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Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov , 1882-1949, Bulgarian Communist leader. A revolutionary from boyhood, he was a leader in the 1923 Communist uprising against Alexander Tsankov . When it failed, he fled Bulgaria and continued to work for the Communist cause. In 1933 he was arrested in Berlin for alleged complicity ...
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Georgi Maksimilianovich Malenkov
Georgi Maksimilianovich Malenkov , 1902-88, Soviet Communist leader. He rose to prominence through the party secretariat and was a trusted aide of Joseph Stalin . In 1946, he became a full member of the politburo and a deputy premier. He succeeded Stalin as premier in Mar., 1953, and was also very ...
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov , 1857-1918, Russian revolutionary and social philosopher. He was a leader in introducing Marxist theory to Russia and is often called the "Father of Russian Marxism." As a youth he joined the Populist organization Land and Freedom (see narodniki ), but he broke (...
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Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov , 1896-1974, Soviet marshal. He fought in the October Revolution (1917) and in the civil war (1918-20), which brought the Bolsheviks to power, and saw action against the Japanese on the Manchurian border (1938-39) and in the Finnish-Russian War. Promoted to full general...
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin , 1895-1975, Soviet military and political leader. He held posts in industrial management, was mayor of Moscow (1931-37) and chairman of the state bank (1937-41), and served on a military council in World War II. Made a marshal and a deputy premier in 1947, and a full...
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Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener , 1880-1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of the aeronautical observatory at Lindenberg; was a professor of geophysics and meteorology at Hamburg from 1919 to 1924; was professor of meteorology at the Univ. of Graz...
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George Balanchine
George Balanchine , 1904-83, American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. St. Petersburg, Russia, as Georgi Balanchivadze. The son of a composer, Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia. In 1924 he toured Europe and joined Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes ...
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Redgrave
Redgrave family of English actors. Sir Michael Redgrave, 1908-85, b. Bristol, Eng., was an actor, director, and writer. After his first professional performance in Counsellor-at-Law (1934), he appeared in an enormous number of stage plays, films, and television plays. He was especially adept at...
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International
International any of a succession of international socialist and Communist organizations of the 19th and 20th cent.
The First International
The First International was founded in London in 1864 as the International Workingmen's Association. Karl Marx was a key figure in inspiring its cr...
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Reichstag
Reichstag [Ger.,=imperial parliament], name for the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of the North German Confederation , and for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1945. Under the German Empire (1871-1918) the Reichst...
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