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10 April – Alexey Ekimyan, Armenian-Russian composer; 20 April – Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, Olympic wrestler; 15 May – Leila Mardanshina, oil and gas operator (died 2017) 16 May – Boris Tokarev, Olympic athlete; 28 May – Aleksandr Moiseyev, Olympic basketball player; 3 June – Evgeny Chuprun, painter
The frontiers between Poland, which had established an unstable independent government following World War I, and the former Tsarist empire, were rendered chaotic by the repercussions of the Russian revolutions, the civil war and the winding down of World War I. Poland's Józef Piłsudski envisioned a new federation (Międzymorze), forming a ...
Russia’s Road From Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations 1917–1941. (1969). Online free to borrow; Haslam, Jonathan. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe 1933–1939 (1984). Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (1961). Online free to borrow; Laqueur, Walter.
This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia.
They were convinced that the purpose of the Whites' military actions was not a war against some broad masses or social classes, but a war with a small party that had seized power in Russia and used the socio-economic and political situation, as well as market conditions, in their own interests to achieve the goal, as well as manipulating the ...
1927 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov [a] (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. [2] He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge.
The Russian peasantry lived through two wars against the Russian state, the product of revolutions that ended with state victory: 1905-1907 and 1917-1922. [3] At the beginning of 1918 the Bolshevik Party only controlled a few cities, "unique Bolshevik islets in the middle of a peasant ocean" unwilling to hand over the fruits of their labor and ...