Tambov Rebellion

The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1921 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War. The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and part of the Voronezh Oblast, less than 480 kilometres (300 mi) southeast of Moscow.

Komsomol direction

The Komsomol direction or Komsomol travel ticket was a document of mobilization in the Soviet Union issued by a Komsomol committee to a Komsomol member which directed the member for temporary or permanent shock construction projects or military service

State Defense Committee

The State Defense Committee was an extraordinary organ of state power in the USSR during the German-Soviet War which held complete state power in the country

Purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security organs to get rid of "undesirables

Informal romanizations of Cyrillic

Informal or ad hoc romanizations of Cyrillic have been in use since the early days of electronic communications, starting from early e-mail and bulletin board systems. Their use faded with the advances in the Russian internet that made support of Cyrillic

Borbysts

Borbysts a brief name for the Ukrainian Party of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. The exact date of establishment of the party is unknown, while its main newspaper "Trudovaya mysl" declared for its appearance for the first time in February–March 1918

Proton-dependent oligopeptide transporter

Proteins of the Proton-dependent Oligopeptide Transporter (POT) Family are found in animals, plants, yeast, archaea and both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and are part of the major facilitator superfamily. The transport of peptides into cells

Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising

Aleksandrovsk Uprising was an armed insurgency of workers of the Aleksandrovsk city on 25 December 1917. The uprising was headed by Bolsheviks against the Central Council of Ukraine

Ukrainian Party of Socialist Independists

Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Independists was a Ukrainian political party created on December 17, 1917 in Kiev at the Party Congress and consisted from some member of the Popular Ukrainian Party, socialist-independists, independent socialist

Person of Jewish ethnicity

Person of Jewish ethnicity is а Russian euphemism that was invented as a supposedly politically correct alternative term for an ethnic Jew. It was invented because the word "Jew" became pejorative during Soviet antisemitic campaigns

List of voivodes of Nizhyn

This is the list of voivodes of Nizhyn. A Nizhyn voivode was a Muscovite military position in Cossack Hetmanate.Ivan Rzhevskiy (1665–1672) Stepan Khruscheov (1672–1673) Prince Vladimir Volkonskiy (1673–1675) Prince Semeon Zvenigorodskiy (1673–1675