Why the Crimean War mattersGary J Bass
The Crimean War was fought primarily between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Both sides also had allies fighting with them, such as the French and British who supported the Ottomans and the Kingdom of Greece who fought on the side of the Russians....
Why did the Crimean War start? Why did the Spanish Revolution fail? Why was the Russian army near collapse by 1916? What is the most important factor behind the Tsar surviving the 1905 Revolution? Why are the other factors not as important?
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international law, the pro-annexation vid- eos develop narrative lines from the alleged baptism of Prince Vladimir in 988 in Kherson, through the war with the Crimean Khanate, the Crimean war and the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev, through to the event of the annexation. ...
What has happened since? In a televised address as the attack began, Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was needed to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists have been fighting for almost eight years. ...
According to a chronicle account independent both of Novgorod and of the Grand Prince of Moscow, it happened as a result of a conspiracy in which the clerk Stefan Bradaty who had come from Moscow and brought poison with him, and the posadnik Isak Boretskii, who bribed the prince's cook ...
I would be surprised if Geoffrey Pyatt actually read this blog (maybe he should, though), but it so happened that the U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine participated in the “Countering Information War in Ukraine” conference in Kyiv today. Among other things Mr. Pyatt said were the need for Ukrai...
It took me 20 years to gain a proper understanding of what had happened after 1991. Why had the US, which had behaved with such wisdom and foresight in Poland, acted with such cruel neglect in the case of Russia? Step by step, and memoir by memoir, the true story came to light. The...
(i.e. where the Nationalists where). The Makhnovists concluded that the only way this could have happened was if the Nationalists had allowed the Whites to cross their territory (the Nationalists disputed this, pointing to the fighting that had started two days before between them and the ...