The end of the play about how the nearest entourage of the head of state, political and military elite, the main support of the Emperor Nicholas II in the crucial year of the First World War, when the Russian Empire was a stone’s throw away from victory, organized a plot.

The play of how the nearest entourage of the head of state, political and military elite, the main support of the Emperor Nicholas II organized a plot in the crucial year of the First World War, when the Russian Empire was a stone’s throw away from victory.

The play of how the nearest entourage of the head of state, political and military elite, the main support of the Emperor Nicholas II organized a plot in the crucial year of the First World War, when the Russian Empire was a stone’s throw away from victory.

When deciding on the intervention of Russia in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict in August 2008, Medvedev and Putin faced a difficult choice: not to interfere meant “losing a face”, to allow destabilization in the whole Caucasus, but to defend South Ossetia meant to take on a confrontation with the United States and NATO.

 Young economists the Yeltsin government were forced to play the role of the counter-revolution demons, breaking the dead Soviet economy before the very eyes of amazed people.

The Soviet power has traversed the great and tragic path and became the history. Its collapse was rapid and unexpected.

The struggle for the role of successor was held between Gorbachev, who at that time represented the party apparatus, and Romanov, who was supervising the military-industrial complex. Romanov lost, as most of the “Kremlin elders” did not want to strengthen the defense industry: the country was already enough militarized. Moderate reformers were required and Gorbachev seemed to be just like this.

Simultaneously with Khrushchev’s removal ended the heroic period of the Soviet Union. Henceforth, a new period began, the content of which was to try to avoid the looming ideological and economic crisis.

The socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union did not appear as a relapse of the world revolution, but as a defensive reaction of Moscow after theoretical errors of the Soviet leadership and hard resistance of the West.

The Kremlin was left no choice but to return to a policy of “colonization of the village”, which was held earlier by S.J. Vitte while realizing industrialization — in other ways it was repeated in the 1930-s. But from 1947 till 1949 a series of measures were undertaken that made the peasants’ situation mournful.