The Soviet Union Who's Who in the Soviet Union Vergleichende System- und Industriestudien Manfred Wehdorn/Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Baudenkmäler der Technik und Industrie in Österreich, Bd. 1; Judit Balázs, Die Türkei Horst A. Wessel, Die Entwicklung des elektrischen Nachricht...
His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later. FILE ...
After the Bolshevik victory Petliura went into exile and was murdered outside a Paris bookstore in May 1926. His assassin was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist poet, Sholem Schwarzbard. While prosecutors alleged that he was a Soviet agen...
The fourth decade (1978–88)was ushered in bya great world conference of WHO and UNICEF in Alma Ata,a city of the Asiatic part of the Soviet Union. In reaction against excessive attention to high-technology, theAlma Ata conference emphasized the great importance of primary health care, pr...
She met Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, received gifts from admirers at every stop, and, when she returned to Russia, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union distinction. She trained snipers for the rest of WWII, but never returned to combat. How She Went Out: Pavlichenko went ba...
aristocrats and Georgian intellectuals flowing in her veins, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union at a time when the West was terrified about its power. However, had it not been for the skeleton in her family's closet, she could have become a leading French ...
Gagarin’s friend, Colonel Vladimir Komarov was meant to lead ‘Soyuz-1’ to glory, but failed to escape a tragic end. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were in a cut-throat space race. Each wished to show superiority over their ideological enemy. ...
He points to the wars in Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait over the past two decades, as well as the difficulty Russia faced in its transition to a market-based economy after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Because of the present situation in Iraq, Alhajji doubts that country can reach 5 million...
Like the Soviet Union, Germany has not always competed in the Olympics in the same way. At one point, the Federal Republic of Germany represented Western Germany while the German Democratic Republic represented Eastern Germany, so Germany has not competed in each Olympics as a unified country, ...
Lenin spent his adult life agitating for and leading revolutionary communist activities in Russia. This culminated in the 1917 October Revolution, which brought Lenin's Bolshevik faction to power. In the wake of the Revolution, the reign of the Bolshevik regime under Lenin was marked by economic ...