Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian masses and sought to fire ... In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin to ...

The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia, extended across Eurasia from 1721 (succeeding the Tsardom of Russia) until ...

Nicholas II ascended to the throne after his fatherÍs death on October 20, 1894. The Russian Empire at the turn of the century was huge. The United States could be dropped into it and still leave ...

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim ...

ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire Late March 1918 - October 1922 The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

This is the first synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. It covers major writers including Pushkin, Tolstoy and Lermontov, but ...

Why was that? Bell: The year is really important. Censorship of literature in the Russian Empire was always pretty strict, but 1848 was a year when lots of revolutions and revolts broke out in Europe.

By Marc Santora Western officials are investigating whether devices planted at shipping hubs in Europe may have been a test run by Russian operatives for placing them on planes bound for the U.S ...

Russian opposition leaders often present themselves as champions of freedom and democracy, and are often embraced as such by ...

A Russian man has been rescued after 67 days adrift on a small boat in the bitterly cold Sea of Okhotsk, Russian authorities said Tuesday. The man’s brother and his teenage son died in the ...

Despite this, Russian traders often bypass these restrictions using VPN services. How Did FX Empire Select The Best Brokers In Russia? To identify the best brokers in Russia, we used the FX Empire ...