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(Encyclopedia) Gulag, system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym [GULag] for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (…Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia) Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavia: see Moldova.Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia) Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic or Kirghizia: see Kyrgyzstan.Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic
(Encyclopedia) Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic or Tadzhikistan: see Tajikistan.Nitze, Paul Henry
(Encyclopedia) Nitze, Paul HenryNitze, Paul Henrynĭtˈsə [key], 1907–2004, American public official, b. Amherst, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1927. After working in investment banking, he entered government…Nagy, Imre
(Encyclopedia) Nagy, ImreNagy, Imreĭmˈrĕ nôj, nŏdˈyə [key], 1896–1958, Hungarian Communist leader. Nagy was a symbol of the 1956 Hungarian revolt against the Soviet Union. As an agricultural expert…Rostropovich, Mstislav
(Encyclopedia) Rostropovich, MstislavRostropovich, Mstislavmĭsˈtĭslävˌ rŏsˌtrəpôˈvyĭch [key], 1927–2007, Russian cellist, pianist, and conductor. He made his cello debut in 1940 and his conducting…Ryazanov, Eldar Aleksandrovich
(Encyclopedia) Ryazanov, Eldar Aleksandrovich, 1927–2015, Russian film director and screenwriter, b. Samara, grad. State Institute of Cinematography (1950). Probably Russia's most popular filmmaker,…Oder-Neisse line
(Encyclopedia) Oder-Neisse line, frontier established in 1945 between Germany and Poland; it followed the Oder and W Neisse rivers from the Baltic Sea to the Czechoslovak border. The boundary,…Genoa, Conference of
(Encyclopedia) Genoa, Conference of, 1922, at Genoa, Italy. Representatives of 34 nations convened on Apr. 10 to attempt the reconstruction of European finance and commerce. It was the first…Trending
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