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Radek, Karl

(Encyclopedia) Radek, KarlRadek, Karlkärl räˈdyĭk [key], 1885–1939?, international Communist leader and journalist, b. Lviv (then in Austrian Poland); his original name was Sobelsohn. Radek…

Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich

(Encyclopedia) Bukharin, Nikolai IvanovichBukharin, Nikolai Ivanovichnyĭkəlīˈ ēväˈnəvĭch b&oomacr;khäˈrēn [key], 1888–1938, Russian Communist leader and theoretician. A member of the Bolshevik…

newspaper

(Encyclopedia) newspaper, publication issued periodically, usually daily or weekly, to convey information and opinion about current events. In England large newspaper-publishing empires were…

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(Encyclopedia) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was…