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Russia & The Former Soviet Union. St. Basil’s, Russian Orthodox Church, built in 1555 by Ivan the Terrible. Ivan, The Terrible, born 1533. Cossack & Tatar. The Siberian High. People per. Catherine II, The Great, 1782.
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St. Basil’s, Russian Orthodox Church, built in 1555 by Ivan the Terrible
“We’ll give above the plan!”(we’ll cut more trees than the plan calls for.)
Nicholas II, 1898the last TsarInaugurated the Trans-Siberian RR, longest in the world.
Karl Marx 1818-1883German philosopher & economist, author of The Communist Manifesto andDas Kapital
After Stalin’s death in 1953, the Russians made new overtures to the Chinese, but the Sino-Soviet split soon occurred as Mao perceived Khrushchev to be an appeaser to the West.
Fake? We will bury you! Nikita Khrushchev at the UN, 1960. Real?
Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost openness Perestroika restructuring