(seeMILITARY RANKS). Until 1722, however, the traditional Russian ranks—including the high court ranks of boyar,okol’nichii, dumny dvorianin(“duma noble”), anddumnyi d’iak(“duma clerk”)—persisted at the court of the tsar and in the civil institutions of the state. The Table of...
The fourth session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopts the first Soviet Civil Code of the RSFSR. November 5 to December 5. The Fourth Congress of the Comintern is held. Lenin addresses the Congress. November 15. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee issues a decree on ...
Code puzzleProvides a code puzzle activity quoted from an essay in New England Courant written in 1722 by a young man who believed in civil liberties pen named `Silence Dogood.'Gingold, Pam DeyellCobblestone
They depicted the assimilation of a new world view by the civically active members of the masses of workers and peasants and the democratic intelligentsia, as well as their participation in the revolutionary movement, in the civil struggle, and in the construction and defense of a new society. ...
16 to Dec. 26, 1945, recognized the need for the peaceful unification of China and for cessation of the civil war. An agreement “with respect to the desirability of the withdrawal of Soviet and American armed forces from China as quickly as possible” was reached. This diplomatic action on...
After the Jesuits were driven from Brazil, their schools were closed and the authorities began to open civil schools. A law organizing state primary schools was promulgated in 1827. The organization and administration of elementary education is under municipal jurisdiction; secondary and higher ...
Laws and statutes facilitating bourgeois development were promulgated: the judicial reform of 1927–28, the Civil Code of 1929, the revocation of the capitulations in 1928, the law of 1930 against forcible land seizure, the law of 1934 on the sale of state lands, the introduction of ...
He concentrated his attention on civil political history, providing much material on the history of popular movements. Pombo’s successors in contemporary historiography (A. de Almeida, J. O. Rodrigues, and others) acknowledge the class struggle but regard it merely as one of the factors in the...
He concentrated his attention on civil political history, providing much material on the history of popular movements. Pombo’s successors in contemporary historiography (A. de Almeida, J. O. Rodrigues, and others) acknowledge the class struggle but regard it merely as one of the factors in the...
The Table of Ranks (1722) defined the bureaucratic hierarchy of ranks in the army, navy, and civil administration. Even the very lowest rank conferred the right of personal nobility, and the higher ranks bestowed the right of hereditary nobility. The acquisition of noble rank by the Table of...