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15 hours ago · Then, months before the creation of the Soviet Union, the Chechen Autonomous Oblast of the Russian SFSR was established. It annexed a part of territory of the former Terek Cossack Host. Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia formed the Checheno–Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936.
15 hours ago · In 1922, it was one of four Soviet republics (with the Russian SFSR, the Byelorussian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR) that signed the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union. As a Soviet quasi-state , the Ukrainian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 [17] alongside the Byelorussian SSR , in spite of the fact that they were also legally represented by the Soviet ...
15 hours ago · Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War [b] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
- 7 November 1917-16 June 1923 [1] [2]
- Former Russian Empire
15 hours ago · foreign volunteers and conscripts. During World War II, the Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. In total some 500,000 non-Germans and ethnic Germans from outside Germany, mostly from German-occupied Europe, were recruited between 1940 and 1945. [1]
15 hours ago · Eastern Front Part of the European theatre of World War II Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
15 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
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15 hours ago · Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] [11] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [12] [13] and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty ...