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Left office Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917–1938) 1: Lev Kamenev (1883–1936) 9 November 1917 21 November 1917 Communist Party: 2: Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919) 21 November 1917 16 March 1919 Communist Party — Mikhail Vladimirsky (1874–1951) Acting: 16 March 1919 30 March 1919 ...
Vladimir Putin (1952–) 1: 16 August 1999 7 May 2000 Independent: 34 Mikhail Kasyanov (1957–) • 17 May 2000 24 February 2004 Independent: Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) [note 6] 35 Mikhail Fradkov (1950–) 1: 5 March 2004 7 May 2004 Independent: 2: 12 May 2004 12 September 2007 36: Viktor Zubkov (1941–) • 14 September 2007 7 May 2008 ...
As leader of the Politburo, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by 1938 after the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political murder, repression and persecution. [16] On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, [17] but by December the Soviet Army managed to stop the attack just shy of Moscow.
Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesNHL star Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence after his former coach accused him of beating up an 18-year-old girl in a Russian bar in 2011.On Monday, Andrei ...
Before that time, the 1918 Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic functioned as the constitution of the USSR. According to the 1918 Constitution, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (CEC), whose chairman was head of state, had the power to determine what matters of income and taxation would go to the state ...
This New Year’s Eve, Vladimir Putin marks a quarter-century as Russia’s first man. While his grip on power appears more secure than ever, fresh uncertainty lies around the corner.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky [d] (4 May [O.S. 22 April] 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 ().
Alexander Lukashenko, left, and Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Sochi, Russia (Pavel Bednyakov / Sputnik via AP file ) Lukashenko’s part in the Putin-Prigozhin deal was all about “self ...