the Bolsheviks had promised to safeguard the elections for the Constituent Assembly, which the Provisional Government had set for November. After the coup the election went forward. Forty-four million Russians voted, and the elected delegates showed up ...
The world has tolerated the status quo for military action approved by the Security Council; this approval would not have been possible if the operations did not originate on the ground and the Arab states did not prove they can take crucial decisions on their own without waiting for the appro...
Vilnius has been a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city for centuries, as evident in religious buildings of 9 different faiths, each of them pre-dating World War 1. Today that atmosphere still remains, with ethnicLithuaniansmaking less than 60% of the population (Poles– 19,4%,Russians–...
He also @scribes the hopelessness of the undertaking be cause of the diiuaity among the Allied foxes and the White Russians. the in- difference of the Russian peasant, and the power of the Bolsheviks. One can only conclude that, as one contempor- ary critic put it, Ottawa was as "...
There were the monarchist White Russians fighting this. The fight back in the USSA will be 10X more than by the White Russian Army and the other loyalist anti-Bolsheviks. This will not be a cake-walk for the Bolshevik Jews. If anything, I assume a full-blown civil war. In fact, ...
it was not until the second half of the 19thcentury that anarchism emerged as a coherent positive theory. This work was mainly started by four people — a German, Max Stirner (1806–1856), a Frenchman, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), and two Russians, Michael Bakunin (1814–1876) ...
the nature of the independent polish state envisioned by imperial Germany iotl did actually help the Russians a lot, considering the Lithuanian and Ruthenian Poles volunteered en masse when they read what was happening. German was made a co-official language in a country that h...
The Nazis tried this, with their "living space" being Poland and the Ukraine - we called that genocide.. But the had two good precedents. The Spanish did it in Central and South America. We call that colonialism. The English (and other Europeans) did it in North America. We call that...