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Rulers of Russia Since 1533

The Tsars and Emperors of All the Russias (and their successors) The oldest known royalty in Russia were the Rurik dynasty who ruled the Kievan Rus, a kingdom of Norse and Russian people centered on…

Suzdal

(Encyclopedia) SuzdalSuzdals&oomacr;zˈdəl [key], city, central European Russia, NE Moscow. Its major industry is tourism. Founded c.1024 as a fortress town, it developed from the 11th to 12th…

Podolsk

(Encyclopedia) PodolskPodolskpədôlˈyəsk [key], city (1989 pop. 209,000), central European Russia, on the Pakhra River, a tributary of the Moskva. The center of a fertile agricultural region, Podolsk…

Lenin Peak

(Encyclopedia) Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina Peak, formerly Kaufmann PeakKaufmann Peakkoufˈmən [key], 23,405 ft (7,134 m) high, on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Also known as Kuh-i-Gamo [warm…

Moreno, Lenín

(Encyclopedia) Moreno, Lenín (Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés), 1953–, Ecuadorian political leader, president of Ecuador (2017–). Moreno was a manager in the private sector for several years before…

Lenin Library

(Encyclopedia) Lenin Library: see Russian State Library.

Bolshevism and Menshevism

(Encyclopedia) Bolshevism and MenshevismBolshevism and Menshevismbōlˈshəvĭzəm, bŏlˈ–, mĕnˈshəvĭzəm [key], the two main branches of Russian socialism from 1903 until the consolidation of the Bolshevik…

Luxemburg, Rosa

(Encyclopedia) Luxemburg, RosaLuxemburg, Rosarōˈzä l&oobreve;kˈsəmb&oobreve;rk [key], 1871–1919, German revolutionary, b. Russian Poland. Her revolutionary activities forced her to flee to…

Nazor, Vladimir

(Encyclopedia) Nazor, VladimirNazor, Vladimirvlədyēˈmĭr näˈzôr [key], 1876–1949, Yugoslav poet and novelist, b. Croatia. Nazor's early career paralleled the emergence of the Young Croatian literary…

New Economic Policy

(Encyclopedia) New Economic Policy (NEP), official economic reconstruction program of the USSR from 1921 to 1928. It replaced the economic policies of “war Communism” (1918–21), an emergency program…