... , without success, to abolish Tsarist rule by refusing the oath of allegiance to a new Tsar, Nicholas I, and forcing him to abdicate. "The Decembrist conspirators were of liberal inclinations, and their background was Russian freemasonry and the Russian army."[4] That revolt can be seen as he first sign of the major revolution to follow and that is why it is important despite ... . Gradually, subconsciously, I was approaching an irrevocable step--a wide-ranging public statement on war and peace and other global issues."[10] In 1968 Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov took his major step of histo...

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... states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it is still hard to decide what should be considered the exact beginning of the Cold ... world, and possibly could be blamed for the beginning of the Cold War. However, in my view, it is important to go back in time and have a look at the historical background of that issue. The Bolsheviks s...

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... to maintain control at all costs. His inner circle was shaken up: Lavrenti Beria remained in power as head of the secret police, but Molotov began to fade into the background, and Georgi Malenkov, who had enjoyed Stalin's trust since the beginning of the war, was replaced by Andrei Hanoi, who led a renewed ideological offensive. Soldiers who had seen too much ... , Moscow supported Communist forces in the Greek Civil War, pressed Turkey to give up control of the Bosphorus, backed Communist parties in Italy and France, supported Communist insurrection in Indochina (Vietnam), and backed a ...

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