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Timeline: Russian Culture, Part II

Part II: Peter's Revolution and Aftermath     1703 1712 1714 1715 1726 1735 1736 1755 Next: The Golden Age       1703 Peter I (the Great)…

Timeline: Russian Culture, Part III

Part III: The Golden Age       1756 1801 1852 1900 Next: Soviet Period       1756 Czarina Elizabeth allies Russia with France; cult of French…

Timeline: Russian Culture, Part IV

Part IV: The Soviet Period       1920 1935 1958 1974 2000 Back: Rise of Russia       1918 Greatest Russian symbolist poet, Aleksandr Blok, writes…

Russian Government Changes, 1991–2008

by Ben Snowden Boris Yeltsin's sudden sacking of prime minister Sergei Stepashin on August 9, 1999, was part of a long series of reorganizations within the Russian government. After his…

Timeline: Modern Fashion, 1970-1990s

Part III: 1970-199 by David Johnson 1970 1974 1979 1980s 1984 1990s Part I: 1858-1920 1970 Known as Halston, Roy Halston Frowick dominates 1970s with pantsuits, sweater sets, form-…

Defining Genocide

  by Borgna Brunner     genocide: from the Greek genos, meaning race; and the Latin suffix -cidium, meaning killing Related Links Encyclopedia:GenocideHolocaust…

Fall of the Hindenburg

The fiery explosion on May 6, 1937 by Michael Morrison Related Links Great Disasters: Aircraft CrashesNavy Lakehurst Web Site: Description of the CrashHindenburg Explosion NewscastVideo Clip…

Holocaust Reparations

Looted gold makes its way across half a century to compensate slave laborers by Tasha Vincent This article was posted on March 15, 1999. Holocaust survivor Estelle Sapir displays a photo of…

Factsheet: Indonesia's Election

June 7th, 1999 by Borgna Brunner This article was posted on June 4, 1999. On the eve of Indonesia's first free parliamentary election since 1955, 48 political parties are jockeying for position…