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McNeill, William H. America, Britain, & Russia: their co-operation and conflict, 1941–1946 (1953) Overy, Richard. Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945 (1998) excerpt and text search; Reynolds, David, and Vladimir Pechatnov, eds. The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (2019)
During the late 1920s and early 1930s the Stalin wing of the Communist Party consolidated its authority and set about transforming the Soviet Union on both the economic and cultural fronts. The economy moved from the market-based New Economic Policy (NEP) to a system of central planning. The new leadership declared a "cultural revolution" in ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
Lenin's position was that after the revolution all nationalities would be free to choose, either to become part of Soviet Russia or become independent. [40] Left-wing Bolsheviks, most notably Georgy Pyatakov , derided nationalism as a false consciousness that was much less important than class conflict , and would disappear with the victory of ...
[46] [47] Social upheaval continued in the mid-1930s. Despite the turmoil of the mid-to-late 1930s, the country developed a robust industrial economy in the years preceding World War II. Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria with Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, on his lap. As head of the NKVD, Beria was responsible for many political repressions in the ...
Russian State: 1918–1920 ... This is a timeline of Russian history, ... 1906 Russian legislative election: The first free elections to the Duma gave majorities to ...
31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1997) [8] 29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer; 10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter; 21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete [9] 7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat (d. 2013) 10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano (d. 2023) [10]
1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... 1920s in Russia (18 C, 5 P) Russian Civil War ... History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1917–1927)