Menelik invited Leontiev to return to Ethiopia with a Russian military mission. In 1895 Leontiev organized a delivery of Russian weapons for Ethiopia: 30,000 rifles, 5,000,000 cartridges, 5000 sabres, and a few cannons. The presence of the Russian advisers at the battle of...
He was awarded the Bronze Star for his time in the Army's counterintelligence unit developing informants that led to the Gestapo arrests. Upon his return to the U.S. after the war, he enrolled at Harvard, where his senior thesis on "the meaning of history" became legend, according to Is...
However, despite his efforts, Petliura did not succeed in pacifying his troops, especially as his close collaborator Dontsov was still encouraging the massacre of Jews. Finally, when the agreement was revealed, the World Zionist Organization rebelled against the Petliura regime. On January 17, 1...
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Josh Kemp came anyway. A 15-year-old with close-cropped blond hair and a broad, lanky frame, Josh is Curtis' son, captain of his youth hockey team. Last season, he played in a provincial all-star tournament. He also led his league in penalty minutes and has been working with Fiacco ...
Having ousted the short-lived Cossack monarchist regime of the so-called ‘Hetman’ (Pavlo Skoropadskyi), Petliura fought for and led Ukraine from 1918 to 1921. During these years he was in alliance with anti-communist Poles, since i...
and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argent...
Fostering separatism in other republics, including a Russia led by Boris Yeltsin, Baits triggered multiple challenges to empire. Gorbachev's counter, a planned 'Union of Sovereign States', ignited the August 1991 putsch that effectively ended the USSR. Following the abortive coup, Russia and the ...
Initiated the search at the end of February, led the search party in the area of height 1079 in the period Apr 17-27. Was born in 1937; in 1955 he graduated from secondary school №99 in Sverdlovsk and became a student at UPI, Physics and Technology Faculty. When he was in his 3rd...
Lenin led the revolutionary uprising that brought the Bolshevik faction of communism to power in Russia and across the territories of the old Russian Empire. This was one of the major events of world history in the 20th century, which would influence the course of economic, political, and strat...