian revolution where the working class seized power for themselves. Although the...
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Peasants actually played very little in the way of a role with either revolution. The February Revolution was largely a matter of...
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Peter the Great died of bladder problems. An autopsy showed gangrene had set in.
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Lenin was head of state (his exact title being Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) between 8 November 1917 - 21...
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weapons taken from the dead and wounded
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Tatiana, along with her older sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, were busily involved as Nurses"s aids at various military and...
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