tsarist regime
71Shushanik Kurghinian — ( hy. Շուշանիկ Կուրղինյան ) (August 18, 1876 – November 24, 1927) was an Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She gave voice to the voiceless and saw her role as a poet as profoundly political …
72Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky While the contributions of the Russian nationalistic group The Five were important in their own right in developing an independent Russian voice and consciousness in classical music, the compositions of Pyotr Ilyich… …
73Non-English press of the Socialist Party of America — Logo of the Socialist Party of America, established August 1901. For a number of decades after its establishment in August 1901, the Socialist Party of America produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in an array different… …
74Russo–Japanese War — (1904–1905) What started as a “glorious little war” to win support for the tsarist regime ended in catastrophic defeat that almost spelled the end of the House of Romanov. The Russian military intelligence service and the Okhrana were poorly… …
75World War I — On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the crowns of Austria–Hungary, and his wife were killed on a visit to Sarajevo. The Balkan city was the capital of Bosnia, a province technically still part of the Ottoman Empire …
76communism — /kom yeuh niz euhm/, n. 1. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. 2. (often cap.) a system of social organization in… …
77Marxist–Leninist atheism — Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end state. It was interpreted in this fashion by Vladimir Lenin and the Governments of the Soviet Union until… …
78Collectivization in the Soviet Union — was a policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms (Russian: колхоз, kolkhoz, plural kolkhozy). The Soviet leadership was confident that the… …
79Ruling class — The term ruling class refers to the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society s political policy. The ruling class is a particular sector of the upper class that adheres to quite specific circumstances: it has both… …
80Marxism — Part of a series on Marxism …
