Kiev, Tashkent and Baku. TheSovietUnion's roots lay inthe October Revolution of 1917, which saw the Bolsheviks overthrow theRussian Provisional Government...
the precedent of recognizing theSovietUnion as the legal successor of theRussianEmpire, and so recognizing theRussian Federation as theSoviet Union's...
the takeover of Russia by the Bolsheviks, in 1920 theRussianSoviet Republic under Lenin became the first country inthe world inthe modern era to allow...
Slavs andthe Finnic peoples. For most of the 20th century, the history of Russia is essentially that of theSovietUnion. Its fall in 1991 led, as in most...
prostitutes intheRussianEmpire. There was no prohibition on engaging in prostitution before the revolution, but there was punishment for procuring and pimping...
citizens, and foreign organizations. This article covers the foreign policy of theRussian Federation since the dissolution of theSovietUnionin late 1991...
The Law of Ukraine "On the Condemnation andProhibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine andthe Decolonization of Toponymy" (Ukrainian:...
which Russia withdrew in 1917) andtheRussian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within theSovietUnion (USSR)...
the hierarchy of theRussianEmpire, Russia considered itself “Great Russia”, Belarus “White Russia”, and Ukraine to be “Little Russia”. As a result of...
After theRussian Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks took over parts of the collapsing RussianEmpirein 1918, they faced enormous odds against the German...
TheSovietUnion's various constituent republics each had their own anthem (generally referred as a "state anthem"). TheRussianSoviet Federative Socialist...
policy of theSovietUnion Harm reduction List of anti-cannabis organizations Medellín Cartel Mexican drug war Puerto Rican drug war Prohibitionism Tobacco...
decolonization in Ukraine began during the dissolution of theSovietUnionand accelerated during the Revolution of Dignity, the Russo-Ukrainian War and especially...
any Russian, to theSovietUnion to look after the affairs of Allied Drug and Chemical. Hammer traveled back and forth from theSovietUnion for the next...
4% of the population of St. Petersburg were alcoholics in 1913. At the beginning of World War I, prohibition was introduced intheRussianEmpire, limiting...
TheSovietUnion national football team (Russian: сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, romanized: sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national football team of the...
after the 1917 fall of theRussianEmpire failed, andin 1922 Chechnya became part of SovietRussiaandin December 1922 part of the newly formed Soviet Union...
inthe Neo-Babylonian Empire were persecuted and deported. Antisemitism was also practiced by the governments of many different empires (Roman Empire)...
began to spread across the vast areas of theRussianEmpire. The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, andthe ruling class. It included...
is a Russian producer of alcoholic beverages, located in Kizlyar, Dagestan. It is one of the five largest Russian brandy producers. Viticulture and winemaking...