History

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The period of the first Russian revolution 1905-1907 went down in history as a time of high intensity of the revolutionary struggle against the autocracy. Despite the concessions of the tsarist government, manifested in the establishment of parliament - the State Duma, the legalization of political parties, the flywheel of the revolutionary

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The tradition of using units recruited from the representatives of the indigenous population of the colonies to conduct hostilities was inherent in almost all European powers that had overseas territories. Colonial units were recruited along ethnic lines, but command them as

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By the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire had become a huge colonial state, which owned lands in almost all corners of the globe. The "pearl" of the British crown, as you know, was the Indian subcontinent. Located on it are Muslim, Hindu, Sikh

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The aggravation of the political situation in the Russian Empire in 1905, which followed the shooting of a peaceful workers' demonstration on January 9, marching to the imperial palace under the leadership of priest Georgy Gapon, also led to the activation of revolutionary organizations of various ideological

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France, which traditionally competed with Great Britain for colonial territories, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, no less actively than its main rival, used colonial troops and units recruited from foreign mercenaries to defend its interests. If in

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Unlike Great Britain, France and even Portugal, Italy has never been one of the states with numerous and extensive colonial possessions. Let's start with the fact that Italy became a unified state only in 1861, after a long struggle to unite the

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The era of the great geographical discoveries led to a centuries-old history of colonization of African, Asian, American, Oceanian territories by European powers. By the end of the 19th century, all of Oceania, almost all of Africa and a significant part of Asia were divided between several European

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Despite its small territorial size and small population, by the 1970s Portugal, ranked at that time as one of the most backward socio-economic countries in Europe, was the last colonial empire. It was the Portuguese who tried to the last

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yekaterinoslav (now - Dnepropetrovsk) became one of the centers of the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire. This was facilitated, first of all, by the fact that Yekaterinoslav was the largest industrial center of Little Russia, and took the fourth place in terms of population

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The defeat of the Yekaterinoslav working group of anarchist-communists as a result of the police repressions in 1906 did not lead to the end of the anarchist movement in Yekaterinoslav. By the beginning of the next year, 1907, the anarchists managed to recover from defeats and not only resume their activities, but

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Thirty-five years ago, on July 19, 1979, in Nicaragua, as a result of a revolutionary uprising, the pro-American dictatorship of General A. Somoza was swept away. Since then, this day has traditionally been celebrated in this small country as a public holiday. This is not surprising, since

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By the beginning of the twentieth century, Bialystok, the county town of the Grodno province, was the center of an entire industrial region, in which textile and leather production played the main role - from small semi-handicraft workshops to large manufactories. The city was inhabited by many thousands of Polish and Jewish

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World history knows many adventurers who proclaimed themselves to be spiritual mentors and teachers of mankind, who are heirs to royal thrones, and who are actually kings or emperors. In modern times, many of them were actively manifested in countries, as they would now say, “the third

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Liberia celebrates its Independence Day on 26 July. This small West African country is one of the most historically remarkable states of the continent. Strictly speaking, Independence Day is more likely the day of the creation of Liberia, since it is one of the few African countries that has managed to save

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Continuing the tale of the colonial troops of the European powers, one cannot but dwell in more detail on the units that were manned by France in its North African colonies. In addition to the well-known Algerian Zouaves, these are also Moroccan gumiers. The history of these military units is connected with the French

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the anti-state ideas of anarchists were most widespread in the western regions of the Russian Empire. This was due, firstly, to the territorial proximity to Europe, from where fashionable ideological trends penetrated, and secondly, to the presence in the western regions of the country

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Spain has been the largest colonial power in the world for several centuries. She almost completely owned South and Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, not to mention a number of possessions in Africa and Asia. However, over time, the weakening of Spain in economic and political

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The leaders of modern Ukrainian "nationalists" - Americanists, probably every second curse Russia as a state, and the Russian world as a civilizational community. But at the same time they like to talk about the territorial integrity of Ukraine and very tenaciously hold on to those lands that have historically been

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Since its inception, the Soviet Union has become a thorn in the eye for the Western powers, primarily for Great Britain and the United States, which saw in it a potential danger to their existence. At the same time, the American and British establishment was frightened not so much by the ideology of the Soviet state, although

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In the field of aeronautics, the Soviet state has achieved very great success. It is possible not to remind about the first flight into space, about the numerous military victories of Soviet military aviation in the Great Patriotic War, about the participation of Soviet military pilots in hostilities in almost all corners

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The Netherlands is one of the oldest European colonial powers. The rapid economic development of this small country, accompanied by the liberation from Spanish rule, contributed to the transformation of the Netherlands into a major maritime power. Since the 17th century, the Netherlands has become a serious

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Many German generals and senior officers who participated in the Second World War as part of the Wehrmacht and the SS troops survived the wartime safely and either did not incur any punishment, or escaped with insignificant terms of imprisonment. Some of them were fortunate enough to live almost

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Military history knows many interesting examples of airborne operations. Some of them can rightfully be called record: both in terms of the number of airborne personnel and the number of airborne military equipment

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To visit the capital of the defeated enemy and enjoy the triumph of the victor - what could be more pleasant for the supreme commander of an army that has won a four-year bloody war? But Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin never went to Berlin, although in Germany he was forced to visit

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Budenovka is the most original and interesting headdress in the history of the Russian armed forces of the twentieth century. Who among those whose childhood was spent in the USSR is not familiar with the Budenovka, which looks like the helmets of ancient Russian warriors, for the Red Army or for the march through Constantinople?

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During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact was considered the main military-political bloc uniting the socialist countries headed by the USSR. However, a number of socialist countries did not enter the OVD, and some left it later

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Traditionally, officers for the Russian Empire were supplied by the nobility. Only by the beginning of the twentieth century. the situation began to change, even generals “from the people” appeared - from the peasantry and those who are commonly called the “proletariat”. Although the generals of the Russian Imperial Army themselves did not at all like

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In 1990, Iraq attacked neighboring Kuwait. Almost immediately, Kuwait acquired an interesting ally - Czechoslovakia. The meeting of the American and Egyptian diplomats with the Czechoslovak military took place in Prague the day after the outbreak of the war

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The intervention against Soviet Russia involved not only such powers as Great Britain, France or the United States, but also countries of "lower rank." For example, Greece in 1918-1919. undertook her campaign to southern Russia (the so-called Ukrainian campaign). From the decision to intervene to the landing in Odessa

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The village of Ivanovka, Amur Region “When people burned in the barn, the roof rose from the screams,” the surviving residents of Ivanovka told about that terrible tragedy. On March 22, 1919, the Japanese invaders burned alive more than 200 people, including children, women, the elderly … "Krasnoe" village Now Ivanovka

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Every year on November 7, Russia celebrates a memorable date - the Day of the October Revolution of 1917. Until 1991, November 7 was the main holiday of the USSR and was called the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Throughout the existence of the Soviet Union (celebrated since 1918), November 7 was

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More than a century after the dramatic events that unfolded at the beginning of the twentieth century in South-West Africa, the German authorities expressed their readiness to apologize to the people of Namibia and recognize the actions of the colonial administration of German South-West Africa as genocide of the local peoples of Herero and Nama

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On August 5, 1966, exactly fifty years ago, Mao Zedong put forward his famous slogan "Fire at the headquarters" (Chinese paoda sylinbu), which actually marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China. Dazibao, written personally by Chairman Mao, was announced during the 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist

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The commander of the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment, Major General Georgy Aleksandrovich Min, was named in history textbooks among the main punishers of revolutionary Moscow in 1905. Today, rethinking the past, we have the right to ask the question: who - the savior of the Fatherland or the murderer was this

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On September 30, 1938, the famous Munich Agreement was signed, better known in Russian historical literature as the "Munich Agreement". In fact, it was this agreement that was the first step towards the outbreak of World War II. Prime Ministers of Great Britain Neville Chamberlain and France

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Greece entered World War II on October 28, 1940. On this day, a massive invasion of the Italian army began on the territory of Greece. By the time of the events in question, Italy had already managed to occupy Albania, so Italian troops attacked Greece from Albanian territory

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Translated from Sanskrit, the name Sri Lanka means a glorious, blessed land. But the history of this South Asian island is by no means replete with examples of calm and serenity. As early as the 16th century, the gradual European colonization of the island of Ceylon began. At first, the Portuguese mastered it

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In the post-Soviet period, many mass media periodically began to refer to the rather well-known and controversial topic of the introduction of the death penalty for minors in the “Stalinist” Soviet Union. As a rule, this circumstance was cited as another argument for the criticism of I.V

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By the beginning of the twentieth century, Japan, the only Asian country, had turned into a strong imperialist power, capable of competing for spheres of influence with large European states. The rapid development of the economy was facilitated by the expansion of contacts that were previously almost closed for

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The political history of Albania, in comparison with most other European countries, remains one of the least studied and poorly known to the domestic audience. Only the era of the reign of Enver Hoxha is sufficiently well covered in Soviet and Russian literature, i.e. postwar history