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Why did Peter the Great execute his own son, Tsarevich Alexei?
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In June 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, the eldest son and heir apparent of Tsar Peter I of Russia, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg after receiving forty lashes of the knout, a metal-reinforced whip capable of breaking a man’s spine...
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The tragic end of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
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In the early hours of 17 July 1918, Bolshevik guards executed Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra, their five children, and four loyal attendants, in the basement of a merchant’s house in Ekaterinburg. The massacre occurred during the chaos of civil war and revolution, and the Soviet government kept the details hidden for decades...
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The role of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Cold War control
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On the night of 20 August 1968, around half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers crossed into Czechoslovakia and crushed the reform movement which was known as the Prague Spring. In the weeks that followed, Soviet officials needed a public justification for what looked, to most of the world, like an invasion of an ally...
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Rise and fall of the Soviet Union: Lessons learned
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Throughout the twentieth century, the Soviet Union was one of the most important and controversial forces in global history. From its revolutionary birth out of the ruins of the Russian Empire to its sudden collapse in 1991, the USSR influenced international politics and economics, along with involvement in major wars for nearly seven decades...
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Did the United States provoke the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?
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On 24 December 1979, Soviet airborne troops landed at Kabul airport and seized the Afghan capital within 48 hours, killing President Hafizullah Amin inside the Tajbeg Palace. At first glance, the operation looked like a straightforward act of Cold War aggression by Leonid Brezhnev's Politburo...
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The extraordinary 18,000-mile voyage of Russia’s Baltic Fleet in 1904
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In October 1904, Tsar Nicholas II ordered a fleet of warships to sail from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of roughly 18,000 nautical miles, in one of the most ambitious and ill-fated naval expeditions in modern history. Under the command of Rear Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, the Second Pacific Squadron left the ports of Reval and Libau with orders to relieve the besieged Russian naval base at Port Arthur...

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