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Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk
Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk , 1934-, Ukrainian leader, president of Ukraine (1991-94), b. Velyky Zhityn, Ukraine. A political economist and long-time Communist party ideologue, he became chairman of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet in 1990. When hard-liners attempted to overthrow Russian president Mikhail ... Read more |
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Ternopil
Tarnopol see Ternopil , Ukraine.... Read more |
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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma , 1938-, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine (1994-2005). Formerly the manager of the Soviet Union's largest missile factory, he was a member of the Ukrainian Communist party's central committee (1981-91). Elected (1991) to Ukraine's supreme soviet, he served... Read more |
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Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky , 1898-1967, Soviet marshal, b. Ukraine. He joined the Communist party in 1926. In World War II Malinovsky commanded an army in the Stalingrad (later Volgograd) offensive and later in Ukraine. He became (1956) a member of the central committee of the Communist party and... Read more |
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Mukacheve
Mukacheve, Ukraine Munkács Founded as a fortress to guard the Carpathian mountains and named after a certain Mukach with the possessive suffix ‐evo added. Its former Hungarian name reflects its Hungarian possession in 1018–1920; it was ceded to Czechoslovakia in 1920, to the... Read more |
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Poltava
Poltava , city (1989 pop. 315,000), capital of Poltava region, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper. It is an industrial center and important rail junction in the rich black-earth agricultural region. The city has railroad shops, food- and... Read more |
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Cossacks
Cossacks , Rus. Kazaki, Ukr. Kozaky, peasant-soldiers in Ukraine and in several regions of Russia who, until 1918, held certain privileges in return for rendering military service. The first Cossack companies were formed in the 15th cent., when Ukraine, then part of the unified Polish-Lithuanian... Read more |
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Ukraine
Ukraine , Ukr. Ukraina, republic (2005 est. pop. 47,425,000), 232,046 sq mi (601,000 sq km), E Europe. It borders on Poland in the northwest; on Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova in the southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and northeast; and on... Read more |
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Natan Sharansky
Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky For nine years (1977-86), Anatoly Shcharansky (born 1948) personified the desperate plight of many Soviet Jews. Caught in the vice of great power politics, Shcharansky suffered a prolonged and difficult imprisonment because of his wish to emigrate to Israel and... Read more |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia , Belarus , and Ukraine . Between Dec. 8 and Dec. 21, the three original signatories were joined by Armenia , Azerbaijan... Read more |
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Ukraine Party Goes From Dissidence to Power; After Successful Push for...
...Canada as Ukraine's first...of Rukh, Ukraine's leading independence movement...tore the movement in two...opposition movements in many other...with former Communists? Citing...the ex-Communists. Pointing...see as the Communist-dominated...against the ... |
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Ukraine Vote Boosts Confidence in Unity; Even Russian Areas Backed Independence
...independence movement, was least...independence Rukh movement to Kravchuk, a former Communist - not to frighten...live in the Ukraine. The republic...wealthy as the Ukraine must have been...In Kiev's Independence Square these... |
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Eurasia letter: will Ukraine return to Russia?
...of the old Communist leadership...hands of the Communist authorities...political movement in Ukraine is Rukh...Ukrainian independence. Following...national independence referendum...national independence, or it could...independent Ukraine at a time... |
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Nationalist sees a free Ukraine within 5 years
...an independence movement has been gathering...by Bush to visit Ukraine has a political...descent. But the independence movement makes...to cooperate. Ukraine has cooperated...The Ukrainian independence movement has been...and the skill of communist leaders such ... |
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Split Opposition Falters in Ukraine; Divisions Help Kuchma Retain Power
...uniting with the communists to oust him...character of Ukraine's political...republics, Ukraine never developed...grass-roots movement for independence that distinguished...the former Communist Party boss who ran Ukraine in Soviet times... |
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Political extremism in Ukraine: PART I
...of the Popular movement of Ukraine for...or national, Communists, personified...consensus on which Ukraine's independent...Brown groups in Ukraine, as well as Russian...organization, State Independence for Ukraine (DSU).There...socialist and Communist parties and ... |
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Commitment to independence
...for a general movement for Ukrainian...the push for independence in the early...who considered independence to be unequivocal...deciding votes for independence in Ukraine's Parliament...from frightened Communists who wanted to... |
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Independent, but not yet free: Ukraine.
...tenacious opposition movement of the sort that...Europe. True, Ukraine started with a...at the root of Ukraine's current plight...both democracy and independence at once, the Ukrainian...compromise with the ex-communists led by Leonid Kravchuk...poses no threat to Ukraine's ... |
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Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence
...developments in Ukraine. The book...namely, that Ukraine's independence was made possible...sociopolitical actors: Ukraine's cultural...called national communists within the Communist Party of Ukraine...the strike movement of the Donbas... |
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Ukraine Nationhood: Daunting Reality; Long-Sought Independence Brings...
...we let him use Communist Party headquarters...lived in dread of independence in the Ukraine for centuries...make the fertile Ukraine a vast garden...Ukraine wants real independence," said Deputy...independence movement. For the rest... |
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