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Russian Revolution
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...Russo-Japanese War had just demonstrated the weakness of the Tsarist state, the underlying cause for discontent in the urban areas...one hand, and the continued denial of political rights in Tsarist Russia on the other. More immediately, the revolution itself...
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Kazakhstan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...by Mongol khans, whose territories were steadily annexed by Tsarist Russia during the 19th century, the KHANATE being abolished...developed in the early 20th century and there was a bloody anti-Tsarist revolt in 1916. In 1917 a national government was proclaimed...
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Russia, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...with as many nations as possible, and Congress hoped that tsarist Russia might be willing to not only recognize the new nation...become the dominant power in the Far East. The fall of the tsarist regime in March 1917 was welcomed by many Americans, and the...
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Eighteen-Twelve
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Tchaikovsky, comp. 1880, commemorating Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812 and incorporating La Marseillaise and the Tsarist nat. anthem. Orig. idea was for perf. in a Moscow square with large orch., military band, cath. bells, and cannon...
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Russian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Russian Revolution the revolution in the Russian empire in 1917, in which the tsarist regime was overthrown and replaced by Bolshevik rule under Lenin. The Russian Revolution of 1905 is the name given to a demonstration...
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Mannerheim, Carl Gustav Emil, Baron von
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Carl Gustav Emil, Baron von (1867–1951) Finnish military leader and statesman. Trained as an officer in the Tsarist army, he rose to the rank of general, and, defeating the Finnish Bolsheviks (1918), he expelled the Soviet forces from...
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...of 1915 between Russia, Britain, and France (in which the Dardanelles and the Bosporus were to be incorporated into the Tsarist empire in return for British and French influence in the Middle East). Embarrassment was caused to the Allies when the Bolsheviks...
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student revolts
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...universities produced student movements ( Burschenschaften ) supporting German nationalism and opposing the rule of METTERNICH . In Tsarist Russia students who agitated for liberal reforms were imprisoned, exiled, or executed. In the period between the two World...
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Ukraine
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...subject to intensive campaigns to replace its culture and language with those of Russia. Nevertheless, after the collapse of Tsarist Russia in the Russian Revolutions of 1917, independence was declared with the encouragement of the German occupying forces...
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Belarus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...Polish and Lithuanian domination for centuries, until it came under Russian control in the late eighteenth century. When the Tsarist Empire collapsed after the Russian Revolution of 1917, independence was proclaimed briefly in July 1917, until the territory...
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