Ukraine after the War – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Aside from the insurgency in the western borderland, Soviet authorities faced the huge task of restoring Soviet order and the economy in Ukraine after the war. The task was made even more difficult by the imposition of a delivery quota of 7.2 million tons of grain for 1946.
The Gift of Crimea – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Was it, as was described at the time and for decades thereafter, a “gift” to Ukraine? If so, what motivated such generosity? After all, Crimea, the rugged peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, had not become territorially contiguous with Ukraine all of a sudden.
Intensification of the Red Terror - Seventeen Moments in Soviet …
The murder of Volodarskii, the murder of Uritskii, the attempt to murder and the wounding of the President of the Council of People’s Commissars, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin, the mass shooting of tens of thousands of our comrades in Finland, in Ukraine and, finally on the Don, and in Czechoslavia [sic] the constant discovery of plots in the rear ...
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence - Seventeen Moments in …
Our Ukrainian People’s State must be cleared of the violent intruders sent from Petrograd, who trample the rights of the Ukrainian Republic. The inestimably difficult war, begun by the bourgeois government, has greatly wearied our People; it has already …
Beria Report on the Guerillas - Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Report on the battle with guerillas in the Ukraine During the duration of operations to liquidate UPA bands from February 1944 to August 1, 1945 a total of 94,196 bandits were killed and 98,848 were captured. 85,833 bandits and draft evaders gave themselves up.
Succession to Stalin – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Each of them had fallen into disfavor with Stalin at one time or another since the end of the Second World War. Now they were faced with the awesome task of leading the country in his absence. In the weeks that followed, Beria emerged as the one who was most anxious to depart from previous policies.
The Famine Years – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Fedor Abramov, Two Winters and Three Summers. 1968 . Having winnowed the grain with a wooden shovel, Il’ia raked it into a pile and swept around with a twig broom, picked every little grain out of the cracks between the floor boards, and then took a large birch basket from the wall.
Pavlik Morozov – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
The bodies of Pavlik and his younger brother were found in a forest a few months after the arrest of their father. Whether their relatives had murdered them remains unclear. Finally, Pavlik was not and had never been a Pioneer.
Zhdanov on the International Situation – Seventeen Moments in …
Speaking at the founding conference of the Cominform, Zhdanov recast the Communist view of World War II and represented the current world situation as a bitter contest between the “socialist camp” and “American imperialism.” I. The Postwar World Situation. The end of the Second World War brought with it big changes in the world situation.
Lenin’s Succession – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Women in War Films; 1947. Cars for Comrades; Cold War; Cominform and the Soviet Bloc; Eight-Hundred Years of Moscow; End of Rationing; Estonia Sings; Famine of 1946-1947; The New Curriculum; Triumph of T. D. Lysenko; Ukraine after the War; Veterans Return; Xenophobia; Year of Laktionov; Zhdanov; 1954. The Gift of Crimea; Hydrogen Bomb ...