One of the earliest efforts to redefine the character of the new Soviet man was the state crackdown on religion. On January 23rd 1918, only a few months after the revolution, the ‘Decree on Separation of Church and State’ was signed into practice, officially severing the power and authority...
On December 1, 1934, Sergei Kirov, head of the city's party branch and an associate of Stalin, was assassinated in Leningrad. It is believed that his murder was the reason for the start of Stalin's so-called 'Great Purge' or, simply, mass repression in the USSR. In the photo below ...
Was the Russian Empire capitalist? The economy of the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century was a complicated hybrid of traditional peasant agriculture and modern industry. But small islands of modern industrial capitalism, brought into being by state policy, coexisted with the primitive rural...
In 1723, Peter the Great banned kholops – the remaining ones were made serfs and started paying taxes like everybody else. So, if we’re talking about ‘proper’ ancient-type slavery, we may say that in Russia, it was banned in 1723. Serfdom was a different thing. 2. Serfdom was a...
Then Fauci said all children must be vaccinated or denied a school education [109] and all unvaccinated people must be banned from getting on an airplane. [110] At the same time, a Virginia congressman introduced the Safety Travel Act that would require travelers getting o...