Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Estonian-born Aleksy, the first freely elected head of the Orthodox Church since the Bolshevik Revolution, may be a national leader long after Gorbachev leaves power...
...Mikhail Gorbachev thought he could limit the cracks in the union to the Baltic region, he has certainly been underestimating the Georgians. The 5.4 million people of this small Caucasian republic have never forgotten the brief period of independence they enjoyed between 1918 and 1921, when invading Bolshevik forces imposed Soviet rule. The Georgians contend that they were illegally forced into the union, in violation of a 1920 "noninterference" treaty with Moscow...
Czar Nicholas II and his family died in a Bolshevik fusillade in 1918, but their Crimean wine cellar and attendant vineyards lived on. In 1922 Stalin added to the former imperial wine collection by rounding up bottles from other czarist palaces. Last week many of those rare dessert wines finally fell into capitalist hands. On Sotheby's London auction floor, Western wine dealers ponied up $1,074,544 for 13,000 bottles of the Romanovs' best...
Other territories the new Bolshevik regime fought to retain. The Ukraine declared its independence in 1918, but the Red Army recaptured it the following year. Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia similarly declared their independence, then formed a Transcaucasian Federation that even won de facto ; recognition from the Western allies, but here too the Red Army soon marched in and took over. And so things remained until World War II, when Joseph Stalin began trying to re-create the empire of the Czars -- and more. By attacking the Finns in 1939, he seized a slice of southern Finland; by making a deal...
Lenin once referred to the vast, polyglot Russian Empire of the Czars as a "prison of nations." Most of those captive nations, set loose briefly by the Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War I, were reconquered by the Red Army and reforged into the modern Soviet Empire: 15 ethnically diverse republics spreading almost 7,000 miles from the Polish border to the Sea of Japan...