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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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Savings Bonds
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...back citizens at the promised rate of interest, its allies in the war either could not make payments, as was the case with tsarist Russia, or made them at a much lower rate interest than originally promised, as did the United Kingdom, France, Italy...
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Debt and Investment, Foreign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...became profoundly dependent upon American loans to finance their war efforts. By 1920 European governments, including that of tsarist Russia, owed the U.S. government $12 billion. European investors had drawn their U.S. balances down to $3 billion...
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Baptists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...extensive Baptist movement in Continental Europe, spreading to Slavic-speaking peoples. Baptists were generally persecuted in Tsarist Russia , increased in numbers during the early years of the Soviet regime but later suffered from the restrictions on religious...
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absolutism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...nineteenth-century Meiji Japan. This definition is, however, not uncontroversial: the label has also been applied to Tsarist Russia, where the transition was from feudalism to communism , and some would deny that Japan was ever a feudal society in...
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (Andreyevich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...the art of clear and colourful orchestration, and to us today his mus. seems to epitomize the brilliance and pageantry of Tsarist Russia. Lately the splendour of his operas has been re-discovered. His influence on his most distinguished pupil, Stravinsky...
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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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Piłsudski, Joseph Klemens
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Joseph Klemens (1867–1935) Polish general and statesman. His involvement in early revolutionary activity against Tsarist Russia had led to his imprisonment. In World War I he raised three Polish legions to fight Russia, but German refusal to...
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Latvia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...lasted until 1721, when parts again reverted to Russia, the remainder succumbing in the partitions of POLAND . From the 1880s Tsarist governments imposed a policy of Russification to counteract growing demands for independence, which was proclaimed in April...
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Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...Russian monk Born in Prokoskoye in Siberia, the son of a peasant, he claimed mystical healing powers. He came to live at the Tsarist court in 1907. His beneficial treatment of the haemophiliac Crown Prince won him a disastrous hold over Tsarina Alexandra...
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