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…changed the calendar so the New Year would be January 1. He increased agriculture by growing new crops and increased the number of factories in Russia. He also started the first Russian newspaper and enlarged their army to 200,000 men. He also got a warm water…

…Jànos Bolyai Back in 19th century, two extremely intelligent mathematicians, the Hungarian Jànos Bolyai and the Russian Nicolai Lobechevsky, showed that one could throw out Euclid’s parallel postulate and come up with a weird yet consistent form…

…Marie Curie Maire Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Her parents were both teachers, her father a teacher of math and physics. However working in Russian Poland and being polish he wasn't paid very well. As a young child Marie…

…in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he…

…whole factories. On the whole, however, industrialization spread more slowly there, and the Russian economy remained overwhelmingly agricultural for a long time. Even in largely industrialized areas, such as western Europe and the United States, some areas…

…surrendered to the U.S. in order to preserve what was left of the country. In 1949, scientists believed that only the United States had the resources to produce nuclear bombs, in fact they were wrong. During that year on August 29, Russian scientists introduced its…

…, was that “Stalin was pursuing Russian national interests that dated back to the czars.” Others, however, accused the president and Congress “of following a consistent policy of economic imperialism, “ tracing it back to the “Open Door Diplomacy of the nineteenth century…

…-Lorraine back from Germany. German nationalists wanted to extend control and power. Russian nationalists wanted to unite the Serbs and to protect them. This was just one of the many causes of war. As you can see, there was no avoiding the war. Even if you…

…occurred among its leaders. Some, like Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao, were beginning to be influenced by the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which contrasted sharply with the failure of the 1911 Revolution in China to change the social order…

…“In the early hours of the day after tomorrow, I shall either be the sovereign or a corpse.” As Czar Nicholas stated, the Russian government’s knowledge of an uprising planned to occur on the following day of Monday December 14, 1825 was quite…