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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.
Under the 1992 Lisbon Protocol, Russia also agreed to receive all nuclear weapons remaining in the territory of other former Soviet republics. Since then, the Russian Federation has assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations, and is widely viewed as the USSR's successor state. [110]
The United Opposition (Russian: Объединённая оппозиция, romanized: Ob"yedinennaya oppozitsiya, sometimes translated Joint Opposition) was a group formed in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in early 1926, when the Left Opposition led by Leon Trotsky, merged with the New Opposition led by Grigory Zinoviev and his close ally Lev Kamenev, in order to strengthen ...
Twenty-three years since the day that changed everything. Since that impossibly blue sky on a crisp autumn morning. Since the first plane. Then the second plane.
1927 in Russia (3 C) S. 1927 in Soviet sport (1 P) T. 1927 in the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1 C) U. 1927 in Ukraine (1 C, 2 P)