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  • Prominent Russians: Nikita Khrushchev.

    Prominent Russians: Nikita Khrushchev.
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Nikita Khrushchev.Nikita Khrushchev was born in 1894 as the son of a coal-miner, in Kalinovka, a village near Russia’s border with Ukraine. He started working at an early age, first as a shepherd, and then at factories and coal mines in Eastern Ukraine. Even before the October Revolution, Khrushchev had become active in workers’ organisations and joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918, serving in the Red Army during the Civil War.....
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    7 min
  • Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #5

    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #5
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #5.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. His introduction of the command principle and five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses of immense proportions. The scale of repressions astounds and petrifies, though some believe it was a necessary and inevitable measure under the circumstances. Although an ethnic Georgian himself, he launched massive campaigns on the deportation and eradication of many ethnic groups from the Soviet territory. So great was his influence on the people that it eventually grew into a cult of personality, denounced after his death by Nikita Khrushchev, who initiated the so-called “de-Stalinization.”
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    6 min
  • Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #4

    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #4
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #4.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. His introduction of the command principle and five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses of immense proportions. The scale of repressions astounds and petrifies, though some believe it was a necessary and inevitable measure under the circumstances. Although an ethnic Georgian himself, he launched massive campaigns on the deportation and eradication of many ethnic groups from the Soviet territory.
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    7 min
  • Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #3

    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #3
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #3.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. His introduction of the command principle and five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses of immense proportions. The scale of repressions astounds and petrifies, though some believe it was a necessary and inevitable measure under the circumstances. Although an ethnic Georgian himself, he launched massive campaigns on the deportation and eradication of many ethnic groups from the Soviet territory. ....
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    5 min
  • Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #2

    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #2
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #2.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. His introduction of the command principle and five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses of immense proportions. The scale of repressions astounds and petrifies, though some believe it was a necessary and inevitable measure under the circumstances....
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    8 min
  • Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #1

    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #1
    Jul 14 2025
    Prominent Russians: Joseph Stalin #1.
    Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953. One of the most controversial and enigmatic figures in Russian history, he is still the subject of fierce discussions and assessments. His introduction of the command principle and five-year plans aimed at boosting the country’s economy condemned the country to human losses of immense proportions. The scale of repressions astounds and petrifies, though some believe it was a necessary and inevitable measure under the circumstances....
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    9 min
  • Prominent Russians: Leo Tolstoy.

    Prominent Russians: Leo Tolstoy.
    Jul 13 2025
    Prominent Russians: Leo Tolstoy.
    A Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy is widely seen as one of the greatest European novelists of all time. His masterpieces “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” have been read by millions around the world and continue to inspire filmmakers at home and abroad.
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    6 min
  • Prominent Russians: Anton Chekhov.

    Prominent Russians: Anton Chekhov.
    Jul 13 2025
    Prominent Russians: Anton Chekhov.The most insightful and époque-making dramatist Russia has produced, Anton Chekhov left, aside from many notable short stories, a few dramas that strike with their originality and subtlety. Chekhov combined realistic approach with philosophic observation and a strong sense of humanity. At least four of his plays, “The Sea Gull,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “Uncle Vanya” and “Three Sisters” have become famous worldwide, mostly through their interpretation by the Moscow Art Theater.
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    7 min