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The initial five-year plans aimed to achieve rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry. The first five-year plan, accepted in 1928 for the period from 1929 to 1933, finished one year early. The last five-year plan, for the period from 1991 to 1995, was not completed, since the Soviet Union was ...
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war. The Russian Revolution can also be seen as the precursor for the other European revolutions that ...
Wagner Group rebellion. Part of the Wagner Group–MoD conflict during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Map of the Wagner Group's advances into Rostov-on-Don and towards Moscow after emerging from Russian-occupied Ukraine. Date. 23–24 June 2023 (2023-06-23– 2023-06-24) (1 day) Location. Russia.
Propaganda stand dedicated to the first five-year plan in Moscow. 1931 colour photo by Branson DeCou.. The first five-year plan (Russian: I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country.
The February Revolution ( Russian: Февральская революция ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution[ note 1] and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup[ 3][ 4][ a] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took ...
The October Revolution, [a] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [b] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [5] [6] Bolshevik coup, [6] or Bolshevik revolution, [7] [8] was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the ...
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [ c] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [ d] began on 22 January 1905. A wave of mass political and social unrest then began to spread across the vast areas of the Russian Empire. The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, and the ruling class. It included worker strikes, peasant ...
July 30, 2023 at 5:37 AM MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin reviewed a parade of warships and nuclear submarines in his native St Petersburg on Sunday and announced that the Russian Navy ...