History 2024, November

From the very beginning of its activity, Direct Action has sought to orient itself towards the struggle of the working class. Among the fighters of the organization was its own worker activist - Georges Cipriani (pictured). He was born in 1950, worked as a mechanic at Renault factories, then lived in Germany for about ten years, and after returning from

In 1985, Alan Garcia, a representative of the aprist party, became the new president of Peru. In general, he continued the pro-American policy in the economy, and in the field of national security he tried to neutralize the activities of the

The many political and social problems facing modern Indian society resonate with the activities of radical nationalist organizations. Most of them adhere to the concept of "hindutva", i.e. "Hindu", suggesting that India is a country

Exactly one hundred years ago, an event took place that opened one of the most interesting and controversial pages in the history of the Civil War in Russia. On April 6, 1917, a 28-year-old young man arrived in the village of Gulyaypole in the Aleksandrovsky district of the Yekaterinoslav province. He returned to his native place, where

25 years ago, on April 5, 1992, a new state appeared on the map of Europe. Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from Yugoslavia. Today it is a small country with big political and socio-economic problems, and then, 25 years ago, soon after the proclamation of political sovereignty for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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