Russia Revolution

Mr. Vishinsky s proposal to repeal the First Amendment may find support in some quarters in this country. The Numbers trial crowd. . . should welcome it. The Vishinsky proposal would provide a sort of legislative endorsement. .. of the indictment under which the Nazi leaders were judicially murdered. With these exceptions, it seems most improbable that the Soviet Revolution will be taken seriously outside Russia. 

Mendeleev died too soon to witness the far more violent revolution in 1917. In the fall of 1906 he fell ill. He was diagnosed with influenza, and he went to Cannes in southern France to recuperate. At first he seemed to have recovered, but symptoms of his illness began to reappear after he returned to Russia. Matters became worse in January 1907 when he contracted pneumonia, and during the early hours of January 20 he died. 

It was at his brother s home that the Czar had taken refuge and was assassinated at the time of the revolution in Russia. 

Professor Komarewsky was born in Moscow in 1895. With characteristic acceptance of the vicissitudes of fate, he let neither service in a bomber squadron in the Imperial Russian Navy nor the turmoil of a bloody social revolution interrupt his early scientific education and development in Russia and Germany. He was particularly fortunate in his associations with two of the great masters of catalysis. First, as a pupil of N. D. Zelinsky, he received an invaluable indoctrination in catalysis, particularly in regard to dehydrogenation and low-pressure reactions. Second, as a fellow worker with V. N. Ipatieff, he became familiar with high-pressure techniques applied to catalytic reactions. 

He was born in Moscow on May 18, 1915 at the time of World War I. Russia was still a monarchy, ruled by Emperor Nicholas II. Nikolay lived through two revolutions, Democratic and Bolshevik, the Civil War, establishment of the USSR, Stalin s dictatorship, and World War II, during which time he spent six years in the army and at the front. He then relaunched his scientific career from level zero, worked through the period of developed socialism , Gorbachev s perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of a new Russia. His was quite a long and eventful life. .. 

The family to which Nikolay was born had a small textile business not far from Moscow. His father Konstantin was educated in Russia and Germany as a chemical engineer, and was expected to develop the family business. This did not happen, because all property was confiscated after the Bolshevik revolution. The only thing that his parents could do for Nikolay and his younger brother Alexander (Shura) was to help them to receive the best possible education. 

In this context, it was claimed that eastern European Jewry would face a Holocaust if they did not receive massive aid. With such claims, millions of dollars were raised in the United States, which at the end were probably used to finance the Bolshevic revolution in Russia. 

Weiner, Douglas. R. 2000 [1998]. Models of Nature Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press. 

My parents were immigrants from Russia. My father was studying to be a rabbi, but he decided not to be ordained and he became a militant atheist. His family was rather wealthy in Russia and he was the only member of his family who came to this country when he was 21 years old. My mother, on the other hand, came with her family to America when she was 17 years old. It was soon after the unsuccessful Russian revolution of 1905. I never found out exactly why they left Russia, because they never talked about it, but I know there were pogroms against the Jews in Russia at that time. They were middle class, but their financial situation was deteriorating. One of my aunts was very angry with my grandmother because under financial stress, she kept the maid, but sold the cow, and there was no milk for her. My parents had known each other in Europe, but got married in America, and I was born in New York City. 

Pf sico-mathematical Department, Bashkir State Pedagogical University October Revolution Str. 3a, 450000 Ufa, Russia... 

Once Luxemburg began thinking of the revolution as analogous to a complex natural process, she concluded that the role of a vanguard party was inevitably limited. Such processes are far too complicated to be well understood, let alone directed or planned in advance. She was deeply impressed by the autonomous popular initiatives taken all over Russia after the shooting of the crowd before the Winter Palace in 1905. Her description, which I quote at length, invokes metaphors from nature to convey her conviction that centralized control is an illusion. 

Orlando Figes, Peasant Russia, Civil War The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921 (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1989), chap. 6, The Rural Economy Under War Communism."... 

Paul Walden (1863-1957) was born in Cesis, Latvia, to German parents who died while he was still a child. He received his Ph.D. in Leipzig, Germany, and returned to Russia as professor of chemistry at Riga Polytechnic (1882-1919). Following the Russian Revolution, he went back to Germany as professor at the University of Rostock (1919-1934) and later at the University of Tubingen. 

If Germany had been forced to surrender in 1915, Lenin might never have made it back to Russia from exile in Switzerland. The Bolshevik revolution might never have happened, or it might have taken a milder course. Germany, too, would have been much less likely to descend into economic chaos and political bloodletting. In the absence of Fritz Haber, in other words, we might never have heard the names Hitler and Stalin. 

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