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1800
1804

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1825

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1842
1844

Go to Engels, Friedrich (1820–95) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1845
1847
1848

Go to Communist Manifesto in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Noyes, John Humphrey (1811–86) in The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists (1 ed.)

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1849
1864

Go to International1 in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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1867
1887

Go to Alexander III (1845–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1889

Go to International1 in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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1895

Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1870–1924) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1900

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1902

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1903

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1905

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1912

Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (22 Apr. 1870) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1917

Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (22 Apr. 1870) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Russian Revolution (1917) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.)

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Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (22 Apr. 1870) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1918

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Go to Communist Party in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.)

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Go to Brest‐Litovsk, Treaty of (3 Mar. 1918) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1919

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1920

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1921

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Go to New Economic Policy in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Mao Zedong (26 Dec. 1893) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1922

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Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (22 Apr. 1870) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Soviet Union in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (22 Apr. 1870) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1923

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1924

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1927

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Go to Northern Expedition (1926–28) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Trotsky, Leon (1879–1940) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1928

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Go to Stalin, Joseph (1879–1953) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1929

Go to Trotsky, Leon (1879–1940) in A Dictionary of Sociology (3 rev ed.)

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c. 1931

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1934

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Go to Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (28 Mar. 1886) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Tito, Josip Broz (1892–1980) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1935

Go to Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (28 Mar. 1886) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Kim Il Sung (1912–1994) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1936

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Go to Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich (1906–75) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1937

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1938

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1940

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Go to Tito, Josip Broz (1892–1980) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1941

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1943

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1944

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Go to Rakosi, Matyas (1892–1971) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Budapest, siege of in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.)

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1945

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Go to Groza, Petru (1884) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Tito, Josip (b. 25 May 1892) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1946

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Go to Hoxha, Enver (16 Oct. 1908) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1947

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Go to Truman Doctrine in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.)

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1948

Go to Gottwald, Klement (b. 23 Nov. 1896) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Kim Il Sung (1912–1994) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–1949) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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1949

Go to Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Germany in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1950

Go to McCarthy, Joseph Raymond (b. 14 Nov. 1908) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1953

Go to Stalin, Iosef Vissarioniovich in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Nagy, Imre (7 June 1896) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to nuclear bomb in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.)

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1954

Go to McCarthy, Joseph Raymond (b. 14 Nov. 1908) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Oppenheimer, Robert (1904–67) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to domino theory in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.)

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1955

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1956

Go to Khrushchev, Nikita (1894–1971) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Hungary in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.)

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Go to Hungary in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.)

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Go to Castro Ruz, Fidel (13 Aug. 1926) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1957

Go to Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich (b. 5 Apr) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1958

Go to Kádár, János (b. 26 May 1912) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio (1901–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1959

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1960

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1961

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1962


1963

Go to Pol Pot (b. 19 May 1928) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1964

Go to Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich (1906–1982) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaevich (1904–1980) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1966

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Go to Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich (1906–1982) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Cultural Revolution in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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1967

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1968

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Go to Prague Spring in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Prague Spring in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Dubček, Alexander (27 Nov. 1921) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1969

Go to Husák, Gustáv (b. 10 Jan. 1913) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1970

Go to Allende, Salvador (b. 26 July 1908) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1971

Go to Honecker, Erich (b. 25 Aug. 1912) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1973

Go to Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (1918–2008) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1975

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1979

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1980

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Go to Wałesa, Lech (1943– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1981

Go to Jaruzelski, Wojciech Witold (b. 6 July 1923) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Deng Xiaoping (22 Aug. 1904) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Jaruzelski, Wojciech Witold (b. 6 July 1923) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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1982

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Go to Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (19 Dec. 1906) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1985

Go to Gorbachev, Mikhail S. (1931– ) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1988

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1989

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Go to Honecker, Erich (25 Aug. 1912) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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Go to Berlin Wall in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Velvet Revolution (1989) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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Go to Ceauçescu, Nicolae (1918–1989) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Havel, Václav (5 Oct. 1936) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1990

Go to Yeltsin, Boris (1931–2007) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Wałęsa, Lech (29 Sept. 1943) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1991

Go to Yeltsin, Boris (1931–2007) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Yeltsin, Boris (1931–2007) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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Go to Somalia in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Commonwealth of Independent States in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.)

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Go to Yeltsin, Boris Nikolaevich (1 Feb. 1931) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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