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He hasfled to Moscow, according to Russian state media. Maher Assad The younger brother of the ousted president was the commander of the 4th Armored Division, which Syrian opposition activists have accused of killings, torture, extortion and drug trafficking, in addition t...
The present article benefited from a small research grant from Oxford Brookes University and from questions and feedback received following presentations of early versions to the BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution and the "Solidarities and Loyalties in Russian Society, History and Culture"...
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He remained in the upper echelons of the Soviet government, serving in ministerial roles until his death in mid-1926.Georgy Gapon (1870-1906) was a Russian Orthodox priest and political agitator who contributed to political unrest in 1904-5. Gapon was born to an impoverished peasant family ...
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Russians were in despair over the toll that World War I was taking on the country and wanted change, and that war-weariness allowed Lenin and his Red Guards, a secretly organized army of peasants, workers, and disaffected Russian military men, to seize control of the government in a nearly...