Russian Revolutions
Russia 1917
Synopsis
Historians largely agree that revolution was inevitable in Russia after 1861. The maintenance of strict authoritarian rule and the growing separation of people...
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"Russia, at the turn of the 19th century, was ruled by the world's most inefficient, petrifying, abusive, corrupt, clumsy and uninterprising bureaucracy"
- J.N. Westwood-
According to Westwood, th...
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A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record $18.5 million at auction Wednesday.The sale of the translucent pink egg top...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMATION, ADDING INFO ON
RUSSIA-JAPAN TIES)
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a reformer and tenacious
survivor of a number of political bat...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Approximately 1,000 people were detained in the
two nights of rioting which rocked Estonia Thursday and Friday, the
police confirmed on Sunday after a quiet ...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Estonian archaeologists finished their search for
the coffins of soldiers buried at a controversial site in Tallinn on
Tuesday evening, the Estonian defence ...
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Riga (dpa) - National leaders in Latvia and Lithuania pledged
their continuing support for Estonia on Wednesday in an escalating
row with their common neighbour, Russia.
...
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A judge dismissed a challenge to the Norton Simon Museum of Art's ownership of two prized 16th century paintings that had been seized by the Nazis.Federal Judge John F. Walker did not give reasons ...
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Question 1 of 10:She was to become one
America
's best-known critics, but how did
Dorothy
first make a living?A fashion model
A pianist
A nannyA secretaryQuestion 2 of 10:The first of many trage...
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MOSCOW, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would
allow a landmark art exhibition to travel to London after
Britain provided "immunity from seizure" to protect the works
from being confisc...
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Russian Revolutions
Comparing and Contrasting the Russian Revolutions
Rare Faberge egg sells for $18.5 million
