Why did the Mongols invade Russia? Why did the Crimean War start? Why did Russia join the Syrian Civil War? Why was the annexation of Crimea illegal? Why did the US intervene in the Russian Civil War? Why is it called 'the Ukraine'?
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, ...
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 ...
The key Leninist defence of the actions of the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution is that they had no other choice. Complaints against the Bolshevik attacks on the gains of the revolution and the pro-revolutionary Left in Russia are met with a mantra involving the white terror, the primitive...
1868 (but who survived removal from office by one vote), House Republicans refused to appropriate any cash for the purchase. Moreover, a prominent Massachusetts family claimed it should receive some of the $7.2 million as repayment for arms it allegedly provided Russia during the Crimean War. ...
Lapid vowed that “Israel will not be a route to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and other Western countries.” Israeli officials, however, were quoted in Israeli media saying that the government did not have authority to stop an Israeli company from d...
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?