Russia came to the Kazakh steppe in the early 18th century. The first to voluntarily fall under the rule of the Russian autocrats in the 1730s were the Kazakh clans of the so-called Younger and Middle Zhuzes (associations), who sought protection from the warlike Dzungars. For control of ...
Near the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union led the formation of the Yalta System, which opened up historical opportunities for the establishment of a "new type of major power relations" between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war. The Yalta ...
the daughter is now married with two children – the show got revised, polished, reworked and extended, and we are now at the point where we are looking for an enterprising producer to stage the new version at a bigger venue, probably next year. ...
Being lost in translation himself, Turgenev did a lot to popularize Russian literature in the West. He stayed for long periods of time in Europe, mostly in Germany, France and Italy. And there, while meeting literary circles, he talked about Russian literature and made sure that Dickens, Hugo...
to a close. In the end, the struggling Soviet economy led to the end of the Cold War. Weakened, the Soviets lost control of much of Eastern Europe by 1990. The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 amounted to the end of the Cold ...
the Sun (solar calendar), or of the Moon (lunar calendar), or both (lunisolar calendar) so that the length of the year corresponds approximately to either thetropical (solar) yearor thelunar year. Their complexity results primarily from the incommensurability of the natural periods ofday,...
Knowing all this, why did the Nurse Practitioner/PCP call the VA Police due to a disorderly patient? Why, knowing the patient has communicated over the last 6-8 weeks with notes and referrals from local providers, did the PCP not come having already taken action? Why were the simplest ques...
So, how was all of this accomplished? And how did they do it so fast? And just how successful was all of this in reality? To begin with, the very top ranking members of the Nazi Party, and nazi-adjacent organisations – 199 defendants in total – were tried at the famous Nuremberg ...
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The rebel warship left the port of Riga and started its journey to Leningrad, from where Sablin planned to launch a major revolution that would shake the whole enormous country. Why did he do it? A third-generation Navy officer, Valery Sablin had been a diligent student at the Leningrad Hig...