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Why did the October Revolution happen? Why did the peasants revolt in Russia? Why was the Russian Civil War important? What factors led to the overthrow of the Russian tsar and the eventual triumph of the Bolsheviks? Why was the French Revolution considered a social revolution?
Why the Crimean War mattersGary J Bass
During the 17thcentury, Russia’s frontier expansion brought it to war with the Ottoman Empire. In 1774, the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca was signed, and it ceded the fortresses under Russian control on the Kerch Peninsula and created a Crimean Tartan state that was independent. In 1783, the pe...
Why Did Lord Novgorod the Great Fall? The Novgorod Republic and Its Neighbors in 1470–1471 P. V. Lukina,* and S. V. Polekhovb,** aInstitute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia bRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, ...
How did the rebel-controlled territories begin? When Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly president was driven from office by mass protests in February 2014, Russia responded by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. It then threw its weight behind an insurgency in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern...
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the dark and some have sharp teeth.During the day, there is enough light.Here, under the sea, everything is blue and green.When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands.When you have bottles of air on your back, you can stay in deep water for a long time.However, you...
inadequacy of the tactics of the day. The result was a depressing series of bloody stalemates; the Marne, Ypres, Verdun and the Somme… Morale plummeted; the French army mutinied on the Western Front and the Russia revolted on the Eastern Front and no one went anywhere on either ...
Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? Why did the Russian Civil War begin? Why did Russia pull out of WWI? Why did the Sardinians participate in the Crimean War? Why didn't the Crimeans help with the Battle of Vienna? Why did the Schlieffen Plan ultimately collapse?