1 In this context, as the Russian Orthodox Church was accused during the collapse of the Soviet Union of having compromised its principles with the Soviet regime, the church has progressively become the principal official actor in the process of memorialization. Some of the political ideas that ...
Rus′sian Or′thodox Church′ n. the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917. Also calledRus′sian Church′. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright...
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Andrews, in The Land and People of the Soviet Union (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1991), page 183. "It is very likely that Judaized Khazar elements, especially those that had acculturated to the cities, contributed to the subsequently Slavic-speaking Jewish communities of Kievan Rus'. ...
Molotov Cocktail also petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb (Named after Vyacheslav Molotov 1890-1986, Soviet politician born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin; the term was coined by the Finns in 1940 during their Winter War with the Soviet Union. While dropping bombs on Helsinki, Soviet ...
“Why hide it? I have a positive attitude toward them, because they are former brothers [within the Soviet Union]. We have the same troubles as they do. They get paid under the table, and so do we. And sometimes they are not paid at all,” said Mikhail, a 55-year-old freight han...
RussianOrthodox monks.——Cornell Capa SOVIET UNION. Russia. Kolkhoz near Moscow.1954.——Henri Cartier-Bresson RUSSIA. Republic of Dagestan. Makhatshkala.October 2000. Backstage during a multi-ethnic music performance.——Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. Moscow. 1998. Church of Assumption.A boy taking ...
At the commencement of the Soviet Union, there was a grave of food shortages; to improve the agricultural productions; in 1921 Lenin instated the New Economic Plan (NEP). The New Economic Plan gave the opportunity for the farmers or peasants to produce their crops for profit; in the years...
In the emigre community, he was believed to be a Soviet agent. Gorky and Lunacharsky formulated "God-building," a Marxist surrogate religion (to which Lenin vehemently objected), during the Revolution of 1905, for they recognized the power of religion and myth to inspire people to sacrifice...
I also knew that we would never attack anyone. The Soviet Union had a militarist bent, and a sense of the coming war’s inevitability filtered into my childish mind. But there was only one possible scenario: the enemy would come to us, maybe even occupy our country, but then we would ...