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The Russian Revolution (1991) online . Pipes, Richard. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (1996), abridged version online ; Remington, Thomas. Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia. (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1984). Service, Robert. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. 2nd ed. Harvard UP, 1999. online ; Service, Robert, Lenin: A ...
Some fled their home countries due to their experiences of racism, hoping that Soviet Russia would provide a better environment for racial equality than their homelands. [2] Some radical western women also came to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, curious about a country that claimed to have achieved gender equality. [3]
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. See also the list of leaders of Russia.
[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 ...
Most of the top communist leaders in the 1920s and 1930s had been propagandists or editors before 1917, and were keenly aware of the importance of propaganda. As soon as they gained power in 1917 they seized the monopoly of all communication media, and greatly expanded their propaganda apparatus in terms of newspapers, magazines and pamphlets.
It was only at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s that the Soviet Union's propaganda won the mythological option, namely the denial of the existence of Jesus. [161] A "Living Church" movement despised Russian Orthodoxy's hierarchy and preached that socialism was the modern form of Christianity; Trotsky urged their encouragement to split Orthodoxy ...
A house-commune in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A house-commune (Russian: дом-коммуна) was an architectural and social movement in early Soviet Union of 1920–1930s. . The purpose of the house-communes was to get rid of "the yoke of the household econom
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 ...