Questions tagged [russia]
For questions about the Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, RSFSR, and the Russian Federation (between 1547 and present day). For questions about Kievan Rus (880-1240), use [kievan-rus]. For questions about the Mongol Yoke and Duchy of Muscovy (1240-1547), use [medieval-russia]; for questions about territories of Ukraine and Belarus during that time period use [ruthenia].
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What was the practical difference between Russian secret police functions being organized as part of the chancery versus a ministry?
Researching the Third Section which was organized under the Tsar's chancery. I get the benefit of setting up a parallel organization outside of the culture and hierarchy of existing institutions but ...
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What was Russia's population history?
I want to ask a question about the history of Russia's population size. I have been watching Gozhda's YouTube channel and it seems to show the Russian population as originally very tiny in ancient ...
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Where can I find information about the commune between Sochi and Khosta that was closed in 1929?
In The Gulag Archipelago (by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translation by Thomas P. Whitney) one can find the following lines:
Non-Orthodox sects were also under constant attack, even those sympathetic to ...
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How should a new historian go about arranging an archive visit?
I am writing my dissertation about the links between political economy and international relations in the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire in the first half of the reign of Catherine the ...
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Did the Russian Empire promote anti-Semitism to distract from failings of the state?
When I was studying history in school, my textbook offhandedly mentioned that the Russian Government incited anti-Jewish pogroms in 1892 to shift blame away from the Government's failed handling of ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices? [duplicate]
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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Were Karl Witte and Sergei Witte related?
Karl Witte (1800-1883) was the German jurist and Dante scholar who famously had a strong education from his father from a young age and got his doctorate at 12 or 13.
Sergei Witte (1849-1915) was a ...
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Have there been irredentist movements seeking the return of territory from Belarus to Russia?
The first few decades of the Soviet Union saw a number of adjustments to its internal borders. Perhaps the most famous of these was the 1954 transfer of the Crimean Oblast (formerly the Crimean ...
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Does the lack of action in Brusílov offensive have anything to do with Rasputín dream? [closed]
I have read ( Carlos Canales, Tormenta Roja ) that Brusílov great battle ended up in a disaster for the Russian empire because of Russian army did not decide to attack at some precise moment. And that'...
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What was the nature of the offered "negotiations about East Prussia" in 1990?
According to an article in Der Spiegel from 2010, during the negotiations for the Two Plus Four Agreement about German unity in 1990, the negotiator for the Soviet Union, Geli Batenin, offered ...
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Why was Russia's transition into capitalism so horrible and filled with suffering for the people? [closed]
I have recently found out that Russia had around 1000% inflation during the 90s. Obviously, it seems related to the fall of communism.
However, I also realized that China's transition to capitalism ...
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Was "Hadji" part of Hadji Murad's name?
Very simple question about the historical figure Hadji Murad (also spelled Murat): was "Hadji" an honorific, indicating that he had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, or was it actually given to ...
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What usually happens to a country's leadership when a dictator dies? [closed]
I don't know how succession happened in Soviet Russia, but I remember a succession of leaders, and they all appeared to be by election — although those elections may have been rigged. Were they?
My ...
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Is the 2024 Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region the first time since WW2 Russia was invaded?
It's widely claimed that the 2024 Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region is the first time since WW2 Russia was invaded:
France24:
Ukraine's incursion, the first on Russian soil since World War II
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Bismarck urged not to hinder Russia from going deeper into the "oriental dead end." What did he mean by "oriental dead end?"
In his letter of 03 May 1888, Otto von Bismarck, the then-Chancellor of Germany, wrote to Prince Heinrich VII Reuß, the then-Ambassador of Germany to Austria-Hungary:
Durch einen Angriff auf das ...
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