... Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, however. On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Soviet calendar), the Bolsheviks seized power in a relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new ... ...

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... 's headquarters. They're acts were later linked to a White House sponsored plan of espionage against Nixon's political opponents. About a year later in 1973 the testimony of the White House aide Alexander Butterfield uncovered the entire investigation. On national television Butterfield told the world that Nixon had ordered a video recording system to be installed in the White House to record all conversations ... ...

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... Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, appointed Harvard Law School professor Archibald Cox, to conduct a full-scale investigation of the Watergate scandal. The case was blown wide open when White House aid Alexander Butterfield announced on national television that Nixon installed a telephone system in the White House that would automatically record any conversation. Cox immediately subpoenaed eight relevant tapes to confirm Dean's testimony ... ...

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... Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, however. On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Soviet calendar), the Bolsheviks seized power in a relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new ... ...

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... meant colossal destruction of each other and everyone else on Earth. Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western ... ...

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... this matter. The Watergate investigation eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities in the Nixon Administration. For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and they weren't noticed until 1972. Alexander Butterfield, a former White House official, testified in July 1973 that Nixon had taped conversations in his office. Prosecutor Cox subpoenaed tapes relevant to the investigation. Nixon refused to release them ... ...

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