Each revolution demonstrates full assortment of mutually exclusive events, phenomena and tendencies, on the base of which all of the conceivable human virtues and vices are able to flourish...more..Soviet Russia Revolutions of 1917 Civil War Russia in NEP Industrialization. USSR in 30s USSR in Se...
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks banned Christmas celebrations. Many Christmas traditions, such as decorating a fir tree and giving presents, turned into New Year's traditions. Christmas became an official holiday and a non-labor day in Russia in 1991. It began regaining popu...
The holiday replaced the Day of Accord and Reconciliation, established by former President Boris Yeltsin following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was itself a replacement for Revolution Day. Revolution Day celebrated the 1917 October Revolution. It took place on November 7th, when tanks, ...
~ From a German: “The indestructible union of the free republics, the Great Rus’ has united forever. Long live created by the will of the peoples, the great and mighty Soviet Union!…” (Lada: he recites the Soviet anthem). Congratulations, brothers! I was very happy when I saw the...
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Before the October Revolution the city still had the rectangular grid of streets established by a city plan of 1854. Most of the buildings, whose architecture was eclectic, had been built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (for example, the Olympus Theater [now the philharmonic society...
Revolution, all in all, here the Lithuanian culture was not destroyed because the forefathers of Chernaya Padina Lithuanians fought against Czarist Russia rather than Soviet Russia. During the Soviet times, they were thus able to say that they are descendants of "revolutionaries" (akin to ...
The payments are due this week to prevent Russia’s first default on foreign debt since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The ministry added the payment had been made to a “foreign correspondent bank” on Monday, but it was unclear whether the bondholders will receive the money. The ministry an...
In Russia, Women's Day is a significant and popular holiday. Its source in the events of 1917 that were part of the Russian revolution meant it was a holiday that was promoted by the Soviet regime. The day first became a national holiday in 1965. ...
of Vogue and Playboy also provided glimpses of the budding sexual revolution in the West. They contributed to the change of attitude, which started with the young elite in Moscow and Leningrad who were increasingly less interested in the mores of their parents. For all the USSR‘s dictatoria...