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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 ...
The 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 2–19 December 1927 in Moscow. It was attended by 898 delegates with a casting vote and 771 with a consultative vote. [1] The congress ended an inner-party struggle, as Leon Trotsky, Gregorii Zinoviev and other opponents of Joseph Stalin were expelled from the ...
Russian Revolution of 1905: The first soviet was formed in the midst of a textile strike in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. 14 June: Russian Revolution of 1905: A mutiny occurred aboard the battleship Potemkin. 25 June: Russian Revolution of 1905: The Potemkin sailors defected to Romania. 5 September
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.
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]
US Speaker McCarthy: Russia must pull out of Ukraine. US says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December. 01:30, Joe Middleton. The White House said Monday it now estimates that just ...
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.