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Ads by Google      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lithuania Thereafter, Lithuania shared the fate of Poland, although in 1648 one section of the Lithuanians of Little Russia — the Ukraine &; separated from Poland and, in 1654, made their submission to the Tsar of Russia. Gedymin succeeded in extending his kingdom to the east by successful battles with the Tatars, who had then made themselves masters of Russia. As Christian was coadjutor Bishop of Mainz as early as 1259, he cannot have long occupied the See of Lithuania; his successor, John, also a member of the Teutonic Order, also appears as coadjutor Bishop of Constance. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09292a.htm   (1828 words)      Look-4-it: HISTORY Ethnic History of Russia Pre-revolutionary Times to the Present; Mastyugina, Tatiana (Researcher, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia);Perepelkin, Lev (Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studi Academic Politics and the History of Criminal Justice Education; Morn, Frank (Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, USA) History of Soviet Russia Carr, Edward Hallett (sometime Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge);Davies, R. History of the United Nations : Vol 1. History and Literature in Contemporary Russia Marsh, Rosalind (Professor of Russian Studies and Director of the Women's Studies Centre, University of Bath) http://book.look-4-it.com/History   (13668 words)      Meier, Black Earth, Russia, Russian Modern History In vast areas of Russia outside Moscow and St. Petersburg, the lack of a politically and legally empowered civil society also means that there is no high culture, no concern with history, no concern with the building or maintaining of infrastructure or preservation of the environment. Dmitri Sergeyevich Likhachev, Russia's most prominent historian, born in 1906, he had seen it all and experienced it all, including four years in a northern prison camp, the siege of Leningrad, and the whole sorry period of Soviet history. Russia was an accepted participant in world affairs, and recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce as a free market economy. http://www.futurecasts.com/Book%20review%205-9.htm   (7963 words)      A timeline of Poland and Lithuania : at the Congress of Vienna the Duchy of Warszaw is partitioned among Russia, Austria and Prussia and the Russian tsar Alexander I grants semi-autonomy to the "Congress Kingdom" of Poland : the anti-Russian movement "Confederation of Bar" is crushed by Russia that partitions one fourth of Poland with Prussia and Austria (Galicia, Krakow) : Katerina of Russia invades Poland, abrogates the constitution and partitions half of Poland between Russia and Prussia http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/polish.html   (7963 words)      Soviet-Empire.com :: View topic - Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union Our second example, that of the counter-revolutionaries convicted in the 1936-38 trials which followed the purges of party, army and state apparatus, has its roots in the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia. The history of the millions of people who were allegedly incarcerated and died in the labour camps of the Soviet Union and as a result of starvation during Stalin's time. Soviet society was forced to make great efforts in the decade from 1930-1940, when the major part of its resources was dedicated to its defence preparations for the forthcoming war against the Nazis. http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=28616   (7963 words)      Encyclopedia: Politics of Russia Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... Because Russia's new constitution remained in dispute in the Federal Assembly at the time of ratification, the Federation Treaty and provisions based on the treaty were incorporated as amendments to the 1978 constitution. The 1993 constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Politics-of-Russia   (13062 words)      Soviet history, Soviet Union history, history of the Soviet Union, history of Soviet Union, history Soviet Union on RussiansAbroad.com Despite Gorbachev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president in June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote. Russia was the largest of the union republics in terms of territory and population. The Soviet Union formally came into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union republics--Belorussia (now Belarus), Ukraine, and what was then the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (an entity including Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). http://www.russiansabroad.com/russian_history_251.html   (1792 words)      LLRX.com - A Guide to Russian Legal Research The new Constitution of the Russian Federation became the most democratic and perfect Constitution in history of Russia. The history of the commercial and arbitration courts in Russia. The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Soviet Federatzji (http://www.council.gov.ru/) - the upper chamber of the Russian parliament is formed by two representatives of each sub unit of the federation- one from the legislative and one from the executive branch and it consists of 178 members from 89 regions. http://www.llrx.com/features/russia.htm   (10122 words)      World Wide Web Virtual Library - Russian History Index - Chronological Chronology/Timeline of Russian history is the chronological part of the homepage of Douglas Hartman (Russian History) who has made a good gateway for Russian history aiming to provide the general reader with stimulating articles on all recorded years of Russian history, beginning from Kievan Rus' to Yeltsin's era in the 1990s. The site is divided in 3 sections: General History of Russia from the ancient times to the mid-90th of XX century, (electronic version of lectures by academician B.V. Lichman (University of Ekaterinburg), The History of the Railway Transport in Russia and The Histoty of the Economic Thought in Russia. History & Culture of Russia: This site, set up by the Russian National Tourist Office, focuses on Ancient Russia, the Mongols & the emergence of Moscow (Ivan the Terrible), the Romanovs (Catherine & Peter the Great), Napolean's invasion, the road to Revolution (Nicholas II), and the Soviet Era (Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev & Gorbachev). http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/chronological.html   (1328 words)      History of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The history of Russia between 1922 and 1991 is essentially the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union. Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based empire which was roughly coterminous with the Russian Empire, whose last monarch, Tsar Nicholas II, ruled until 1917. After Russia and its allies defeated Napoleon, Alexander became known as the 'savior of Europe,' and he played a prominent role in the redrawing of the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia   (10588 words)      Federation Council of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The modern history of the Federation Council begins during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis that pitted President Boris Yeltsin’s unpopular neoliberal and governmental structure reforms against the increasingly radical Congress of People’s Deputies, then the nation’s legislature. The Council’s first elections occurred on December 12, 1993 running simultaneously with State Duma elections and a referendum on the new Constitution of the Russian Federation. Unlike the State Duma and the provincial legislatures throughout Russia, the Council is not directly elected, but instead chosen by territorial politicians, resembling in some respects to the structure of the U.S. Senate prior to the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Council_of_Russia   (2153 words)      History of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Emperor's daughter, Marie Louise, was married to Napoleon, and Austria contributed an army to Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. On October 20, 1920, a plebiscite in the Austrian state of Carinthia was held in which the population chose to remain a part of Austria, rejecting the territorial claims of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the state. However, with the death of his son Frederick II in 1246, the line went extinct, which resulted in the interregnum, a period of several decades during which the status of the country was disputed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Austria   (6019 words)      WHKMLA : History of Lithuania, 1914-1918 Geographically, the District of Lithuania, under German military occupation, included the Russian Gouvernement of Kowno (Kaunas) and the western parts of the Government of Wilna (Vilnius), with the circles of Vilnius, Troki and with parts of Swenzjany. This page is part of World History at KMLA A constitution was drafted, Duke Wilhelm von Urach elected King of Lithuania (July 9th 1918). http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/eceurope/lithuaniawwi.html   (424 words)      Timeline of Russian history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia July 1918: Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets; ratifies first Soviet constitution It was an arguable catalyst for the Russian Revolution of 1905. February 8, 1904 - September 5, 1905: Russo-Japanese War - Originating in a desire to distract from Russia’s internal troubles, decline in Western Russia, and the need for a complete ice-free port, the war on the side of Russia is sobering in terms of its military incompetence on behalf of its commanders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_history   (5606 words)      CV2004.doc KEYNOTE ADDRESSES “Gosudarstvennye prestupleniia v Rossii kontsa 19–nachala 20 vv.,” International Conference on “The History of Law and the State” in Samara, Russia, 14-15 May 2001. “The Security Law of 14 August 1881 in Late Imperial Russia,” invited paper Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, May 20, 1996, and at the Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, May 21, 1996. ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES “Beletskii, Stepan Petrovich”; “Benckendorff, Aleksandr Khistoforovich, Count”; “Burtsev, Vladimir LÂ’vovich”; “Capital punishment in russia and the Soviet Union,” “Department of Police of the Russian Empire”; “DrentelÂ’n, Aleksandr Romanovich”; in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. http://tigger.uic.edu/~daly/homepage/CV2004.doc   (5606 words)      CDI Russia Weekly 22 December 1999 He was the first Russian president to be democratically elected in a thousand years of history, then re-elected, and now appears on the way to putting his hand-picked successor in office.... For the first time in the history of contemporary parliamentarism in Russia, there is a chance to form a pro-government majority in the Duma, thereby creating an essentially new political reality. EUROPE RUSSIA: "Multipolar Duma" Official government Rossiyskaya Gazeta editorialized on page one (12/21): "One of the surprises of these elections is that the Duma, bipolar between 1995 and 1999, may become multipolar. http://www.cdi.org/russia/dec2299.html   (5857 words)      Sweden Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography During the Viking Age of the 9th and 10th century, Swedish vikings travelled mainly east, to the Baltic countries, Russia and the Black Sea, and via the lakes of Russia, down to southern Europe. The Constitution of Sweden can be altered by the Riksdag, which requires a supermajority and confirmation after the following general elections. It consisted of four chambers, made up by representatives from the 4 categories peasants, nobility, clerics and townsmen, until 1866 when Sweden became a Constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament. http://popularityguide.com/encyclopedia/Sweden   (4278 words)      CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Russia's new sovereignty led to soul searching reminiscent of the one in the first half of the 19th century, generating a discussion of Russia's place in the world history and politics. To a great degree, this discussion was caused by pragmatic reasons -- Russia had to formulate her policy toward the newly independent states (NIS), the majority of which form together with her a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Russia, who was engaged both by her ‘thrust to the West' and by complexities of the transitional period to democracy, agreed to but initially displayed little interest in instituting the CIS in a way other than a loose union. http://www.ca-c.org/dataeng/GRETSKY.shtml   (14238 words)      KGB Resurrection To overcome the negative influence of much of its history and the problems presented by demographics and oil, Russia will need leadership as bold and as willing to break with the past as that which was provided, e.g., to Turkey in the aftermath of WW I by Kemal Attaturk. Russia’s first freely elected president, Boris Yeltsin, who made history by dissolving the Soviet Union, began his rule in the Kremlin by building up his own political police, not his own political party. Until Lenin came along, Russia had never had a significant political party anyway. http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1128879/posts?page=9#9   (14238 words)      hi History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union History of the United States National Security Council 1961-1963 History of the United States National Security Council 1969-1974 http://www.wikicity.com/wikipedia/h/hi   (317 words)      Lithuania History By the end of the 18th century, Lithuania had been subsumed into Russia. When prince of Lithuania married a Polish princess in 1386, the Lithuanian was made King of Poland on the condition that his country accept Christianity. At the dawn of the second World War, the Soviets invaded Lithuania and shortly thereafter a Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. http://www.multied.com/nationbynation/Lithuania/History1.html   (214 words)      ROMANII - History of Romania The universal franchise was granted; the most important agrarian reform in the history of the country was achieved (6.000.000 ha distributed); the new Constitution was adopted in the year 1923, whose elaboration had been imposed by the evolution and the development of the country. Romania contributed to the defense of Europe from the Bolshevik danger in 1919, its army protecting the frontier of Dniester and vanquishing afterwards Bela Kun’s regime from Hungary. Romania initially adopted a neutral position, but, due to the fact that the Ottoman government concerning the possibility of reaching a solution by means of an agreement on the independence issue, Romania started negotiations with Russia. http://www.romanii.ro/english/history_of_romania.htm   (11667 words)      Lithuania on Encyclopedia.com Lithuania borders on the Baltic Sea in the west, Latvia in the north, Belarus in the east and southeast, Poland in the south, and the Kaliningrad oblast (a Russian exclave; formerly East Prussia) in the southwest. Lithuania became one of the largest states of medieval Europe, including all of what is now Belarus, a large part of Ukraine, and sections of European Russia; at its furthest extent it touched the Black Sea. Privatization and Democratization in Lithuania: A Case Study of Who Benefits in Siauliai. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/lithuania_history.asp   (1919 words)      Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Latvia has no territorial claims towards Russia, but demands an acknowledgement from Russia of the annexation of the small part of the Abrene region, since this land was previously part of Latvia and was detached from it by the Soviet Union. In 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a resolution on the "Occupation of the Baltic States," in which it declared that the occupation was "not in accoradnce with law," and not the "will of the Soviet people". Latvia's population has been multiethnic for centuries, though the demographics shifted dramatically in the 20th century due to the world wars, the repatriation of the Baltic Germans, the Holocaust, and the Soviet occupation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia   (3342 words)      European Friends The treaty of ripen (1460) does not allow a separation of the two duchies, therefore The Federation of German counties instruct Preussen to fight a campaign against Denmark but Russia, England and France call for a truce. 1773 : Due to a treaty of exchange with Russia (Katharina the Great, 1762-1796) both duchies Schleswig and Holstein are united under the Danish king Christian VIL The Germans united in the “Federation of Germans in northern Schleswig” and confess to the loyalty towards Denmark and the principle of the democrats. http://www.mayk.edu.hel.fi/comenius/sivu22.html   (3342 words)      kgb russia Early Russian East Slavs Kievan Rus' Khazaria Muscovy Mongol invasion of Russia Imperial Russia Russian Revolution Russian Civil War History of the... AIDS History in Russia - Discusses AIDS cases, education, and prevention programs during... As of 2003, Khodorkovsky is the wealthiest man in Russia, and the 26th wealthiest man in the world... http://www.russiaresources.com/russia/kgb+russia   (1104 words)      transcendentalism on Encyclopedia.com Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History.(Brief Article) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t1/trnscdntl1.asp   (1104 words)      HistoryWiz: Russia Images From Russian History - The collection of pictures was compiled in 1908-1913 for an edition of "Pictures of Russian History" published by I.N. Knebel (1854-1926) in Moscow. Illustrated History of Russia and the USSR pictures pertaining to Russian historical heritage and photos witnessing recent events in Russia Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia This exhibit is an online version of an original exhibit that has toured Russia since 1995 - a wonderful resource on Judaism in Russian history http://www.historywiz.com/russia.htm   (580 words)      Russia Illustrated history of Russia and the Former USSR History and Culture of Russia / The Romanovs Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia http://www.teacheroz.com/russia.htm   (1129 words)

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