Although Cracraft later writes that "Imperial Russian history--the period of the Russian Empire--may be said to have begun formally on October 22, 1721," when Peter was given the title of Emperor (Cracraft 81), it is clear that events of the previous three decades were crucial to the ...
The disastrous performance of the Russian armed forces in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was a major blow to the Tsarist regime and increased the potential for unrest. In January 1905, an incident known as "Bloody Sunday" occurred when Father Gapon led an enormous crowd to the Winter ...
Keywords: Officer (armed forces); Defence minister; Military justice; Russo-Japanese War; Russian Armed Forces; Russian Empire; Revolution of 1905; Union of the Russian People; Russian Revolution; Russian Corps; Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire); Infantry; Imperial Russian Army; Nicholas II of Ru...
or war production plants, they were dropped to kill the largest number of people possible. When we tried the Nazis atNurembergthe targeted killing of civilians by their armed forces and the SS was labeled aCrime Against Humanity,yet we did, not just in the atomic ...
reach the Chinese port of Yantai, and the crew and boat interned. After the war the heroic cutter from Retvizan served in Vladivostok until 1922, sinking when taking part in the evacuation of “white Russian” forces. The crews that were taken prisoners after the capitulation comprised Commander...
“I mean…the USSF (US Space Force) and the Imperatorskiy Flot (Russian Imperial Navy) both used automated skip drones, but that was a security measure since subspace coms were new and no one was sure how secure they were. The last time anyone used a courier or a drone was the Unity...
homes during the same period. Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided at the dissolution of the Soviet Union and became a critic of President Putin, supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Gorbachev’s contradictory position vis-à-vis Crimea speaks of the deep Russian feeling of imperial ...
Avram recalled how in January 1944 prisoners saw Russian airplanes flying over the camp: “People who had been in the [armed] forces knew that they were Russian, so we knew that the Russians were not far away. But that’s when the Germans started us on the Death march.” ...
In Columbia, the FARC has established a robust State Shell that reaped a stunning toll on the local population since its inception in the 1920s when it rode the revolutionary wave stirred-up by the Russian Revolution into existence. Today its protection-money fueled income is estimated at $500...
Similarly, he first pretended to give up dissolving NATO if it would agree to add an anti-terrorist function to its anti-Russian function. He is now beginning to show NATO that it does not enjoy eternal privileges, as we saw with his refusal to deliver a special visa for an e...