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Levon Mirzoyan
Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan (; ) (14 November 1897 – 26 February 1939) was the List of heads of state of Azerbaijan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920), Communist Party of the Azerbaijan from 21 January 1926 to 5 August 1929 and the List of leaders of Kazakhstan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union), Communist Party of Kazakhstan from 1933 to May 1938. He succeeded Filipp Goloshchyokin, Filipp Goloshschyokin as leader during the Soviet-imposed Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, Kazakh Famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, Goloshchyokin Genocide, in which at least 1.3 million ethnic Kazakhs died, an estimated 38 to 42 percent of all Kazakhs: the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. Historians have mixed evaluations of his term, both as a perpetrator of brutal policies against starving Kazakhs and the man who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirzoyan
Mirzoyan (), is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Mirzayan (born 1945), Russian singer-songwriter *Alexander Mirzoyan (born 1951), Soviet association football player *Arakel Mirzoyan (born 1989), Armenian weightlifter *Ararat Mirzoyan (born 1979), Armenian politician and Armenian First Deputy Prime Minister since May 2018 *Arayik Mirzoyan (born 1987), Armenian weightlifter *Arsen Mirzoyan (born 1978), Ukrainian singer *Edvard Mirzoyan (1921–2012), Armenian composer *Karen Mirzoyan, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012–2017) of the Artsakh Republic *Levon Mirzoyan (1897–1939), Soviet statesman *Oksen Mirzoyan (born 1961), Soviet weightlifter *Pharaon Mirzoyan (born 1949), Armenian painter See also *Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization, an Armenian-American organized crime group, mastermind of the 2010 Medicaid fraud in the United States {{Surname Armenian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the fourth Premier of the Soviet Union, premier from 1941 until his death. He initially governed as part of a Collective leadership in the Soviet Union, collective leadership, but Joseph Stalin's rise to power, consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, while the totalitarian political system he created is known as Stalinism. Born into a poor Georgian family in Gori, Georgia, Gori, Russian Empire, Stalin attended the Tiflis Theological Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He raised f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Purge
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected party dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, especially those aligned with the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik party. The term "great purge" was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book ''The Great Terror (book), The Great Terror'', whose title was an allusion to the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the Ministry of home affairs, interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Center For Russian And Eurasian Studies
The following is a list of academic research centers devoted to Russian studies, or Slavic studies, encompassing the area of the former Soviet Union, sometimes referred to as Eurasia: #Arizona State University The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies#Carleton University Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies#Columbia University - Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies #Dalian University of Foreign Languages - The Center for Russian Studies #Georgetown University - Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies #Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies(formerly Russian Research Center) #Hokkaido University - Slavic-Eurasian Research Center #Indiana University - Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center #Indiana University Bloomington - Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute #Ohio State University - Center for Slavic and East European Studies #Stanford Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyman John Harvard (clergyman), John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Harvard was founded and authorized by the Massachusetts General Court, the governing legislature of Colonial history of the United States, colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony. While never formally affiliated with any Religious denomination, denomination, Harvard trained Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational clergy until its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized in the 18th century. By the 19th century, Harvard emerged as the most prominent academic and cultural institution among the Boston B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirzoyan LI
Mirzoyan (), is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Mirzayan (born 1945), Russian singer-songwriter * Alexander Mirzoyan (born 1951), Soviet association football player * Arakel Mirzoyan (born 1989), Armenian weightlifter *Ararat Mirzoyan (born 1979), Armenian politician and Armenian First Deputy Prime Minister since May 2018 * Arayik Mirzoyan (born 1987), Armenian weightlifter *Arsen Mirzoyan (born 1978), Ukrainian singer *Edvard Mirzoyan (1921–2012), Armenian composer *Karen Mirzoyan, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012–2017) of the Artsakh Republic *Levon Mirzoyan (1897–1939), Soviet statesman * Oksen Mirzoyan (born 1961), Soviet weightlifter *Pharaon Mirzoyan (born 1949), Armenian painter See also * Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization, an Armenian-American organized crime group, mastermind of the 2010 Medicaid fraud A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Azerbaijan
The Azerbaijan Communist Party (; ) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on 20 February 1920, when the Muslim Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Persia, Ahrar Party and the Baku Bolsheviks joined together to establish the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. On 1 April of the same year, the Fifth Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic gave its resignations and all the power to the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. The party ruled the Azerbaijan SSR until 14 September 1991 when it was formally disbanded. Nevertheless, former leaders and members of the communists continued to play a role in the family- and patronage-based political system. The Communist Party of Azerbaijan won the first multi-party elections in Azerbaijan that took place on 30 September and 14 October 1990 for the Supreme Soviet, obtaining 280 out of 360 seats. First secretaries of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP) or the Russian Social Democratic Party (RSDP), was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk, Russian Empire. The party emerged from the merger of various Marxist groups operating under Tsarist repression, and was dedicated to the overthrow of the autocracy and the establishment of a socialist state based on the revolutionary leadership of the Russian proletariat. The RSDLP's formative years were marked by ideological and strategic disputes culminating at its Second Congress in 1903, where the party split into two main factions: the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, who advocated a tightly organized vanguard of professional revolutionaries; and the Mensheviks, led by Julius Martov and others, who favored a more moderate, broad-based model. During and in the years after the 1905 Revolution, the RSDLP operated both legally and underground, publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Famine Of 1930–1933
The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine and different parts of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia, including Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus Krai, Northern Caucasus, Kuban, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia. Major factors included the forced Collectivization in the Soviet Union, collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First five-year plan (Soviet Union), First Five-Year Plan and forced grain procurement from farmers. These factors in conjunction with a Industrialization of the Soviet Union, massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce. Estimates conclude that 5.7 to 8.7 million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union. In addition 50 to 70 million Soviet citizens starved during the famine yet survived. During this period General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakh Famine Of 1930–1933
The Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, also known as the Asharshylyk, was a famine during which approximately 1.5 million people died in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, then part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union, of whom 1.3 million were ethnic Kazakhs. An estimated 38 to 42 percent of all Kazakhs died, the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. Other research estimates that as many as 2.3 million died. A committee created by the Kazakhstan parliament chaired by historian Manash Kozybayev concluded that the famine was "a manifestation of the politics of genocide", with 1.75 million victims. The famine began in the winter of 1930, a full year before the famine in Ukraine, termed the Holodomor, which was at its worst in the years 1931–1933. The famine made Kazakhs a minority in the Kazakh ASSR; it caused the deaths or migration of large numbers of people, and it was not until the 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)
The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; , ) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR. Origin The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936, when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status within the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. April 24, 1990 from Art. 6 of the Constitution of the Kazakh SSR, the provision on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan on power was excluded. Post-Soviet restructuring The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, held on September 7, 1991, decided to dissolve the party. The Socialist Party of Kazakhstan, Socialist Party was created on its basis. Nursultan Nazarbayev, chairman of the party, resigned after the failure of the August putsch in Moscow. Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at the 19th Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
