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121Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
122Yemen — /yem euhn, yay meuhn/, n. 1. Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen. 13,972,477; 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Cap.: (political) San a. Cap.:… …
123Hoxha, Enver — born Oct. 16, 1908, Gjirokastë r, Alb. died April 11, 1985, Tiranë Albanian leader, first Albanian communist chief of state (1944–85). A schoolteacher, he opposed the Albanian fascists in World War II and in 1941 helped found the Albanian… …
124Liebknecht, Karl — born Aug. 13, 1871, Leipzig, Ger. died Jan. 15, 1919, Berlin German socialist leader. Son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, he became a lawyer and a Marxist. In 1912 he entered the Reichstag and led the opposition to Germany s pre World War I policy. In… …
125South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
126Bush, Iraq, and the World — ▪ 2004 by Strobe Talbott From the moment that the first explosions lit up the night sky over Baghdad, this war was personal. Four huge bombs and about 40 cruise missiles slammed into a heavily fortified VIP compound near the Tigris River.… …
127Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich — ▪ 2009 Russian novelist and historian born Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia died Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse Lykovo, near Moscow, Russia was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, but he declined to go to Stockholm to receive the prize… …
128colonialism, Western — ▪ politics Introduction a political economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European… …
