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Anhalt
Anhalt , former state, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg. Dessau, the capital, and Köthen were the chief cities. Nonmountainous except for the outliers of the lower Harz Mts. in the west, it was drained by the Elbe,... Read more |
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Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic the German government in the post-World War I period, so called because the Reichstag (national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November 9, 1918, and its constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of... Read more |
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Weimar
Weimar , city (1994 pop. 58,807), E Thuringia , central Germany, on the Ilm River. It is an industrial, transportation, and cultural center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and furniture. Known in the 10th cent., Weimar became important only in the 16th... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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Wilhelm Karl Severing
Wilhelm Karl Severing , 1875-1952, German statesman. A Social Democrat, he served (1907-33) in the Reichstag, was German minister of the interior (1928-30), and was Prussian minister of the interior during most of the period from 1920 to 1932. He supported the Weimar Republic.... Read more |
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Buchenwald
Buchenwald , village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in 1937. It held approximately 20,000 prisoners during World War II.... Read more |
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motorway
motorway. Class of highway with two or more lanes in each direction, designed and regulated for use by fast motor traffic only. The German super-highway concept dates from 1911, and a small length of express road was opened between Witzleben and Nikolassee, Berlin, in 1921. In Northern Italy a... Read more |
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Lippe
Lippe , former state, N central Germany, between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser River. It was incorporated in 1947 into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Detmold, the former capital, was the chief city. Originally included in the duchy of Saxony, Lippe became (12th cent.) a lordship under... Read more |
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national assembly
national assembly name of a number of past and present constituent or legislative bodies. In France, under the constitutions of the Fourth and Fifth republics, the lower house of parliament has been called the national assembly. Usually, however, the name national assembly has been applied to... Read more |
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Brunswick (state)
Brunswick , Ger. Braunschweig , former state, central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony, Hanover, and Westphalia. The region of Braunschweig is situated on the North German plain and in the northern foothills of the Harz Mts. The land is drained by the Leine and Oker... Read more |
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Ludendorff, Erich
...Hollweg and dominated his successors. With the collapse of Russia, Ludendorff extended German power far eastward in the vindictive...armistice. He was dismissed by the new government. In the Weimar Republic, he took part in two unsuccessful rightist putsches... |
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Hitler, Adolf
...Workers' Party) after 1921, he was briefly imprisoned by the Weimar Republic following a failed coup d’état in Munich in 1923, during which time he...in spring 1940, occupied southeastern Europe, and attacked Russia in the summer of 1941. The fighting was accompanied by untold... |
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Borodin, Alexander (Porfiryevich)
...failure at f.p. 1877, the year in which he visited Liszt at Weimar. Liszt in 1880 ensured a perf. of the First Sym. at Baden-Baden which initiated Borodin's popularity outside Russia. In 1869 his friend Stasov suggested an opera on the subject... |
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Liszt, Ferencz
...he toured widely, incl. Russia, his mistress by now being...became Kapellmeister at the Weimar court, staying until 1859. In this decade he made Weimar a pre-eminent mus. centre...divided his time between Rome, Weimar, and Budapest, and his amorous... |
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Rathenau, Walther
...which was one of the supporters of the Weimar Republic, in 1918, becoming a financial...concluded the Rapallo Treaty with Soviet Russia on 16 April 1922, whereby the two countries...Britain and France, but for Germany and Russia it was a first step out of diplomatic... |
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Social Democrat
...Norway (1887), Austria (1889), the USA (1897), and Russia (1898), where a split came in 1903 into BOLSHEVIK and Menshevik...was more common. The German SDP was the largest party in the Weimar Republic, governing the country until 1933, when it was banned... |
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Glazunov, Alexander (Konstantinovich)
...hailed as a precocious masterpiece. Glazunov later met Liszt at Weimar and was influenced by his and Wagner's mus. Cond. in Paris...Petersburg Cons. 1905 after which his comps. became fewer. Left Russia 1928, visited USA 1929, then lived in Paris. Cosmopolitan... |
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Ziloti (Siloty), Alexander
...1945). Russ. pianist and conductor. Pupil of Liszt at Weimar 1883–6. Début Moscow 1880, Leipzig 1883. Prof. of pf...Moscow PO 1901–2; formed own orch. in St Petersburg. Left Russia 1919, settled in NY. Taught at Juilliard Sch. 1925–42... |
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German Second empire
...Austria-Hungary must be honoured even if it meant war against Russia and France. During WORLD WAR I most German African territories...NATIONS. At the end of the war the emperor abdicated and the WEIMAR REPUBLIC was created. |
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anti-Semitism
...extent of popular (as well as official) anti-Semitism. In Russia, where Jews had settled relatively recently, they began to be...Versailles Treaty, the ensuing widespread economic misery of the Weimar Republic, and its political weakness made many Germans very... |
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A Comparison of Russia and the Weimar Republic - Part 1
...parallels between today's Russia and the old Weimar Republic of Germany. Weimar...dictatorship. Similarities between Russia and Weimar are disturbing. After all...through interpreter] The young Weimar Republic and ... |
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Avoiding Weimar Russia
...very great -- but that doesn't mean a ton of money is necessary to keep the Russians from going the way of the ill-fated Weimar Republic in Germany -- hyperinflation followed by dictatorship. The way to help the Russians is through selective aid, he... |
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Weimar FMs plus Russia meet in Paris Wednesday.
...known as forming the 'Weimar Triangle' group, and the Foreign Minister of Russia began talks here Wednesday...the European Union and Russia, including issues related...Foreign Ministry said. The Weimar Triangle countries are...the European Union and ... |
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Assassination stirs fear of Weimar era in...
...lawlessness is enveloping Russia today, as it did Germany...to be a milestone in Russia's long descent into a Weimar scenario?" DARK SYMBOLISM...to the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic, a troubled...prime ministers of Russia - Viktor Chernomyrdin... |
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Weimar Russia?(political structure and foreign policy)
...small number of fundamental questions. Is Russia unique or distinctive in any way? Has...the Soviet Union be re-created? Can Russia's present political system be thrown...anything definite that can be stated about Russia, or is it instead indeterminate, ever... |
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A Comparison of Russia and the Weimar Republic - Part 2
...similarities between Russia today and Germany...known as the Weimar Republic. Weimar...international community. Weimar lasted 14 years...concerns that Russia may be producing...similarities between the Weimar Republic and ... |
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Germany's Weimar Republic: A lesson for Russia's future?(NEWS)
...not to become complacent just because Russia seems so poor and weak at the moment...defeat in World War I and the chaos of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to Adolf Hitler...All but the last of these is present in Russia, and we see that political consensus... |
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THE WEIMAR TRIANGLE SUMMIT.
...French cooperation within the Weimar Triangle. Now is the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Weimar Triangle and the grouping has...meeting of the presidents of the Weimar Triangle with the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, BronisA... |
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Weimar Triangleneeds a role
...name one EU policy on which the Weimar three are united or any instance...project in Brussels. "The Weimar Triangle urgently needs to be...Poland's energy talks veto over Russia's boycott of Polish produce - suggests that a stronger Weimar Triangle is needed ... |
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The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy.
...the recent literature on the Weimar Republic by German and foreign...with him that by 1930, the Weimar political system had been eroded...defeat and revolution, the Weimar Republic faced determined opposition...recent Bolshevik takeover in Russia was fresh ... |
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