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History of post-Soviet Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russia was the largest of the fifteen republics that made up the Soviet Union, accounting for over 60 percent of the GDP and over half of the Soviet population. Russia managed to make the other ex-Soviet republics voluntarily disarm themselves of nuclear weapons and concentrated them under the command of the still effective rocket and space forces, but for the most part the Russian army and fleet were in near disarray by 1991. Russia opposed the expansion of NATO into the former Soviet bloc nations of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary in 1997 and, particularly, the second NATO expansion into Baltic states in 2004. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_post-communist_Russia   (7865 words)

Russia on Encyclopedia.com In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533-84) was crowned czar of all Russia. Russia, having suffered a severe diplomatic setback at the Congress of Berlin (see Berlin, Congress of, 1878), eventually abandoned the Three Emperors' League with Germany and Austria-Hungary and in 1892 entered into an alliance with republican France. Russia thus reached the frontiers of Afghanistan and China and the shores of the Pacific Ocean. www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/russia_history.asp   (4580 words)

AllRefer.com - Russia : History : Post-Soviet Russia (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia Russia did, however, resist the idea of resorting to military intervention in Iraq in order to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, and as the United States pressed in 2003 for a Security Council resolution supporting the use of force, Russia joined France in vowing to veto such a resolution. The invasion of Dagestan by Islamic militants from Chechnya in 1999 and a series of terrorist bombings in Russia during Aug.–Sept., 1999, however, led to Russian air raids on Chechnya in Sept., 1999, and a subsequent full-scale ground invasion of the breakaway republic that again devastated its capital and resulted in ongoing guerrilla warfare. Primakov acted as a stabilizing influence, avoiding economic disaster in the wake of Russia's Aug., 1998, financial crisis, but his increasing popularity and his public support for the Communists in his government even as their party was mounting an impeachment of Yeltsin in the Duma led to his firing in May, 1999. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Russia-history-post-soviet-russia.html   (1726 words)

Post-Soviet Russia (from Russia) --  Encyclopædia Britannica Under Yeltsin, popular histories and general opinion were critical of the Soviet Union and nostalgic for the prerevolutionary years, but during Putin's tenure, aspects of the Soviet period—such as victory in World War II and the country's subsequent status as a superpower—were again glorified. Russia is a federal republic occupying eastern and northeastern Europe and all of northern Asia. Those oligarchs who either openly opposed Putin during the presidential campaign or were critical of his policies faced the Kremlin's wrath, causing many to doubt Putin's commitment to freedom of speech and of the press, particularly as the state increased its control over Russia's major media outlets. www.britannica.com /eb/article-38566   (2129 words)

Soviet Calculators History The history of the development of Soviet calculators, their features and interesting characteristics of the most relevant models are described. Taking into account the special circumstances of the development of Soviet calculators, including the geopolitical aspects, it becomes clear that if Soviet engineers developed the calculators not basing the design on a level-by-level scanning of the microcircuits of their imported analogues, they were constantly introducing some highlights into their work. The Soviet "Elektronika" calculator shown at the left is a typical representative of this generation of calculators. www.xnumber.com /xnumber/russian_calcs.htm   (7136 words)

Soviet Archives Exhibit But the documents that the Library of Congress has here chosen from the 500 made available from the Russian archives cover the entire range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991. The legendary secretiveness and general inaccessibility of the entire Soviet archival system was maintained throughout the Gorbachev era. The first section covers internal politics and aspects of Soviet reality that were hidden or falsified in official propaganda. www.ibiblio.org /expo/soviet.exhibit/soviet.archive.html   (514 words)

ISN Security Watch - Russian oligarch’s case a sign of the times The cases against Yukos and Khodorkovsky are a pivotal moment in the history of post-Soviet Russia. It will be decided in the court of history, and the court of history will be harsh with all of us.” Throughout the trail, the Kremlin and the state-controlled media did a lot to boost the perception that Khodorkovsky and his colleagues are criminals. As a result, Russia had the second-largest number of billionaires (27) on the Forbes magazine list of global billionaires that was released in March. www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=11093   (1246 words)

RUSSIA Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved. The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia. Russia was as weary of war as a country could be, but the Provisional Government decided to stay in the war against Germany. www.friesian.com /russia.htm   (8586 words)

Putin's Good Fortune -- Alexander Sokolowski All of this stands in stark contrast to the familiar patterns of Russia's budgetary politics throughout most of the 1990s when protracted bargaining, concessions to the opposition and high deficits were the rule. Although Russia will not be able to sustain this rate of growth, the economy should continue to grow in 2001 at a rate of 4 percent, according to a recent IMF forecast. While the IMF's record in Russia is certainly not perfect and the IMF may have inadvertently pushed Russia to adopt unrealistic budgets during the 1990s, its major role in getting Russia to commit to lower deficits and financial stabilization is undeniable. www.brook.edu /printme.wbs?page=/pagedefs/a11b09148f43ff3a55b168ea0a141465.xml   (953 words)

History of Russia brief from Arctur Travel - Gorbachev post Soviet time In March 1991 when Gorbachev launched an all-union referendum about the future Soviet federation, Russia and several other republics added some supplementary questions, one of the Russian questions was whether the voters were in favor of a directly elected president. In the spring of 1989 a new Soviet parliament, the Congress of Peoples’ Deputies, was convened and M. Gorbachev became the Soviet president with broad powers. His goal was to bring the Soviet Union up to economic par with such capitalist countries as Japan, Germany, and the United States. www.arcturtravel.com /ussr5.html   (281 words)

AEI - Short Publications Overlooked in the victory of the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, in the Duma election last December and President Vladimir Putin's overwhelming victory in the presidential election three months later was a milestone in Russia's post-Soviet political history: the precipitous decline of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). Consequently, while the KPRF appears to be heading toward the ashbin of history, the statist, nationalist mindset endures--most menacingly, in the form of Vladimir Putin's lurch toward authoritarianism and the success of the new Motherland (Rodina) party--thus posing an enduring obstacle in Russia's transition toward liberal, democratic capitalism. The forerunner of the KPRF, the Russian Communist Party (RCP), was founded in 1990 by the members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) opposed to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.[1] After the failed August 1991 coup by Communist hardliners, the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, banned the CPSU and the RCP. www.aei.org /publications/pubID.21318,filter.foreign/pub_detail.asp   (3401 words)

H-Net Review: Carlos Eduardo Rebello de Mendonca on Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era As we have remarked, this "peculiarity" of Russian history of offering examples of sharp and swift turns in all matters political and social has been noted by various authors, not only those with social democratic views. Medvedev chides Yeltsin himself, his aides, and supporters (while posing as "liberal democrats") for providing only the crudest basis for their political stance, something easily proved by the fact that "only in recent years have books on the history of Western or Russian liberalism begun to appear in Moscow. Therefore this history concentrates on events that were from the beginning conventionally acknowledged as such, that is to say the public actions of the main political players. www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=326201095872433   (2285 words)

Chronology of Russia An assortment of chronologies of special times, places, people, and events related to Russia and Russian history. Peter's Westernization of Russia culminated in the destruction of the autocracy by the Socialist Revolution of 1917. The period of the Kievan Russian Empire, destroyed by the Mongol - Tatars, and the rise of Moscovy to recentralize the demolished empire. www.bucknell.edu /Academics/Colleges_Departments/Academic_Departments/Foreign_Language_Programs/Russian_Studies/Resources/History/Chronology.html   (203 words)

Films Media Group - Post-Soviet Russia: Promises Deferred This comprehensive ten-year history of contemporary Russia since glasnost and perestroika presents a dismal picture of a nation in disarray, battling with seemingly insurmountable economic, social, and political problems. This is the documentary story of the man who subverted the Russian Revolution: born in 1879 in Georgia, a region colonized by Russia at the beginning of the 19th century; studied for the priesthood but soon abandoned piety for insurrection and agitat.. In this timely documentary, the difficulties involved in Russia's attempt to privatize its collective farms are seen through the eyes of a young Canadian volunteer. www.films.com /id/8924   (377 words)

People's Weekly World - A look at Russia’s Yeltsin years And if there was anyone suited to write a history of post-Soviet Russia under Yeltsin, it is Medvedev, a prominent Soviet era dissident who authored many critical works on Soviet history such as Let History Judge. Despite this defect, Post Soviet Russia is a compelling and disturbing account of the Yeltsin period. In his fascinating Post Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era, Roy Medvedev recounts the turbulent years of the Yeltsin presidency. www.pww.org /article/articleprint/3377   (637 words)

Power and the Kremlin In the history of post-Soviet Russia he enjoys unrivalled authority, not only among the public, but also among the men in suits and uniforms who are his instruments of power. With the rise of Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin, historic seat of Russian tsars and Communist rulers, has its youngest and most vigorous occupant for years. Click the guide to find out if Vladimir Putin is set to become a latter-day tsar. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/russian_elections/russia_map/default.stm   (89 words)

History > Russia (Pre- & Post-Soviet Union) INDIAPLAZA.COM Home  :  Books  :  History > Russia (Pre- & Post-Soviet Union) Russia in the Age of Peter the Great     From Kiev Rus' to the Collapse of the Soviet Union www.indiaplaza.com /books/ls.aspx?c=1243597   (152 words)

Russia Illustrated history of Russia and the Former USSR History and Culture of Russia / The Romanovs History & Culture of Russia / The Path to Revolution www.teacheroz.com /russia.htm   (1129 words)

Torture's Long Shadow These czars were hardly bleeding-heart liberals, but long experience in the use of these "interrogation" practices in Russia had taught them that once condoned, torture will destroy their security apparatus. Thus, in its heyday, Joseph Stalin's notorious NKVD (the Soviet secret police) became nothing more than an army of butchers terrorizing the whole country but incapable of solving the simplest of crimes. Vladimir Bukovsky, who spent nearly 12 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and psychiatric hospitals for nonviolent human rights activities, is the author of several books, including "To Build a Castle" and "Judgment in Moscow." Now 63, he has lived primarily in Cambridge, England, since 1976. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html   (1647 words)

POST SOVIET HISTORY Emergence of a New Russia by Strobe Talbott Elections in Russia - Impact of a Legislative Crisis Future of Russia - Intellectual Capital, Sept. 25,1997 dtra.lingnet.org /post-soviet.htm   (128 words)

Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Shelf Location: History & Politics > General European History > Russia/ Post-Soviet Union History -- Shelf F08 A regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement, he is a professor of history at the University of London. Description: Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53733877&srchTerms=0312421958&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN   (231 words)

Russian History e-Resources Links Rulers of Russia and the Soviet Union (in Russian) Soviet (mainly literary) journals of the 1920s - e-texts of articles (in Russian) Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (former Central Party Archive) - list of some of the main holdings www.uea.ac.uk /his/webcours/russia/links   (1304 words)

The Cummings Center Series Ben Eklof is Professor of History and Education at Indiana University and editor of Khronika: Chronicle of Education in Russia and Eurasia. She has authored a number of scholarly papers on the history of Russian education, as well as on educational policy and history teaching in contemporary Russia and co-edited a volume entitled, The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives (Tel Aviv, 1999). Among his books are Russian Peasant Schools (1986), Soviet Briefing (1989), School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia (ed., 1993), Democracy in the Russian School (ed., 1993), Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (ed., 1994), The World of the Russian Peasant (ed., 1990). www.tau.ac.il /~russia/series/book20.html   (567 words)

English Books > History/War > Russia (pre & post Soviet Union) History/War > Russia (pre & post Soviet Union)"> Computing In Russia: The History Of Computer Devices And Information Technology Revealed Chronicle Of The Russian Tsars: The Reign-By-Reign Rule Of The Rulers Of Imperial Russia book.netstoreusa.com /index/bkbhm200C.shtml   (374 words)

H-Net - H-Russia Discussion Network H-RUSSIA encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. ANN: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2006-03-06 - 2006-03-07 H-NET Distribution List for News and Announcements on behalf of H-Net Announcements Folkloric elements in Soviet children's literature: QUERY Lindsay Manz [mailto:lmanz10@yahoo.com] www.h-net.org /~russia   (99 words)

Whistle Stopper Political Forums - Post-Soviet Russia: Should you wish to post or utilize many of the advanced features of WS, you will need to register. "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia" - Paul Klebnikov "Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia" - Walter Laqueur www.whistlestopper.com /forum/showthread.php?p=15635   (332 words)

Glimmers Of An Investor-Friendly Russia BP's $6.75 billion commitment to create a giant new oil company here left businesspeople asking whether Russia, after a decade of zigzagging economic policies, had finally become safe, fertile ground for foreign investors. DALLAS (Reuters) - Top leadership for the unions at American Airlines sat down this week to see if they can stomach a call for $1.8 billion in wage cuts the world's largest carrier said are needed to keep it in business, union officials said. That it was BP taking the plunge was seen as an especially encouraging sign, since the company's earlier ventures here were so... www.webprowire.com /summaries/398559.html   (224 words)

Countries of the World - immigration, geography, economy, government, history, religion, climate, travel, maps, flags Countries of the World - immigration, geography, economy, government, history, religion, climate, travel, maps, flags You have reached an invalid page address at photius.com /.../russia_government_post_soviet_border_p~10869.html   (78 words)

WashingtonPost.com: International: Russia This document describes the history, government, politics and economy of Russia. A detailed list of facts and figures for Russia. The links below will take you out of this site. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/worldref/country/russia.htm   (77 words)

The Cummings Center Series Among his books are Russian Peasant Schools (1986), Soviet Briefing (1989), School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia (ed., 1993), Democracy in the Russian School (ed., 1993), Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (ed., 1994), The World of the Russian Peasant (ed., 1990). She has authored a number of scholarly papers on the history of Russian education, as well as on educational policy and history teaching in contemporary Russia and co-edited a volume entitled, The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives (Tel Aviv, 1999). During the 1992/93 academic year he lectured in Russian and Soviet history at Rostov State University. www.tau.ac.il /~russia/series/book20.html   (77 words)

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